52 β- thalassemia major patients were studied. their ages ranged from two to 20 years. the group consisted of 22 girls and 30 boys. candida intracellular killing and nbt (nitroblue tetrazolium) tests were performed on the peripheral blood neutrophils of these patients. average results of the intracellular killing test was within normal range for the patients, but showed an appreciable decrease ...

JavaScript poses significant challenges for points-to analysis, particularly due to its flexible object model in which object properties can be created and deleted at run-time and accessed via first-class names. These features cause an increase in the worst-case running time of fieldsensitive Andersen-style analysis, which becomes O(N), where N is the program size, in contrast to the O(N) bound...

We extend the classic online ski rental problem, so that the rental price may change over time. We consider several models which differ in the knowledge given to the algorithm: whereas the price development is unknown, an algorithm may have full, partial or no knowledge about the duration of the game. We construct algorithms whose competitive ratios are up to constant or logarithmic factors opt...

String-based negative selection is an immune-inspired classification scheme: Given a self-set S of strings, generate a set D of detectors that do not match any element of S. Then, use these detectors to partition a monitor set M into self and non-self elements. Implementations of this scheme are often impractical because they need exponential time in the size of S to construct D. Here, we consi...

to standardize the neuroticism, extroversion, openness personality inventory (neo pi-r), the persian version of the test was prepared and administered to a group of shiraz residents (n = 502). the means and standard deviations for the five main scales and the total 30 subscales are reporteed in this paper. the results of analysis for internal consistency and correlation coefficient showed high ...