OBJECTIVE To perform an in depth evaluation of children, and thus provide a systematic method of managing children, who after infantile health screening, were categorized as suspected developmental delay. METHOD 78 children referred to the Developmental Delay Clinic of Ilsan Hospital after suspected development delay on infantile health examinations were enrolled. A team comprised of a physia...

A new maize (Zea mays L.) simulation model, Hybrid-Maize, was developed by combining the strengths of two modeling approaches: the growth and development functions in maize-specific models represented by CERES-Maize, and the mechanistic formulation of photosynthesis and respiration in generic crop models such as INTERCOM and WOFOST. It features temperature-driven maize phenological development,...

OBJECTIVE A prospective study was designed to analyze risk factors and clinical features in children with global developmental delay (GDD) at our hospital. No previous data is available on GDD from Oman. METHODS This study was conducted at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital from January 2008 until June 2009. All the children aged 5 years or less, referred with suspected GDD were included in th...

In this study, we analyzed the relationship between days after planting or growing degree (GDD) and number of labor hours spent on stem training, pruning, harvesting sweet pepper cultivated in commercial glass greenhouses. A model was developed for estimating according to plant height. three large-scale (>1 ha) greenhouse sites (1, 2, 3), weekly growth height, fruit, yield were measured manuall...

In this study, the authors study a two-user Gaussian doubly dirty compound multiple-access channel with partial side information (GDD-CMAC-PSI) where two independent additive interference signals are considered, each one known noncausally and partially to one of the encoders but unknown to either of the receivers. This channel, first, can model two users communicating with two base stations suf...

In tennis, the relative positioning of players on court constrains their opportunities to perform successful actions. In this study we proposed and validated an empirical function that captures the spatial-temporal relationship between tennis players during competitive performance. This parameter, termed goal-directed displacement index (GDD Index), is defined over time by the product of both p...

Objective: This study aims to report a case of Glaucoma Drainage Device (GDD) implant surgery in patient who experienced an increase Intraocular Pressure (IOP) after long term trabeculectomy. Case Presentation: A 58-year-old male came with complaint blurred vision since two years ago. Patient did not complain sore and red eyes. He was given 2 x 250 mg Acetazolamide, 1 tablet Aspar K, right left...

a total of twenty local and foreign maize (zea mays l.) hybrids in five different maturity group were studied in mashhad for two years (2007-2008). temperature variations were created by two planting dates (5 may and 20 may). results indicated that both indices, gdd and chu, estimated heat units of different maturity hybrids and based on, created similar groups of hybrids. both indices showed s...

We demonstrate the synergistic use of surface air temperature retrieved from AMSR-E (Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on Earth observing satellite) and two vegetation indices (VIs) from the shorter wavelengths of MODIS (MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) to characterize cropland phenology in the major grain production areas of Northern Eurasia from 2003–2010. We selected 49 AM...

We demonstrate the theoretical and experimental results of using a single prism in the rapid-scanning optical delay line of an optical coherence tomography (OCT) system for compensating the mismatches of the firstand second-order group delay dispersion (GDD) between the reference and sample arms. The analytical expressions for the firstand second-order GDD are derived based on the typically des...