Study of the neutrinoless ββ decay allows us to put a stringent limit on the effective neutrino Majorana mass, a quantity of fundamental importance. To test our ability to evaluate the nuclear matrix elements that govern the decay rate, it is desirable to be able to describe the allowed two-neutrino decay. It is argued that only low-lying virtual intermediate states are important for that proce...

We report a case of a Nepalese who developed a recrudescence of malignant falciparum malaria whilst taking systemic corticosteroids. The malaria was resistant to chloroquine at the RI level, the first such case reported from BMH Dharan.

Genomic DNA is fragmented into segments using the Jensen-Shannon divergence. Use of this criterion results in the fragments being entropically homogeneous to within a predefined level of statistical significance. Application of this procedure is made to complete genomes of organisms from archaebacteria, eubacteria, and eukaryotes. The distribution of fragment lengths in bacterial and primitive ...

Apart from radio- and chemotherapy, monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) represent a new, more selective tool in the treatment of hematological malignancies. MoAbs bind with the specific antigens of the tumors. This interaction is a basis for targeted therapies which exhibit few side effects and significant antitumor activity. This review provides an overview of the functional characteristics of MoAbs...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The rise of electronic games has driven both concerns and hopes regarding their potential to influence young people. Existing research identifies a series of isolated positive and negative effects, yet no research to date has examined the balance of these potential effects in a representative sample of children and adolescents. The objective of this study was to explo...

We extend the idea of process capability plots from the case of two-sided specification intervals to derive a graphical method useful when doing capability analysis having one-sided specification limits. The derived process capability plots are based on existing capability indices for one-sided specification limits. Both the cases with and without a target value are investigated. Under the assu...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The rise of electronic games has driven both concerns and hopes regarding their potential to influence young people. Existing research identifies a series of isolated positive and negative effects, yet no research to date has examined the balance of these potential effects in a representative sample of children and adolescents. The objective of this study was to explo...

Study cost remains the major limiting factor for genome-wide association studies due to the necessity of genotyping a large number of SNPs for a large number of subjects. Both DNA pooling strategies and two-stage designs have been proposed to reduce genotyping costs. In this study, we propose a cost-effective, two-stage approach with a DNA pooling strategy. During stage I, all markers are evalu...

OBJECTIVE Schizophrenia patients consistently demonstrate performance deficits on visual masking procedures. The present study examined whether attentional manipulation would improve subjects' performance on visual masking. METHOD A metacontrast task was administered to 105 schizophrenia patients and 52 healthy comparison subjects. Attention was manipulated by associating selected trials of t...

objective: since colposcopy biopsy test plays a significant role in the evaluation of cervix, especially in patients with an abnormal result of pap smear test, therefore, this research study was conducted to compare the results of pap smear and colposcopy directed punch biopsy tests at firoozgar and akbarabady hospitals from 2001 to 2003. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was ca...