Retinyl methyl ether (RME) is known to prevent the development of mammary cancer. However, the mechanism by which RME exerts its anticancer effect is presently unclear. The diverse biological functions of retinoids, the vitamin A derivatives, are mainly mediated by their nuclear receptors, retinoic acid receptors (RARs) and retinoid X receptors (RXRs). RARs and RXRs are ligand-dependent transcr...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) intraocular lens (IOL) calculator for eyes with prior radial keratotomy and assess the accuracy of its methods in predicting IOL power in patients with previous radial keratotomy. METHODS This retrospective study included data from 15 eyes with previous radial keratotomy and su...

The per capita ecological footprint (EF) is one of the most widely recognized measures of environmental sustainability. It aims to quantify the Earth's biological resources required to support human activity. In this paper, we summarize relevant previous literature, and present five factors that influence per capita EF. These factors are: National gross domestic product (GDP), urbanization (ind...

Intracellular trafficking is a vital component of both virulence mechanisms and drug interactions in Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of human African trypanosomiasis and n'agana of cattle. Both maintaining the surface proteome composition within a life stage and remodeling the composition when progressing between life stages are important features of immune evasion and development for t...

the phenomenological model of khossravi and connors (1992) has been adopted to calculate the electrophoretic mobility of drugs at different concentrations of solvents in a binary mixture. the accuracy and predictability of the model have been evaluated employing 14 experimental data sets by using average percentage mean deviation (apmd). the obtained apmd for correlative and predictive studies ...

background: one of the main problems especially in operating room and monitoring devices is measurement of blood pressure (bp) by sphygmomanometer cuff. objective: in this study we designed a new method to measure bp changes continuously for detecting information between cuff inflation times by using vital signals in monitoring devices. this will be achieved by extraction of the time difference...

Result: All patients had symmetric, natural osteotomy lines, and satisfactory facial ratios in a single-stage operation. The average relative error of VSP and post-op result on the entire skull was 0.41 ± 0.13 mm. The average new left gonial error(Go’-L Error) was 0.43 ± 0.77mm. The average new right gonial error(Go’-R Error) was 0.45 ± 0.69mm. The Average pognion error(Pg error) was 0.79 ± 1.2...

in this study, the performance of aquacrop model to predict yield production of winter wheat (roshan and gods varieties), water and solute balance of soil profile was evaluated under water and salinity stresses. field experiments were conducted with three levels of saline irrigation water including: s1, s2 and s3corresponding to 1.4, 4.5 and 9.6 ds/m, respectively, and four levels of irrigation...

Result: All patients had symmetric, natural osteotomy lines, and satisfactory facial ratios in a single-stage operation. The average relative error of VSP and post-op result on the entire skull was 0.41 ± 0.13 mm. The average new left gonial error(Go’-L Error) was 0.43 ± 0.77mm. The average new right gonial error(Go’-R Error) was 0.45 ± 0.69mm. The Average pognion error(Pg error) was 0.79 ± 1.2...