BACKGROUND Critically ill trauma patients undergo many radiologic studies, but the cumulative radiation dose is unknown. The purpose of this study was to estimate the cumulative effective dose (CED) of radiation resulting from radiologic studies in critically ill trauma patients. METHODS The study group was composed of trauma patients at an urban Level I trauma center with surgical intensive ...

Because of increasing waiting times for adjuvant radiation in the province of Ontario, patients from one Canadian centre were referred to two centres in the United States. This situation provided an opportunity to compare radiation practices.We performed a retrospective review of radiation prescribed to patients following breast-conserving surgery for invasive breast cancer. Patients with posit...

the biosorption of hexavelent chromium from saline solutions by posidonia oceanica, a marinebiomass, was studied as a function of ph, initial chromium (vi) and salt (nacl) concentrations in batchsystem. the sorbent exhibited the maximal chromium (vi) uptake at ph 2 regardless of the presence ofincreasing salt concentration. equilibrium uptake increased with chromium (vi) concentration up to 250...

this study presents the influence of hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (hpbcd) on the aqueous solubility of acyl esters of cyproterone. first, a number of esters of cyproterone were synthesized. then the phase solubility analysis of the compounds in the presence of hpbcd was investigated in phosphate buffer solution at a ph of 7.4. to gain a better understanding of the complexation mechanism, the sy...

a multiple linear regression model is proposed to calculate capacity factor of  analytes using structural features computed using hyperchem software. the  chemical descriptors of analytes were computed using hyperchem software and  regressed against the experimental capacity factors of analytes collected from the  literature. the absolute average percentage deviation (aard) and individual perce...

background: identification of disease risk factors can help in the prevention of diseases. in assessing the predictive value of continuous variables, a routine procedure is to categorize the factors. this yield to inability to detect non‑linear relationship, if exist. multivariate fractional polynomial (mfp) modeling is a flexible method to reveal non‑linear associations. we aim to demonstrate ...

background: forecasting of air pollutants has become a popular topic of environmental research today. for this purpose, the artificial neural network (aan) technique is widely used as a reliable method for forecasting air pollutants in urban areas. on the other hand, the evolutionary polynomial regression (epr) model has recently been used as a forecasting tool in some environmental issues. in ...

the potential and performance of various gram-negative, gram-positive and archaeal wild type microorganisms, and bacterial mixed cultures, as well as the application of genetically engineered strains as whole-cell biocatalysts for glycerol-based polyhydroxyalkanoate production are analyzed and assessed. this encompasses the comparison of growth and polyhydroxyalkanoate accumulation kinetics, th...

there are some ambiguities about the status of women in islam, andthis paper studies exemplary women in the holy koran by content analysis, referringto valid interpretations. its basic questions include: koran’s method in introducingmodels, gender roles in koran, and koran’s criteria and modeling principles aboutexemplary women. the findings demonstrate that the koran has acted very preciselyto...

object detection plays an important role in successfulness of a wide range ofapplications that involve images as input data. in this paper we have presented anew approach for background modeling by nonconsecutive frames differencing.direction and velocity of moving objects have been extracted in order to get anappropriate sequence of frames to perform frame subtraction. stationary parts ofbackg...