In many bioinformatics research and applications, we need to extract interesting signals or to compare between signals in large multivariate data sets. In most cases those signals are buried in “noise”. Finding methods to increase signal-to-noise ratio is an important statistical problem studied for many years and there exist a set of well developed methods for noise reduction and signal boosti...

Over the past decade, Euclidean distance matrices, or EDMs, have been receiving increased attention for two main reasons. The first reason is that the many applications of EDMs, such as molecular conformation in bioinformatics, dimensionality reduction in machine learning and statistics, and especially the problem of wireless sensor network localization, have all become very active areas of res...

Biomass burning is an important source of brown carbon (BrC) which poses high-risk threats to human health and the environment. In this study, bio-coal briquette (coal mixed with biomass), a promising solid fuel for residential combustion, proven be clean can effectively reduce BrC emission. First all, orthogonal experiment three factors levels on physical property bio-briquette was carried out...

PURPOSE To suggest a surgical normogram for lateral rectus recession in exotropia associated with unilateral or bilateral superior oblique muscle palsy (SOP). METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the charts of 71 patients with exotropia who were successfully corrected over one year. Each patient had undergone unilateral or bilateral rectus recession associated with uni- or bilateral inferior o...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the effectiveness of guided bone regeneration (GBR) carried out with xenogenic bone substitute (Bio-OssTM) and collagen resorbable membrane (Bio-GideTM) to improve gingival smile (GS) in patients with excessive vertical maxillary growth (EVMG). METHODS Twelve healthy women aged between 20 and 49 years old (mean age of 26 years), with 5 mm or more of gingival exp...

In this study, the synthesis of ceria (CeO2) nanoparticles (NPs) was examined by the biosynthesis method. Then, enzyme-like features of synthesized nanoceria were examined. Peroxidase enzyme from fig (Ficus carica) was used as a synthesis and stabilizer reagent. Furthermore, it was investigated whether the obtained nanoceria has superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and peroxidase (POX) ac...