background: pregnant women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus are at increased risk of progressive carotid artery disorders. the current study evaluated carotid intima-media thickness (imt) in pregnant women with gestational diabetes at two time points of mid-term and full-term pregnancy to determine whether gestational diabetes mellitus causes increased imt. methods: this cross-sectio...

Background: Neonatal jaundice is clinically presented in 60% of full-term newborns. About 8% of newborns with jaundice have urinary tract infection (UTI) without any other clinical signs in favor of UTI. In present study we evaluated clinical and paraclinical data that help to rapid and early diagnosis of UTI in apparently healthy newborns with jaundice. Methods: From February to August 2006, 5...

For any pair of quantum states, an initial state |I〉 and a final quantum state |F 〉, in a Hilbert space, there are many Hamiltonians H under which |I〉 evolves into |F 〉. Let us impose the constraint that the difference between the largest and smallest eigenvalues of H, Emax and Emin, is held fixed. We can then determine the Hamiltonian H that satisfies this constraint and achieves the transform...

The well-known method of median filtering is used both in a wide range application frameworks and as standalone filter. Small-window filters can highly reduce the power salt pepper or additive Gaussian noise minimize edge blurring. Large-window are also used, for example to estimate background images. Currently, window size should not be an issue constant time algorithm several implementations,...