i N. Masoumi is with the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (e-mail: [email protected]) ii D. Bastani is with the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (e-mail: [email protected]) iii S. Najarian is with the Robotic Surgery and Artificial Tactile Sensing Laboratory, Facu...

*Corresponding author: Bahar Bastani, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. Email: [email protected] 1Department of Surgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States 2Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Sa...

Sevil Hakimi, Sakineh Hajebrahimi, Parvin Bastani, Elham Aminian, Samieh Ghana, Marzieh Mohammadi. Msm, PhD. Assistant Professor, Tabriz University of Medical Science, Tabriz, Iran; MD. Professor, Tabriz University of Medical Science, Tabriz, Iran; Women’s Reproductive Health Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; MSm Student. Tabriz University of Medical Science,...

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: This article discusses renal artery thrombosis as a complication of distal renal artery stenosis in a kidney transplant recipient. This important complication should be considered in the differential diagnosis of acute kidney injury occurring immediately post-kidney transplantation. Acute early transplant renal artery thrombosis...

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An important component of camera calibration is to derive a mapping of a camera’s output RGB to a deviceindependent color space such as the CIE XYZ or sRGB. Commonly, the calibration process is performed by photographing a color chart in a scene under controlled lighting and finding a linear transformation M that maps the chart’s colors from linear camera RGB to XYZ. When the XYZ values corresp...

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