background and purpose: the goal of this study is application of the proportional hazards model (ph) and accelerated failure time model (aft), with consideration weibull distribution, to determine the level of effectiveness of the factors affecting on the level of disease-free survival (dfs) of the patients with breast cancer. materials and methods: based on the retrospective descriptive studie...

Low pressure dehydroxylation of serpentine phases is important in processes such as the inertialisation of chrysotile asbestos or the CO2 sequestration in ultramafic rocks. Although research on the mechanism of this process goes back to the forties of last century, the dehydroxylation mechanism is still not fully elucidated. In this study with used non-isothermal thermogravimetric (TGA) analyse...

In this paper, free vibration analysis of orthotropic functionally graded material (FGM) cylinders was carried out by a Mesh-Free method. In this analysis, moving least squares shape functions are used for approximation of displacement field in the weak form of equilibrium equation. Essential boundary conditions are imposed by transformation method. In this simulation, an axisymmetric model is ...

abstract background: rehabilitation of facial paralysis is one of the greatest challenges faced by reconstructive surgeons today. the traditional method for treatment of patients with facial palsy is the two-stage free gracilis flap which has a long latency period of between the two stages of surgery. methods: in this paper, we prospectively compared the results of the one-stage gracilis flap m...

The biofuel properties of biomass play an important role in achieving their utilization on agro-systems and industries. In this context the biomass waste of maize, corncob husk, and its biochars were taken into account to be investigated by thermogravimetric analysis, thermodynamic parameters for non-isothermal analyses using the Ozawa-Flynn-Wall kinetic isoconversional model in order to compre...

The crystallization of the 3F5FPhF6 compound from liquid crystalline antiferroelectric smectic CA* phase is investigated in various conditions using differential scanning calorimetry and polarizing optical microscopy. kinetics isothermal melt cold studied on basis Avrami model. non-isothermal analysed Ozawa model activation energy determined by Augis-Bennett, Friedman’s isoconversional Matusita...

objectives: in present study, we studied the effect of teaching three painting methods (free method, subject selection method and complementary method) on creativity of children with learning disabilities. first, among all disabled students, who refer to bizhani center for learning disabilities in arak city, 60 subjects were randomly selected as statistical sample. thus, the 45 children, divide...

We discuss recently generated high-temperature series expansions for the free energy and the susceptibility of random-bond q-state Potts models on hypercubic lattices. Using the star-graph expansion technique, quenched disorder averages can be calculated exactly for arbitrary uncorrelated coupling distributions while keeping the disorder strength p as well as the dimension d as symbolic paramet...