BACKGROUND No reliable biochemical markers exist for the differentiation between iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and anemia of chronic disease (ACD) in the setting of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The aim of this study was to investigate the use of soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) and sTfR-ferritin (sTfR-F) index in the evaluation of anemia in patients with IBD. METHODS One hundred IBD pa...

Let G = (V,E) be a simple graph. An edge labeling f : E → {0, 1} induces a vertex labeling f : V → Z2 defined by f(v) ≡ ∑ uv∈E f(uv) (mod 2) for each v ∈ V , where Z2 = {0, 1} is the additive group of order 2. For i ∈ {0, 1}, let ef (i) = |f−1(i)| and vf (i) = |(f+)−1(i)|. A labeling f is called edge-friendly if |ef (1) − ef (0)| ≤ 1. If (G) = vf (1) − vf (0) is called the edge-friendly index o...

LetG=(V ,E) be a graph, a vertex labeling f : V → Z2 induces an edge labeling f ∗ : E → Z2 defined by f ∗(xy)=f (x)+f (y) for each xy ∈ E. For each i ∈ Z2, define vf (i)=|f−1(i)| and ef (i)=|f ∗−1(i)|. We call f friendly if |vf (1)− vf (0)| 1. The full friendly index set of G is the set of all possible values of ef (1)− ef (0), where f is friendly. In this note, we study the full friendly index...

Falcaria vulgaris is a member of Umbelliferae family and is used for treatment of stomach disorders in the folk medicines of the west of Iran. This study was designed to evaluate the gastroprotective effect of F. vulgaris extract on ethanol (%50) induced gastric ulcers in rat. Thirty five young white male rats were divided to five groups (7rats/ group).Three case groups received plant extract (...

The study of Schubert varieties in G/B has led to numerous advances in algebraic combinatorics and algebraic geometry. These varieties are indexed by elements of the corresponding Weyl group, an affine Weyl group, or one of their parabolic quotients. Often times, the goal is to determine which of the algebraic and topological properties of the Schubert variety can be described in terms of the c...

The mod 2 Steenrod algebra A and Dyer-Lashof algebra R have both striking similarities and differences, arising from their common origins in “lower-indexed” algebraic operations. These algebraic operations and their relations generate a bigraded bialgebra K, whose module actions are equivalent to, but quite different from, those of A and R. The exact relationships emerge as “sheared algebra bij...

BACKGROUND Natural selection should favour the ability of mothers to adjust the sex ratio of offspring in relation to the offspring's potential reproductive success. In polygynous species, mothers in good condition would be advantaged by giving birth to more sons. While studies on mammals in general provide support for the hypothesis, studies on humans provide particularly inconsistent results,...

In this paper, we investigate some properties of inverse limits of linear algebraic groups. For example, we show that if G = lim ←−Gi, where (Gi, πji)i,j∈I is an inverse system of algebraic groups over an algebraically closed field. Then each canonical projection πi : G → Gi maps closed subgroups of G onto closed subgroups of Gi. Furthermore, we prove directly that the inverse limit of an inver...

We establish a cartesian presentation of a product of an indexed family of process structures, giving an analogue of a similar presentation of set-theoretic product. Such a presentation is non-trivial due to a speci c nature of the process relation in process structures and forms a basis of the algebraic theory of processes to be developed elsewhere.

The stack of iterated integrals of a path is embedded in a larger algebraic structure where iterated integrals are indexed by decorated rooted trees and where an extended Chen’s multiplicative property involves the Dürr-Connes-Kreimer coproduct on rooted trees. This turns out to be the natural setting for a non-geometric theory of rough paths. MSC: 60H99; 65L99