Operational applications for human identification require high credibility in order to determine or verify a person’s identity to a desired confidence level. Multimodal biometric score fusion (MBSF) can significantly improve detection, recognition, and identification performance of humans. The goals of this research are to explore the impact of each factor in a MBSF process and to determine the...

background: the present study was aimed to evaluate the efficacy of acetaminophen plus dexamethasone on post‑operative emergence agitation in pediatric adenotonsillectomy. methods: a total of 128 patients were randomized and assigned among four groups as: intravenous (iv) dexamethasone, oral acetaminophen, iv dexamethasone plus oral acetaminophen, placebo. group 1 received 0.2 mg/kg dexamethaso...

Several studies have demonstrated that there are genetic influences on free-choice oral nicotine consumption in mice. In order to establish the genetic architecture that underlies individual differences in free-choice nicotine consumption, quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping was used to identify chromosomal regions that influence free-choice nicotine consumption in male and female F(2) mice d...

OBJECTIVES Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is the most widely used technique to measure bone mineral density (BMD). Appropriate and accurate use of DXA is of great importance, and several guidelines have been developed in the last years. Our aim was to evaluate the quality of published guidelines on DXA for adults. METHODS Between June and July 2016 we conducted an online search for DX...

BACKGROUND Validated questionnaires can support the identification of psychosocial problems by the Preventive Child Health Care (PCH) system. This study assesses the validity and added value of four scoring methods used with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) for the identification of psychosocial problems among children aged 7-12 by the PCH. METHODS We included 711 (of 814) c...

A novel cohort selection method, namely, successive cohort selection (SCS) is presented in this paper for text-independent speaker verification. The proposed method computes distance between two models directly and it selects new cohort member based on both the claimed speaker model and the existing cohort members. In addition to this new cohort selection method, we also propose a new score mea...

sepsis and septic shock are among mortality causes following major surgeries. the charlson co-morbidity index consists of 19 weighted categories related to chronic health which measures the burden of co-morbidity. the goal of this study was to determine the incidence of postoperative sepsis in patients underwent gynecological and gastrointestinal cancer surgeries and predictive role of charlson...

twenty four primiparous and multiparous holstein cows on early lactation, beginning five weeks postpartum, were used for four weeks to investigate the effects of supplemention of rumen-protected choline (rpc) or vitamin e on milk yield, milk composition, dry matter intake, body condition score and body weight. the cows were randomly assigned to one of the following treatments: i)no supplement (...