introduction: position of the mental foramen is important both when administering regional anesthesia and performing surgery in the mandible. because of this anatomical structure's importance on one band, and the variations seen in its position in different ethnic groups, this study was designed to evaluate of the for a men's horizental position in panoramic radiographs of iranian patients take...

the measurment of various cytokines may provide a different tool for evaluation of the immune system. recent investigations have shown that the number and function of peripheral natural killer cells (nk- cells) increase during early pregnancy in women with a history of unexplained recurrent spontaneous abortions (rsa). nk-cells activity may be responsible for some cases of rsa. the objective of...

the problem of hypothesis testing with a nuisance parameter is considered. two methods forusing fuzzy knowledge on the nuisance parameter to test hypotheses are suggested. these methods areneither a pure classical nor a pure bayesian approach to hypothesis testing, but rather related to both. afew known examples and their applications, which cannot be studied by the parametric statisticalmethod...

scott and szewczyk in technometrics, 2001, have introduced a similarity measure for twodensities f1 and f2 , by1, 21 21 1 2 2( , ), ,f fsim f ff f f f< >=< >< >wheref1, f2 f1(x, θ1)f2(x, θ2)dx.+∞−∞< >=∫sim(f1, f2) has some appropriate properties that can be suitable measures for the similarity of f1 and f2 .however, due to some restrictions on the value of parameters and the kind of densities, ...

objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of local cryotherapy on the intensity of chemotherapy-induced oral mucositis in autologous bone marrow transplantation patients. patients and methods in this single, blinded, randomized clinical trial, 29 patients undergoing stem cell transplantation in iran were selected by convenience sampling, and randomly allocated to control (...

geotextiles are one of the most widely used synthetic materials in filtration and drainage applications. since in real applications, geotextiles are subjected to various hydraulic gradients and confining stresses, hydraulic behavior of geotextiles under different circumstances is of great practical importance. in this study filtration and drainage properties of several nonwoven needle-punched g...

In this paper a first step in classifying the fuzzy normalsubgroups of a finite group is made. Explicit formulas for thenumber of distinct fuzzy normal subgroups are obtained in theparticular cases of symmetric groups and dihedral groups.