Legged locomotion systems are a class of biological robots by supporting on the ground with discrete points, and can traverse nature terrain in large range. This kind of robots is a class of important research objects in robotics community in a long time. In the early time, most of the legged robot systems are static balance locomotion systems, which show a slow moving speed and high requiremen...

Catecholamine drugs are aromatic vic-diols in which both the 3or 4-position is unsubstituted and these positions are not sterically blocked. Epinephrine(EP) or adrenaline(I) and norepinephrine(NE) or noradrenaline (II) are catecholamine drugs that are widely used in the treatment of allergic emergencies, status asthmatics, bronchial asthma, ventricular bradycardia, cardiac arrest, glaucoma, and...

For a prime power q, we study the distribution of determinent of matrices with restricted entries over a finite field Fq of q elements. More precisely, let Nd(A; t) be the number of d×d matrices with entries in A having determinant t. We show that Nd(A; t) = (1 + o(1)) |A|d2 q , if |A| = ω(q d 2d−1 ), d > 4. When q is a prime and A is a symmetric interval [−H,H], we get the same result for d > ...

Elham AHMADI*, Seyed Ali POURBAKHSH, Malahat AHMADI, Alireza TALEBI Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran Department of Poultry Diseases, Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, Karaj, Iran Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicin...

The Kuwaiti oil wells set on fire by retreating Iraqi troops at the end of the Persian Gulf War released complex particles, inorganic and organic gases, and hydrocarbons into the atmosphere, damaging the environment where many people live and work. In this study, we assessed the health effects of particles from the Kuwaiti oil fires by instilling hamsters intratracheally with particles (<3.5 mi...

The research report concluded, "It appears that self-reported sleep reported of participants may be associated to the indirect effects of visual and attitudinal cue and concern about property devaluation rather than distance to the nearest WT's or noise as itself." Careful reading of the report shows that the conclusions presented are not supported by the data provided in the report.

This study was conducted to evaluate retrospectively 203 patients diagnosed with hydatid cyst disease and treated surgically at two university medical centers between 1999 and 2009 in Tehran, the capital of Iran. Cystic echinococcosis (CE) affected more females 117 (57.6%) than males 86 (42.4%). A remarkable gender difference skewed towards females was observed, and the male/female ratio among ...

Article Type Original Research Authors Siavashi M.* MSc, Ahmadi R.1 PhD How to cite this article Siavashi M, Ahmadi R. Effect of Oil Paint Fumes Inhalation on the Level of Serum Thyroid Hormones and Thyroid Stimulating Hormone in Rats. Quarterly of the Horizon of Medical Sciences. 2016;22(3):221-227. Copyright© 2016 ASP Ins. This open-access article is published under the terms of the Creative ...

The surface plasmon excitation energies of noble metal nanowires are strongly dependent on the dimensions of the nanowire and the local environment, which allows for tunable optical characteristics of nanowire samples (Noguez, 2007; Nehl, C. L. & Hafner, J. H. 2008). This has great advantages for the use of nanowires in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (Orendorff et al. 2006; Sztainbuch, 200...