background: this cross-sectional study was conducted to compare the cost-effectiveness of three therapeutic methods of long-term hemodialysis, kidney transplant from a living person and kidney transplant from a cadaver utilizing disability adjusted life years (daly) using data from the records of patients referred to afzalipour hospital of kerman in 2012.   methods: this cross-sectional study u...

for maintaining of zagros forests role in wild life, water and soil conservation, the suitable solutions and methods for assessing the existing conditions and planning for management of this forests should be given. to detection of suitable sampling method to study tree diameter at breath height in the northern zagros forest, blake forest, in baneeh region, kurdistan province, and west of iran ...

Reliability of a system is the probability that it will function as intended for the required period of time. The opposite of reliability is failure probability per unit time or over time, such as a life cycle. Following a review of existing reliability codes and approaches, comprehensive approaches to assess the reliability of offshore structures are described, including probabilistic analysis...

The tripartite division of cellular organisms into three domains – the Bacteria, the Archaea and the Eukarya – has become so ingrained that most of us have all but forgotten (or did not even know) that the ancestry and relationships among these ancient lineages are far from settled. The most widely accepted view, which emerged primarily from analyses of anciently duplicated genes (Gogarten et a...