purpose: one of the major causes of visual acuity loss in diabetic patients is diabetic macular edema (dme). best-corrected visual acuity and central macular thickness changes are considered as two main outcomes in diabetic macular patients. the goal of this study was to compare the effect of intravitreal bevacizumab injection alone or combined with triamcinolone versus macular photocoagulation...

introduction: high frequency alternating currents is a safe, reversible and selective method for nerve conduction block that has been under study during the last decade as a treatment for the diseases involving abnormal neural impulses. however, reducing the stimulus amplitude, and the undesired onset response, as well as optimizing the stimulus parameters for more effective block is still unde...

in this thesis we predict asymmetric risk premium in bothvalue and growth stock portfolios. there are two competingapproaches to explain value premium: market over-reactionhypothesis based on which agents overstate future returns on growthstock, and rational market risk hypothesis that says value stocks areinherently riskier than growth stocks. rational market riskhypothesis has two different e...

The protein kinase Aurora-A is required for centrosome maturation, spindle assembly, and asymmetric protein localization during mitosis. Here, we describe the identification of Bora, a conserved protein that is required for the activation of Aurora-A at the onset of mitosis. In the Drosophila peripheral nervous system, bora mutants have defects during asymmetric cell division identical to those...

The standard model of distributed constraints optimization problems (DCOPs), assumes that the cost of a constraint is checked by one of the agents involved in the constraint. For DCOPs this is equivalent to the assumption that each constraint has a global cost which applies to each of the participating agents and in other words that all constraints are symmetric. Many multi agent system (MAS) p...