objective: the aim of our study was to find the relationship of mpv (mean platelet volume) levels and platelet counts as markers of inflammation between simple and complex febrile seizures. methods: in this retrospective comparative study, we investigated the recordings of 356 children between 5 months and 6 years with diagnosis of simple and complex febrile seizure (sfs&cfs;) between march 201...

background: given the paucity of data on possible testis changes in opioid dependents, we sought to compare the testis volumes between a group of opium dependents and a group of healthy controls. objective: comparison of testis volume between opium dependents and healthy controls. materials and methods: this case-control study recruited 100 men with opium dependency (cases) and 100 healthy men ...

introduction: the limited resolution of the imaging system causes partial volume effects (pves). these results in spreading of image counts to the neighboring pixels. this phenomenon is called spill-out effect. this study aimed at quantifying pves using imagej. methods:technetium-99m solution of concentration of 74 kbq/ml was filled into spheres a, b and c of diameters: 26 mm, 20 mm and 16 mm r...

BACKGROUND Chronic airway diseases are often associated with marked mucus production, however, little is known about the regulation of secretory activity by locally released endogenous mediators. AIM This investigation was performed to determine the release of MUC5AC mucin from human bronchial preparations using the purinergic agonists adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) and uridine 5'-triphospha...

A self-consistent theory is derived to describe the BCS–Bose-Einstein-condensate crossover for a strongly interacting Fermi gas with a Feshbach resonance. In the theory the fluctuation of the dressed molecules, consisting of both preformed Cooper pairs and “bare” Feshbach molecules, has been included within a selfconsistent T-matrix approximation, beyond the Nozières and Schmitt-Rink strategy c...

In this paper, a method for attitude determination from vector observation suitable for Micro Aerial Vehicle application is proposed. The attitude determination algorithm is an estimator which uses a measurement equation derived from the linearization of the non-linear function which maps vectors from one coordinate frame to the other. The physical realization of the system uses Earth’s magneti...

Previous researches have shown that the digital image color intensity could reflect the crops N status, but there is little information about the comparision of spectrum reflectance in the visible bands with the digital imagery color intensities. A field experiment was conducted to compare the wheat canopy reflectance at visible bands (400-700 nm) at shooting stage with near ground digital imag...

background: echocardiography is the most common test used for the evaluation of aortic regurgitation (ar). however, the role of echocardiography as an available and inexpensive method in the quantification of ar by the left ventricle to right ventricle stroke volume ratio (lv/rv sv ratio) has not been completely investigated. methods: between june 2005 and december 2007, 132 consecutive patient...

there are a number of techniques available to estimate saturated-liquid molar or specific volumes or densities of liquids. in this study, a new empirical correlation is presented to calculate volume of saturated liquids as a function of critical volume, reduced temperature and acentric factor. an optimization algorithm is utilized to obtain unknown parameters of this correlation by fitting them...