background echocardiography is widely used to diagnose or exclude cardiac disease. the reports on reference values based on an asian population are limited. objectives we conducted a study to determine normal values for two-dimensional, m-mode, and doppler echocardiographic measurements and evaluate the relationship between these parameters and age and gender in a large, healthy iranian populat...

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after four years of publishing the iranian national laboratory standard and following a strategic plan to implement its requirements, it was decided to review the taken actions, evaluating the achievements and the failures, as well as analyzing the gaps and planning the interventional activities to resolve the problems. a thorough evaluation revealed that the progress of implementation process ...

The material contained here is intended to supplement and support the information reported in our article, “On a Stochastic Non-relativistic Approach to Gravity as Originating from Vacuum Zero-Point Field van der Waals Forces,” to be published in Phys. Rev. A. The present material can be obtained from the EPAPS homepage (http://www.aip.org/pubservs/epaps.html) or from ftp.aip.org in the directo...

According to what is perhaps the dominant picture of reference, a referential term refers in context determined by speaker intends for her audience identify as referent. I argue that this sort broadly Gricean view entails, counterintuitively, it impossible knowingly use terms ways one expects or be misunderstood. Then sketch an alternative which can better account such opaque uses language, cal...

BACKGROUND There are many databases of small molecules focused on different aspects of research and its applications. Some tasks may require integration of information from various databases. However, determining which entries from different databases represent the same compound is not straightforward. Integration can be based, for example, on automatically generated cross-reference links betwe...