High compression of plant geometry is an important aspect in fast realistic visualization of plants. Hierarchical structuring plant morphology is a key factor for real time plant rendering, especially when pedestrian views, including both close-ups and far views, are requested. We present here a new geometric simplification method, called Viewdependent Hierarchical Foliage Simplification (VHFS)...

OBJECTIVES To analyse and compare the determinants of screening uptake for different National Health Service (NHS) health check-ups in the UK. DESIGN Individual-level analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys with balanced panel data. SETTING The UK. PARTICIPANTS Individuals taking part in the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), 1992-2008. OUTCOME MEASURE Uptake of NHS health chec...

Due to the importance effect of magnetic field on the history of long-term radial and circumfer-ential creep strain and radial displacement for a three-phase nano-composite exposed to an internal pressure and placed uniform temperature, the present article subject has been pro-posed. Three-phase nano-composite made of single-walled carbon nano tubes (SWCNTs)/ glass fiber (GF)/vinylester used to...

First time, an analytical two-dimensional (2D) elasticity solution for arbitrarily supported axially functionally graded (FG) beam is developed. Linear gradation of the material property along the axis of the beam is considered. Using the strain displacement and constitutive relations, governing partial differential equations (PDEs) is obtained by employing Ressiner mixed var...

As in all other mammalian tissues, the UPS (ubiquitin-proteasome system) is fundamental to normal brain function. A consistent feature of the major human neurodegenerative disorders is the accumulation of disease-related proteins, in non-native conformations, as protein aggregates within neurons or glial cells. Often the proteins in these aggregates are post-translationally conjugated with ubiq...

background: gold nanoparticles (gnps) have been shown as a good radiosensitizer. in combination with radiotherapy, several studies with orthovoltage x-rays have shown considerable dose enhancement effects. this paper reports the dose enhancement factor (def) due to gnps in 18 megavoltage (mv) beams. materials and methods: different geometrical 50-nm gnps configurations at a concentration of 5 m...

BACKGROUND Alexithymia is thought to be associated with the development of medically unexplained physical symptoms (UPS). So far little research has been published on alexithymia as a risk factor for the persistence of UPS. OBJECTIVE To determine the clinical outcome in UPS patients and to study the relative importance of alexithymia in predicting that outcome. METHODS A follow-up study was...

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره 21، اسفند 1401، 1228-1227 درآمدی بر اپیدمیولوژی عامیانه An Introduction to Lay Epidemiology محسن رضائیان[1] Mohsen Rezaeian واژه اپیدمیولوژی عامیانه برای اولین بار و در سال 1991 میلادی مورد استفاده قرار گرفت [1]. اپیدمیولوژی عامیانه (Lay epidemiology) به فرآیندی اطلاق می‌گردد که به وسیله آن خطرات مرتبط با سلامت، توسط ...

There have been important changes in the United Kingdom’s (UK) fertility and immigration in the past decade, with a large share contributed by migrants from Poland. A detailed understanding of Polish migrant fertility is lacking, however, because the relevant data are not routinely collected. This paper provides new insights into the fertility patterns of Polish migrants in the UK, and compares...