BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of and the risk factors associated with progression of renal artery disease in individuals with atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (ARAS). METHODS AND RESULTS Subjects with >/=1 ARAS were monitored with serial renal artery duplex scans. A total of 295 kidneys in 170 patients were monitored for a mean of 33 months. Overall, the...

The Aras reservoir, located in the north-west of Iran, plays an important role in fisheries, drinking and agricultural water supplies and recreational activities in the region. This study was performed to characterize the seasonal fluctuations of phytoplankton communities and their relationship with environmental factors in the Aras reservoir from August 2013 to May 2014. Sampling was carried o...

the astacus leptodactylus specimens were collected from four sites of aras reservoir, north-west of iran and examined for the epibionts during 2009. protozoan epibionts from ciliophora (one genus and seven species) and tracheophyta were isolated from the cuticular surface of different body parts of narrow-claw crayfish, a.leptodactylus. seasonal prevalence of infestation was determined in 394 i...

Bulgular: Cilt hastal›¤› olan hastalar›n saç örneklerinde yap›lan incelemede, sa¤l›kl› kontrollere oranla çinko, bak›r ve demir düzeyleri anlaml› oranda düflük iken, krom ve nikel düzeyleri ile kurflun ve kadmiyum gibi toksik elementlerin düzeyleri ise anlaml› derecede artm›fl olarak bulundu. Ayn› benzerlik kad›n ve erkekler ve çal›fl›lan yafl gruplar› aras›nda da mevcuttu (6-15 yafl ve 16-30 y...

Arvand is a stochastic planner that uses Monte Carlo random walks (MRW) planning to balance exploration and exploitation in heuristic search. Herein, we focus on the latest developments of Arvand submitted to IPC’11: smart restarts, the online parameter learning system, and the integration of Arvand and the postprocessing system Aras.

u makalede amaç, 1957-1960 y?llar? aras?nda ana muhalefet partisi olan Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi ile iktidarda bulunan Demokrat Parti’nin kendi söylemlerinde ve rakiplerine kar?? yönelttikleri propagandalar?nda hangi konular? milli güvenlik kapsam? içine soktuklar?n? söylemlerini incelemektir. Çal??mada 1957-1960’l? y?llar?n seçilmesindeki sebep, DP’nin iktidar?n?n son döneminin olmas?, iktidar m...

The role of the renal vasculature in eliciting renovascular hypertension (RVH) was established in 1934, when Goldblatt et al. [1] in a classical experimental study demonstrated that partial obstruction of the renal artery increased mean arterial blood pressure (BP). The pathophysiology of renal artery stenosis (RAS) is incompletely understood but has been postulated to be related to increased a...

Construction processes planning and e®ective management are extremely important for success in construction business. Head of a design must be well experienced in initiating, planning, and executing of construction projects. Therefore, proper assessment of design projects' managers is a vital part of construction process. The paper deals with an e®ective methodology that might serve as a decisi...

This paper proposes an extension of the ARAS method which, due to the use of intervalvalued fuzzy numbers, can be more appropriate for solving real-world problems. In order to overcome the complexity of real-world decision-making problems, the proposed extension also includes the use of linguistic variables and a group decision making approach. In order to highlight the proposed methodology an ...