The evidence in the demographic and family planning literature of the range and diversity of the barriers to fertility regulation in many developing countries is reviewed in this article from a consumer perspective. Barriers are defined as the constraining factors standing between women and the realistic availability of the technologies and correct information they need in order to decide wheth...

introduction: a total dissolved solid (tds) is an important indicator for water quality assesment. since the composition of mineral salts and discharge affects the tds of water, it is important to understand the relationships of mineral salts composition with tds. materials and methods: in this study, methods of artificial neural networks with five different training algorithm,levenberg-marquar...

This paper presents the author's personal journey throughout the inception of Soft Computing (SC) and its evolution into Hybrid Soft Computing (HSC). In 1994, Zadeh de ned the concept of Soft Computing as a loose association or partnership of components . Since then, SC has undergone several transformational phases. In our journey, we provide a retrospective view of SC past four phases, its cur...

Nitric oxide (NO) is a key mediator that plays an important role in pathogenesis of various chronic diseases like Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Additionally, there is a great attitude for finding natural compounds, which could control and inhibit NO production in pathological conditions. Therefore, we were encouraged to investigate the effects of some Lamiaceae species on NO prod...

Nitric oxide (NO) is a key mediator that plays an important role in pathogenesis of various chronic diseases like Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Additionally, there is a great attitude for finding natural compounds, which could control and inhibit NO production in pathological conditions. Therefore, we were encouraged to investigate the effects of some Lamiaceae species on NO prod...

Human prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders associated with an accumulation of PrP(Sc) in the central nervous system (CNS). Of the human prion diseases, sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), which has no known origin, is the most common form while variant CJD (vCJD) is an acquired human prion disease reported to differ from other human prion diseases in its neurological, neu...

Abstract Habits and sentiment are important psychological behaviors in asset pricing. In this article I nest consumer as a risk factor into the Campbell–Cochrane (CC) habit model examine its impact on prices. The provides an economic mechanism for pricing of through sensitivity equilibrium levels but finds market price much lower than fundamentals. additional does not improve CC model, with bot...

SC) is a characteristic type of SC with increased serum IgG4 levels and dense infiltration of IgG4-positive plasma cells with extensive fibrosis in the bile duct wall.1 IgG4-SC is now recognized within the spectrum of systemic IgG4-related diseases. IgG4-SC is well resolved by steroid therapy, which is a characteristic feature of IgG4-related disease. IgG4-SC is frequently associated with type ...

The growing evidence that cancer originates from stem cells (SC) holds a great promise to eliminate this disease by designing specific drug therapies for removing cancer SC. Translation of this knowledge into predictive tests for the clinic is hampered due to the lack of methods to discriminate cancer SC from non-cancer SC. Here, we address this issue by describing a conceptual strategy for ide...