In late 2013, an open call for charcoal and biochar samples was distributed in effort to compare a wide range of char by Raman spectroscopy. The contributed this survey included: laboratory produced biochars, recent biochars field conditions, ancient previously analysed carbon dating. By using selected measurements, the could be ranked terms degree thermochemical alteration or extent nanostruct...

To inform public health efforts to prevent epilepsy-related deaths, we used the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER; Wonder.cdc.gov) to examine any-listed epilepsy deaths for the period 2005-2014 by age groups (≤24, 25-44, 45-64, 65-84, ≥85years), sex, and race/ethnicity (non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic African American, Hispan...

background: common carotid intima-media thickness (cc-imt) measured by ultrasonography as a non-invasive method is nowadays known as a marker for early atherosclerosis. objectives: survey the relationship between serum uric acid and carotid intima-media thickness considering hypertension. materials and methods: this study was designed as a comparative cross-sectional study in northern iran in 2...

Use Cases (UC) are a popular way of describing system behavior and UC quality impacts the overall system quality. However, they are presented in natural language, which is usually the cause of issues related to imprecision, ambiguity, and incompleteness. We present the results of an empirical study on the formalization of UCs as Graph Transformation models (GTs) with the goal of running tool-su...

OBJECTIVES To describe the evolution of non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages consumption in the Spanish households from the 60's to nowadays. METHODS This study is based on beverages and food consumption in Spanish households; the data sample consisted of consumption and distribution data, obtained from the Household Budget Survey (HBS) since 1964 to 1991 and from the Food Consumption Survey...

context randomized controlled trials (rcts) are important tools for evidence-based health care decisions. it is, therefore, important that they be conducted and reported with the highest possible standards. the aim of this study was to evaluate the reporting quality of the rcts published in nephrology urology monthly journal and to examine whether there was a change over time in the reporting q...

objective: to evaluate the effect of advance trauma life support (atls®) training on general surgery residents clinical reasoning skills using the national boards-style objective structured clinical examination (osce). methods: this cross-sectional single-center study was conducted in shiraz university of medical sciences including 51 surgery residents that participated in a mandatory national ...