temperature is one of the most important climate variables that many economic and social plans related to its changes. because of the importance of this issue, this study investigated the changes of it in the province khuzestan. meteorological data that used in this study is mean temperature in annual and seasonal timescale. the study area is abadan, ahwaz, dezful and omidiye stations. for anal...

PURPOSE To evaluate morphologic changes in meibomian glands (MGs) and the status of periglandular inflammation in patients with primary and secondary Sjögren's Syndrome (SS) using in vivo confocal laser microscopy (LSCM). METHODS Twenty patients with primary SS (SSI), 25 with secondary SS (SSII), 20 with MG dysfunction (MGD), and 25 age- and gender-matched control subjects were enrolled conse...

Proof. This theorem is a corollary of the (much more general) Kruskal-Katona theorem. The Kruskal-Katona theorem has a very hands-on proof, based on iteratively modifying the graph. We will see a linear-algebraic proof. Let A be the n×n adjacency matrix of G (Auv = 1 if vertex u is adjacent to vertex v, and Auv = 0 otherwise). Note that A is symmetric. It turns out that e and t are both fundame...

Calculating the statistical linear response of turbulent dynamical systems to the change in external forcing is a problem of wide contemporary interest. Here the authors apply linear regression models with memory, AR(p) models, to approximate this statistical linear response by directly fitting the autocorrelations of the underlying turbulent dynamical system without further computational exper...

When nonparametric statistical tests are used to rank-order a list of alternatives, Simpsonlike paradoxes arise, in which the individual parts give rise to a common decision, but the aggregate of those parts gives rise to a different decision. Haunsperger (Haunsperger 2003) and Bargagliotti (Bargagliotti, submitted manuscript, 2008) have shown that the KruskalWallis (Kruskal and Wallis 1952), M...

Let {X1, . . . , Xm} and {Y1, . . . , Yn} be two samples independent of each other, but the random variables within each sample are stationary associated with one dimensional marginal distribution functions F and G, respectively. We study the properties of the classical WilcoxonMann-Whitney statistic for testing for stochastic dominance in the above set up.

This study evaluated the influence of irrigation tip, root canal curvature and final apical diameter on periapical debris and irrigant extrusion during root canal instrumentation. After being classified as mildly or moderately curved, the mesiobuccal root canals of 90 human molars were instrumented. The teeth were allocated into three groups according to the used needle type: a flat open-end ne...