the present study tries to find out the role and procedure of gender attitudes in genesis of women’s body image among women under cosmetic surgery in shiraz. research method in this investigation has been qualitative through grounded theory. based on purposive sampling 24 women who had the experience of cosmetic surgery during the year 2008 in shiraz were selected for an in depth interview. to ...

With the advent of multi-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner and the sophisticated CT reconstruction algorithm, CT Angiography (CTA) is increasingly used to evaluate patient with vascular diseases (Fleischmann et al., 2006; Chow & Rubin, 2002; Rubin at al., 2001). It has many advantages over the conventional catheter angiograms: 1) non-invasiveness, 2) short acquisition time, 3) multiple vie...

We describe our approach to the ImageCLEF Photo and WikiMediaMM 2008 tasks. The novelty of our method consists of combining image segment based image retrieval with our text based approach. We rank text hits by our own Okapi BM25 based information retrieval system and image similarities by using a feature vector describing the visual content of image segments. Images were segmented by a home de...

s Presented at National or International Scientific Conferences: Altman MB, Vesper BJ, Smith BD, Stinauer, MA, Pelizzari CA, Aydogan B, Radosevich JA, Chmura SJ, Roeske JC. Dosimetric Characterization and Biological Validation of a Novel Phantom for Three-Dimensional IMRT-Based in Vitro Experiments. Med Phys. 35(6): 2816. 2008 Hoggarth MA, Stinauer MA, Altman MB, Roeske JC. Automated Colony Cou...

Interpreting pixel values as averages over abutting squares mimics the image capture process. Average Matching (AM) exact area resampling involves the construction of a surface with averages given by the pixel values; the surface is then averaged over new pixel areas. AM resampling approximately preserves local averages (error bounds are given). Also, original images are recovered by box filter...

Late-Breaking Basic Science Abstracts: From the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2008, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 8–12, 2008 1493 Author Index 1502 On the cover: Image shows an epicardial explant from an embryonic day 12.5 PDGFR GFP mouse heart after 5 days in culture. Immunofluorescence for -catenin (red) demonstrates epicardial cell boundaries, and nuclear-localized green ...

Phylogenetic analysis and assessment of the species status of mostly isolated populations of Pholidoptera frivaldszkyi in south-western Russia occurring far beyond the accepted area of the species distribution in the Carpathian-Balkan region were performed. Using the mitochondrial DNA cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene fragment, we found a very low level of genetic diversity in these populatio...

many brook stickleback, Eucalia inconstans, from the English Coulee, a small stream in Grand Forks, were found infected with an unrecorded species of diplostomulum metacercaria; its life cycle has been reported in abstract (Hoffman, 1955). In 1953, 51 (82%) of the 62 sticklebacks examined were infected, but in 1955 a much smaller number was infected ; no exact records were kept in 1954 and 1955...

Pulmonary parasitism by pentastomids was examined in two lizard species inhabiting an area of restinga vegetation (coastal sand dunes) situated in the municipality of Mataraca (6 degrees 29' S and 34 degrees 56' W), on the extreme northern coast of Paraíba State, Brazil. A total of 123 lizards were collected, being 75 specimens of Micrablepharus maximiliani (Gymnophtalmidae) and 48 specimens of...

BACKGROUND In northern Vietnam the Neonatal health - Knowledge Into Practice (NeoKIP, Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN44599712) trial has evaluated facilitation as a knowledge translation intervention to improve neonatal survival. The results demonstrated that intervention sites, each having an assigned group including local stakeholders supported by a facilitator, lowered the neonatal mortalit...