PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify symptom clusters that include urinary and erectile dysfunction among men treated for prostate cancer. DESIGN Secondary data analysis. SETTING University-affiliated urology clinic. SAMPLE Data collected on 402 men for a longitudinal prostate cancer quality-of-life study. METHODS Data were collected from an eight-month time point. Four analytic approaches we...

an efficient procedure is presented for the evaluation of solid oxide fuel cell (sofc) anode microstructure triple phase boundary length (tpbl). triple phase boundary- the one that is common between three phases of the microstructure- has a great influence on the overall efficiency of sofc because all electrochemical reactions of anode take place in its vicinity. therefore, evaluation of tpbl f...

Epigenetic changes occur frequently in Wilms' tumor (WT), especially loss of imprinting (LOI) of IGF2/H19 at 11p15. Our previous results have identified imprinted transcripts (WT1-AS and AWT1) from the WT1 locus at 11p13 and showed LOI of these in some WTs. In this article, we set out to test the relationship between LOI at 11p13 and 11p15 and their timing in WT progression relative to other ge...

the capacitated clustering problem (ccp) is one of the most importantcombinational optimization problems that nowadays has many real applications inindustrial and service problems. in the ccp, a given n nodes with known demandsmust be partitioned into k distinct clusters in which each cluster is detailed by anode acting as a cluster center of this cluster. the objective is to minimize the sumof...

Considering the importance of Theileria equi infection in horse breeding industry and marketing, in the present study, we aimed to determine the prevalence of T. equi among dromedaries in central Iran, where a considerable number of camels and horses are raised and equine theileriosis is quite prevalent. For this purpose, a total of 161 blood samples from camels were examined in terms of T. equ...

three species of paratylenchus were collected and identified from vineyards and apple orchards in kermanshah province, western iran. descriptions, morphometric data, line drawings and microscopic photographs are provided for these three species. paratylenchus audriellus and paratylenchus straeleni are the two very closely related species, with a stylet longer than 40 µm, four lateral lines and ...