background: in this study we evaluated the incidence of hypothyroidism in patients who received external beam radiation due to cancer, when radiation portals included thyroid gland. methods: this prospective study was conducted from april 2004 to december 2005 among patients with head and neck or breast malignancies who referred to radiation oncology department of cancer institute, imam khomein...

melatonin has both pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory properties depending on the stage of inflammation. despite its therapeutic effect in alleviation of some symptoms of multiple sclerosis; the precise role of melatonin in ms pathogenesis remains a topic of debate. the aim of this study was to measure the urine level of one of melatonin products which is an index of serum melatonin level, ...

in this paper. (1) we determine the complex-valued solutions of the following variant of van vleck's functional equation $$int_{s}f(sigma(y)xt)dmu(t)-int_{s}f(xyt)dmu(t) = 2f(x)f(y), ;x,yin s,$$ where $s$ is a semigroup, $sigma$ is an involutive morphism of $s$, and $mu$ is a complex measure that is linear combinations of dirac measures $(delta_{z_{i}})_{iin i}$, such that for all $iin i$,...

iran is one of the most energy-rich countries subsidizing energy carriers, especially in the agricultural sector, to the extent that the resulting growth is at the expense of the environment. this study tries to investigate the potential impacts of energy price reform on the agro-environment, based on the marginal abatement costs (macs) of emissions. firstly, the energy demand function of the a...

in this paper we present a method to perform flood frequency analysis (ffa) when the assumption of stationary is not important (or not valid). a wavelet transform model is developed to ffa. a full series is applied to ffa using two different wavelet functions, and then a combined method is investigated. in the combined method, all discharge data which were less than the lowest value of annual m...

assume that $mathbb{d}$ is the open unit disk. applying ozaki's conditions, we consider two classes of locally univalent, which denote by $mathcal{g}(alpha)$ and $mathcal{f}(mu)$ as follows begin{equation*}  mathcal{g}(alpha):=left{fin mathcal{a}:mathfrak{re}left( 1+frac{zf^{prime prime }(z)}{f^{prime }(z)}right)

the object of this paper is to establish certain generalized fractional integration and differentiation involving generalized mittag-leffler function defined by salim and faraj [25]. the considered generalized fractional calculus operators contain the appell's function $f_3$ [2, p.224] as kernel and are introduced by saigo and maeda [23]. the marichev-saigo-maeda fractional calculus operat...

in this paper we establish a characterization of abelian compact hausdorff semigroups with unique idempotent and ideal retraction property. we also introduce a function algebra on a semitopological semigroup whose associated semigroup compactification is universal withrespect to these properties.

a characteristic of data envelopment analysis (dea) is to allow individual decision making units (dmus) to select the factor weights which are the most advantageous for them in calculating their efficiency scores. this flexibility in selecting the weights, on the other hand, deters the comparison among dmus on a common base. for dealing with this difficulty and assessing all the dmus on the sam...