background:   objective: to determine whether different diagnostic criteria of gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) are suitable for iranian population.   materials and methods: prospective study was performed on 617 pregnant women. 1804 subjects referred for 50 g glucose challenge test (gct) between 24th and 28 th weeks of gestation. 617 women with abnormal gct (blood glucose ≥130 mg/dl) underw...

servant and then to Paris, being employed there as a waiter in a restaurant which was patronised by members of the medical profession. He showed a lively interest in their work and must have impressed them not only with his intelligence and enthusiasm, but with a natural aptitude for their profession: they gave him informal instruction in medicine, supplemented no doubt by what he overheard dur...

introduction mahmoodabad county is located at the coastal region of the country, and it is neighbor of coastal areas where are full of tourism and entertainment applications. this has led to intense development towards suburbs and human domiciles in this county. the 432-unit of mehr housing project in the mahmoodabad, mazandaran province, iran, is located at the 52° 11' to 52° 29' eas...

background and objectives: rheological characteristics of dough are important for achieving useful information about raw-material quality, dough behavior during mechanical handling, and textural characteristics of products. our purpose in the present research is to apply soft computation tools for predicting the rheological properties of dough out of simple measurable factors. materials and met...

Sandra Castano-Solis 1,*, Daniel Serrano-Jimenez 2, Lucia Gauchia 3 and Javier Sanz 2 1 Department of Electrical, Automation and Electronic Engineering and Applied Physic ETSIDI Technical University of Madrid, 28012 Madrid, Spain 2 Department of Electrical Engineering Carlos III University of Madrid, 28911 Madrid, Spain; [email protected] (D.S.-J.); [email protected] (J.S.) 3 Electrical and ...

Medical practice in fifteenth-century England is often seen as suffering from the low status and unregulated practice of which Thomas Linacre later complained. Unlike in many European cities, the provision of physic was uncontrolled, and while urban guilds oversaw surgery as a manual art, no comprehensive system of medical organisation or regulation existed. However, in a remarkable episode of ...

This paper discusses the application of the thought experiment methodology to qualitative reasoning . Problem solving using this technique involves simplification of the original problem, solution of the simplifie d problem, and generalization of the results obtained . Our emphasis in this work is to demonstrate th e effectiveness of this approach in addressing complexity and grain size issues ...