Objective: There are controversial reports about biological effects of the Melia Azedarach Linn. (MA). In the present study, the effect of MA fruit extract on lipid profile, cardiac and hepatic functions of diabetic rats was investigated. Materials and Methods: Thirty male Wistar rats were divided into five groups. Group 1 as the control group, Group 2 as the diabetic group, Group 3 and 4 as t...

background: the oncologic behavior of mucinous adenocarcinoma (ma) of colorectal differs from non-mucinous adenocarcinoma (nma). ma is more advanced at diagnosis and has a poorer prognosis than nma. we aimed to evaluate prognostic factors and survival rate in patients with ma compared with nma in western iran. methods: during 2008-2015 in a retrospective study, 83 patients with crc referred to ...

This chapter addresses three main problems of the production planning area: Single Machine Scheduling (SMS), Parallel Machine Scheduling (PMS) and Flowshop Scheduling (FS). Many situations in production environments found in industries around the world can be modelled as one or a set of them (Baker 1974). It is easy to find dozens of problem variants in the literature due to different productio...

Lymphocytic hypothalamitis (LHT) is a rare disease characterized by pituitary dysfunction, autonomic instability, metabolic disturbances, and neuropsychiatric disorders. We report the case of a 30-year-old man found to have LHT that progressed despite treatment with methylprednisolone and intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG). A literature review was conducted to identify prior studies pertaining t...

The present study records the first successful colonization of Mansonia annulata and describes colony maintenance with modification of rearing medium and host plants. Three species of Mansonia mosquitoes (Ma. uniformis, Ma. indiana and Ma annulifera) were successfully reared in ambient environments with adult emergence rates > 50%, while Ma. bonneae and Ma. dives yielded emergence rates > 30%. ...

A new method to estimate the moving-average (MA) coefficients of a stationary time series is proposed. The new approach is based on the modified Cholesky factorization of a consistent estimator of the autocovariance matrix. Convergence rates are established, and the new estimates are used in order to implement a MA-type sieve bootstrap. Finite-sample simulations corroborate the good performance...