BACKGROUND Transient hypertension (TH) and preeclampsia (PE) are believed to have different pathophysiology. However, 15-25% of pregnant women initially diagnosed as having TH develop PE. To clarify the immuno-pathogenetical connections between the two syndromes, we studied the pattern of T helper cell (Th)1/Th2 cytokine balance disturbances existing inside maternal decidua in normal pregnancy ...

BACKGROUND The TH-MYCN transgenic mouse is the most widely used murine model of human neuroblastoma, in which a human MYCN oncogene is targeted to neuroectodermal cells of developing mice under the influence of the rat tyrosine hydroxylase promoter. So far, homozygous transgenic mice have been identified by either Southern blot or quantitative real-time PCR. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS To establish a ...

Time Headway (TH) is a microscopic variable in traffic flow theories that has been studied since the 1930s. Distribution of this fundamental variable describes the arrival pattern of vehicles in traffic flow, so probabilistic modeling is the main approach to study TH and represents driving behavior. The applications of the variable in traffic engineering are varied ; include capacity calculatio...

In th is paper we propos e a method for generating fract al patterns using "classical" cellular automata. Although the prob lem of fractal generat ion for linear cellular automata has been st udied recently, this is not t he case for classical cellular automata. We first exhibit some basic techniques for the construction of the tr ansit ion function , which draws a Cantor set, and show how this...

The traffic networks reflect the pulse and structure of a city and shows some dynamic characteristic. Previous research in mining structure from networks mostly focus on static networks and fail to exploit the temporal patterns. In this paper, we aim to solve the problem of discovering the urban spatio-temporal structure from time-evolving traffic networks. We model the time-evolving traffic ne...

A simple and sensitive spectrophotometric method was developed and validated for the determination of Theophylline (TH) in pharmaceutical dosage form as well as in human saliva and urine samples. This method is based on the measurement of absorbance of TH in Phosphate Buffer 6.8 at 270 nm. Beer’s law is obeyed over the range of 2-10 μg/ml. This method was used successfully for the quality asses...

In this paper we introduce the root of a fuzzy number, and we present aniterative method to nd it, numerically. We present an algorithm to generatea sequence that can be converged to n-th root of a fuzzy number.

the present study was carried out to evaluate three interpolation methods including weighted moving average (wma) with the power of 2 and 3, kriging and cokriging methods. data of 23 wells in mazandaran province were collected in fall and spring 2006. seven parameters including electrical conductivity (ec), ph, total dissolved solids (tds), sodium adsorption ratio (sar), total hardness (th), ch...