of a dissertation at the University of Miami. Dissertation supervised by Zafar Nawaz, Ph.D. No. of pages in text. (92) Angelman syndrome (AS) is a complex genetic disorder that affects the nervous system. AS affects an estimated 1 in 12,000 to 20,000 individuals. Characteristic features of AS includes developmental delay or intellectual disability, severe speech impairment, seizures, small head...

Authors Angela N. Bartley, MD, FCAP Department of Pathology, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI Stanley R. Hamilton, MD, FCAP Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX Randa Alsabeh, MD, FCAP Beverly Hills, CA Edward P. Ambinder, MD Department of Medicine (Medical Oncology and Hematology), Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School...

Variable selection in regression analysis is of vital importance for data analyst and researcher to fit the parsimonious regression model. With the inundation of large number of predictor variables and large data sets requiring analysis and empirical modeling, contamination becomes usual problem. Accordingly, robust regression estimators are designed to easily fit contaminated data sets. In the...

background: the advances in treatment regimes for thalassemic patients have increased the survival among them therefore osteoporosis has emerged as an important cause of morbidity. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of osteoporosis and osteopenia in patients with thalassemia from zafar adult thalassemia clinic, tehran, iran. patients and methods: in this cross sectional inves...

Current World Wide Web means to display pages to end user, while the Semantic Web is a vision of a next-generation network focuses on "Meaning" instead of merely pasting arbitrary text on a page. An intelligent software agents use information to organize and filter data to meet the user's needs. DAML+OIL and Web Ontology Language OWL are the current environments to create Ontology over RDF and ...

INTRODUCTION Major thalassemia patients need lifelong transfusions. The consequence of these repeated transfusions is iron accumulation in different organs. The main aim of the present study was to investigate the correlation between heart, liver and pancreas hemosiderosis in thalassemic patients from Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on 164 major thalassemia patients at ...

Background: The advances in treatment regimes for thalassemic patients have increased the survival among them therefore osteoporosis has emerged as an important cause of morbidity. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of osteoporosis and osteopenia in patients with thalassemia from Zafar Adult Thalassemia Clinic, Tehran, Iran. Patients and Methods: In this cross sectional inve...

The air traffic control (ATC) is safety, monetary and environmental critical system. Its failure may cause the loss of human life, severe injuries, loss of money and environmental issues. The complexity of such systems requires formal modeling and step by step design processes. In this paper we investigate the use of formal method VDM++ to specify and verify the arrival procedure of aircrafts. ...

Department of Pharmacology, Efforts to discover and develop new antimalarial drugs have increased dramatically in recent Maulana Azad Medical College, years mainly because of resistance to existing antimalarial drugs. Selection of candidate drugs Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, for clinical trials in man and the design of clinical protocols are based upon consideration of Delhi110002. data from a batt...