Different genetic polymorphisms influence cardiovascular disease. We recently discovered a relationship between the intima-media thickness of the muscular femoral artery, but not the elastic common carotid artery, and the combined ACE (ACE, I/D), alpha-adducin (Gly460Trp),and aldosterone synthase (AS, C-344T) gene polymorphisms. To investigate the relationship between these polymorphisms and fu...

Impaired glucose metabolism (IGM) and type 2 diabetes (DM-2) are associated with high cardiovascular disease risk. Increases in peripheral and central artery stiffness may represent pathophysiologic pathways through which glucose tolerance status leads to cardiovascular disease. Peripheral artery stiffness increases with deteriorating glucose tolerance status, whereas this trend remains unclear...

abstract background: delivery is one of the most important crises with mental, social, and deep emotional dimensions in women’s life. health providers’ respect to pregnant women’s bill of rights, as an important component of providing humanistic and ethical care, is of utmost importance. this study aimed to determine health providers’ compliance with the pregnant women’s bill of rights in labor...

background and objectives: the iranian ministry of health and medical education (mohme) has obligated health settings to follow the reference guidelines developed by the ministry in implementing of emergency department triage system. the present study aimed at auditing the compliance of emergency department triage system in shahid madani hospital, in terms of compliance with mohme guideline, an...

The SO(5)⊃ SO(3) spherical harmonics form a natural basis for expansion of nuclear collective model angular wave functions. They underlie the recently-proposed algebraic method for diagonalization of the nuclear collective model Hamiltonian in an SU(1, 1)× SO(5) basis. We present a computer code for explicit construction of the SO(5)⊃ SO(3) spherical harmonics and use them to compute the Clebsc...

I USE the term covariants to include invariants, and I write particularly concerning lists of covariants (groundforms) of the binary quintic and sextic, those of quantics of lower degree being few and well known. When the weight of a covariant is spoken of in this article, it must be understood to mean the weight of its first term or "source." The symbol 5ft will denote that covariant of the qu...

We characterize the angular polyspectra, of arbitrary order, associated with isotropic fields defined on the sphere S = { (x, y, z) : x + y + z = 1 } . Our techniques rely heavily on group representation theory, and specifically on the properties of Wigner matrices and Clebsch-Gordan coefficients. The findings of the present paper constitute a basis upon which one can build formal procedures fo...

GLh(n) × GLh′(m)-covariant (hh)-bosonic (or (hh)-fermionic) algebras Ahh′±(n,m) are built in terms of the corresponding Rh and Rh′-matrices by contracting the GLq(n) × GLq±1(m)-covariant q-bosonic (or q-fermionic) algebras A q± (n,m), α = 1, 2. When using a basis of A q± (n,m) wherein the annihilation operators are contragredient to the creation ones, this contraction procedure can be carried o...

Many non-Abelian finite subgroups of SU(3) have been used to explain the flavor structure of the Standard Model. In order to systematize and classify successful models, a detailed knowledge of their mathematical structure is necessary. In this paper we shall therefore look closely at the series of finite non-Abelian groups known as ∆(6n), its smallest members being S3 (n = 1) and S4 (n = 2). Fo...