Introduction: Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) or Human Herpes Virus Type-5(HHV-5) is a member of herpesviridae placed in subtype beta herpesvirinae. CMV is a ubiquitous pathogenic virus and can infect humans all through their life. Prevalence of CMV infection in developed countries is about 45% and in developing countries it varies up to 100%. CMV infection during pregnancy is very important, beca...

Background & Aims of the Study: Drinking polluted water can transmit diseases, so potable water treatment is one of the most challenging and complex systems in countries. Continuous monitoring for evaluation process in water treatment plant is important. This study aims to investigate performance evaluation of Qom water treatment plant to remove turbidity and coliform in 2005 - 2014. Materia...

abstract introduction: frequency of tramadol intoxication is increasing as a result of its use as a drug for suppression of withdrawal symptoms by opioids abusers and its wide accessibility of this drug. tramadol intoxication can lead to death and, therefore, early identification of its clinical manifestations is crucial since early detection of the intoxication and its treatment could improve ...

purpose: to describe the etiology, outcomes and complications of levator resection procedure for correction of congenital and acquired blepharoptosis. methods: in a retrospective nonrandomized study, medical records of 136 patients with blepharoptosis who underwent levator resection at labbafinejad medical center from 1995 to 2005 were evaluated. results: of 136 patients undergoing levator rese...

Laboratory studies were conducted to determine the effect of temperature and cold storage on the performance of Tetrastichus brontispae (Ferriere) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), one of the major endoparasitoids against coconut hispine beetle, Brontispa longissima (Gestro) (Coleptera: Chrysomelidae). The results revealed that T. brontispae could successfully parasitize host pupae under all seven tes...

The incorrect generic name Perisphaeria Burmeister, 1838 results from a mistake by Princis (1947). Perisphaeria is an incorrect spelling by Burmeister referring to Perisphaerus Serville, 1831. Princis (1947) incorrectly regarded Perisphaeria as proposed by Burmeister and as the senior synonym of Hyposphaeria Lucas, 1863, which is valid. The subfamilial name Perisphaeriinae based on Perisphaeria...

IT security incidents pose a major threat to the efficient execution of corporate strategies. Although, information security standards provide a holistic approach to mitigate these threats and legal acts demand their implementation, companies often refrain from the implementation of information security standards, especially due to high costs and the lack of evidence for a positive cost/benefit...

Compliance with law, industry standards, and corporate governance regulations are one of the driving factors for discovering security requirements. This paper aims to incorporate constraints from regulations through security requirements at an early stage of development. Constraints are extracted using a pattern based approach from legal texts of information security laws and policies derived f...

This paper describes different proposals made at UNED, for post-graduated students, at the area of IT Services Management and specially trying to fill the gap, of paramount importance, of the treatment due in ITIL® (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) to Information Security Management. We analyze the treatment given to Information Security Management in ITIL, both versions 2 and 3, ...