Change in QOL after pancreatoduodenectomy is dependent upon the percent change in psoas muscle volume

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Percent Signal Change for fMRI

Quantitative scaling into percent signal change is helpful to detect and eliminate “bad” results with abnormal extreme values. While cognitive effects give signal changes on the order of 1% (and larger in the visual and auditory cortices), signal variations of over 10% may arise from motion and other artifacts in the data. Thus, a quantitative check on measured effect size can be used to screen...

Percent change was and is an embarrassing mistake.

Volume change and pressure development in muscle during contraction.

Volume change and pressure development in muscle during contraction. 1967.-Volume changes recorded in isometric and isotonic twitches of gastrocnemius muscle are similar to those recorded in sartorius muscle. The major differences are the greater difficulty in approaching isometric recording conditions in the gastrocnemius muscle and the possibility that a portion of the volume change could be ...

Is there any change in the pattern of bacterial translocation with increased time of the obstruction?

 Introduction: Bacterial translocation is defined as the passage of bacteria from intestinal tract to the extraintestinal organs such as the peritoneum and blood circulation. The aim of this study is to examine bacterial translocation (regarding type of bacteria and effect of time of obstruction on bacterial translocation) from intestinal lumen to the peritoneum and viscera in acute, simple mec...