lipoprotein(a), an ldl variant, has been claimed to have a role in atherogenesis and therefore coronary artery disease (cad). however, its production and atherogenecity seems to vary among ethnic groups. in order to study the possible correlation between levels of lp(a) and cad in iranian patients who suffered myocardial infarction (mi), a case-control study was carried out on 120 mi patients a...

an important issue in implementation of a gis system is preparation of data to be entered in gis. to produce spatial data for gis using photogrammetric techniques, conventional method is to apply photogrammetric and gis systems individually (off-line procedure). this approach is costly, time consuming and somehow unreliable due to the fact that 3d photogrammetric model is not available at the t...

Much of the Human Factors research into vehicle automation has focused on driver responses to critical scenarios where a crash might occur. However, there is less knowledge about the effects of vehicle automation on drivers' behaviour during non-critical take-over situations, such as driver-initiated lane-changing or overtaking. The current driving simulator study, conducted as part of the EC-f...

As anybody knows, there is a fundamental difference between the newest CAD system and the conventional Numerical Control. As a matter of fact, almost every CAD Software allows programmers to use parametric 2D or 3D curves, whereas standard Numerical Control cannot perform anything more than linear or circular interpolations. NURBS are the most successful among all the proposed parametric curves...

Background: Polymorphisms of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system have been found in association with coronary artery disease (CAD). The M235T polymorphism is the most important angiotensinogen (AGT) genetic variant. The relationship between AGT gene polymorphisms and CAD has been investigated in only a few studies, however, with conflicting results. In most of these studies, not all partic...

This cross-sectional study tested the hypothesis that decreased serum levels of tetranectin (TN), a regulator of the fibrinolysis and proteolytic system, is associated with the presence and severity of CAD. We conducted a systematic serological and immunohistochemical (IHC) analysis to respectively compare the TN levels in serum and artery samples in CAD patients and healthy controls. Our resul...