background this study aim to determine the association between height and cancer in the children aged 14 years at the time of diagnosis in rasht, iran. materials and methods in this cross-sectional study, height of patients with a malignancy (≤14) at the time of diagnosis measured in the standard charts of united states national center for the health statistics (nchs). data were reported by des...

this research studies the potential impact of climate change on future trend and changes of two well known drought indicators namely rdi and spi in yazd meteorological station, in central part of iran. for this purpose, data of hadcm3 model that were resulted from gcm-runs based on the ipcc-sres scenarios of a2 and b2 were acquired and analyzed for projection of daily tmin, tmax and precipitati...

US surface O3 responds to varying global-toregional precursor emissions, climate, and extreme weather, with implications for designing effective air quality control policies. We examine these conjoined processes with observations and global chemistry-climate model (GFDLAM3) hindcasts over 1980–2014. The model captures the salient features of observed trends in daily maximum 8 h average O3: (1) ...

Financial activities involve risk. Our stock or mutual fund holdings carry the risk of losing value due to market conditions. Even money invested in a bank carries a risk–that of the bank going bankrupt and never returning the money let alone some interest. While individuals generally just have to live with such risks, financial and other institutions can and very often must manage risk using s...

PURPOSE A2-E is the dominant fluorophore of lipofuscin in the retinal pigment epithelium. In an in-vitro setup, we determined the temperature-dependent changes of the A2-E fluorescence with the aim of also assessing the potential value of such measurements for determining retinal temperature by autofluorescence measurements during laser treatment. METHODS A2-E was biosynthesized and diluted i...

Computational technologies are changing rapidly due to fast and huge demand for computational power for variety of applications, societal factors and advances in science and technology. It is difficult to forecast exact nature of future computational technologies due to multiple and dynamic factors influencing technology advances. The paper focuses on computational technology trend from macro p...

INTRODUCTION During 2016, the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) introduced laboratory-based reflexed Cryptococcal antigen (CrAg) screening to detect early Cryptococcal disease in immunosuppressed HIV+ patients with a confirmed CD4 count of 100 cells/μl or less. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess cost-per-result of a national screening program across different tiers of labor...

one of the big concerns of big cities is facing with the increase of fossil fuel vehicles in the roads. the cars intensify greenhouse gas emission in civic centers. one approach to reduce the emission is replacing the cars by plug-in electric vehicles (pevs). in spite of reducing the emission, pevs have some adverse effect on electric distribution networks. technical challenges such as load and...

[1] We present ocean chemistry calculations based on ocean general circulation model simulations of atmospheric CO2 emission, stabilization of atmospheric CO2 content, and stabilization of atmospheric CO2 achieved in total or in part by injection of CO2 to the deep ocean interior. Our goal is to provide first-order results from various CO2 pathways, allowing correspondence with studies of marin...