background: asthma is a multifactorial disease and its severity varies with the inflammatory grade. there are conflicting reports about the roles of trace elements in asthma. this study examined the effects of zinc (zn), copper (cu), and selenium (se) concentrations in sera of patients with allergic asthma attending ghaem hospital, mashhad, iran. methods: forty-nine patients, aged 10 to 50 year...

background: the method of proton induced x-ray emission (pixe) has been widely used as a sensitive technique to trace elemental analysis in both biological and medical fields. the sensitivity of this powerful method is in the order of ppm .the aim of this work is to analyze structural composition of 4 heavy trace elements with z greater than 24 (mn, fe, cu, zn) in two kinds of gallstones and to...

The formal methods, fault-tolerance, and cyber-security research communities explore models that differ from each other. The differences frustrate efforts at cross-community collaboration. Moreover, ignorance about these differences means the status quo is likely to persist. This paper discusses two of the key differences: (i) the trace-based semantic foundation for formal methods and (ii) the ...

Molecularly imprinted photonic polymers can serve as ideal sensing elements for efficiently creating cross-reactive sensor arrays. Based on this concept, a new method for sensitive and label-free detection of challenging PBDEs was developed, by which the direct detection and discrimination of trace levels of PBDEs against a high-background of interferents was achieved with 100% accuracy.

DRAMSys: A flexible DRAM Subsystem Design Space Exploration Framework Methodology for Rapid Accelerator Development Applied to Financial Applications A Reconfigurable Application Specific Instruction Set Processor. Adaptive processor architecture invited paperMichael Hübner, Diana Göhringer, Carsten Tradowsky, Jörg KAHRISMA: A novel Hypermorphic Reconfigurable-Instruction-Set Cross-architectura...

BACKGROUND Accurate diagnostic techniques for schistosomiasis are essential for prevalence determination and identification of positive patients. A point-of-care test for detecting schistosome circulating cathodic antigen (POC-CCA) has been evaluated for its accuracy in different endemic regions. This reagent strip/dipstick based assay has showed high sensitivity for individuals with high or mo...

background: proton induced x-ray emission (pixe) has been applied as reliable and improved techniques in this study to compare concentration of various trace elements in normal and abnormal varicose veins. materials and methods: five samples from normal veins and 13 samples from varicose veins bombarded by 2.0 mev energy proton beams produced by a van de graff accelerator in vacuum. two specime...

this study assesses the effect of major trace metals levels in wastewater discharges and sedimentfrom twenty four permanent and five semi-permanent wastewater drain outlets into the kuwait coast. theeffect of trace metals levels released from untreated wastewater discharges to euchelus asper, gastropod was also determined. results showed high trace metal levels in e. asper tissues, followed by ...

objective: considering the various evidences due to effects of trace elements on the outcome of pregnancy, we decided to assess the effect of these elements levels in maternal and cord serum on low birth weight. materials and methods: an analytical cross-sectional study was performed on 344 pregnant women in labour and their neonates in maryam, akbarabadi and vali-e-asr hospitals in tehran, ir...

hemodialysis is being implicated in the development of metabolic disturbances, as complications have been observed and the role of trace metals in their development has been questioned. in 78 renal failure patients who underwent hemodialysis, serum levels of zinc and copper were determined before and after first hemodialysis. acute and chronic renal failure patients were found to have lower ser...