background: ca-125 is a glycoprotein and its origin is uncertain during pregnancy. it arises during the first trimester and return to a non-pregnancy range in late pregnancy. objective: the aim of this study was to compare ca-125 level in threatened abortion and normal pregnancy less than 20 weeks of pregnancy. materials and methods: this was a prospective case study carried out on 50 healthy p...

background and aim: nesfatin-1 is a newly discovered anti-appetite protein which is expressed in adipose tissue and appears in plasma. it has a significant role in energy homeostasis and metabolism. the aim of this study was to assess the effects of an 8-week endurance and resistance training on the plasma level of nesfatin-1, cardiorespiratory endurance, and body composition of overweight and ...

background: in this study, quantitative 32p bremsstrahlung planar and spect imaging and consequent dose assessment were carried out as a comprehensive phantom study to define an appropriate method for accurate dosimetry in clinical practice. materials and methods: ct, planar and spect bremsstrahlung images of jaszczak phantom containing a known activity of 32p were acquired. in addition, phanto...

a unital $c^*$ -- algebra $mathcal a,$ endowed withthe lie product $[x,y]=xy- yx$ on $mathcal a,$ is called a lie$c^*$ -- algebra. let $mathcal a$ be a lie $c^*$ -- algebra and$g,h:mathcal a to mathcal a$ be $bbb c$ -- linear mappings. a$bbb c$ -- linear mapping $f:mathcal a to mathcal a$ is calleda lie $(g,h)$ -- double derivation if$f([a,b])=[f(a),b]+[a,f(b)]+[g(a),h(b)]+[h(a),g(b)]$ for all ...

finger vein is one of the most fitting biometric for identifying individuals. in this paper a new method for finger vein recognition is proposed. first the veins are extracted from finger vein images by using entropy based thresholding. in finger vein images the veins are appeared as dark lines. the method extracts veins as well, but the images are noisy, that means in addition to the veins the...