Objective(s): Use of a positron emission tomography (PET)/single-photonemission computed tomography (SPECT) system facilitates the simultaneousacquisition of images with fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) andtechnetium (99mTc)-tetrofosmin. However, 18F has a short half-life, and 511keV Compton-scattered photons are detected in the 99mTc energy window.Therefore, in this study, we aimed to ...

In recent years, there have been many researches about Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) which is available to communicate freely between mobile devices by using multi-hop without any support of relay base or access point. TCP that used the most widely transport protocol in the Internet repeats packet loss and retransmission because it increases congestion window size by using reactive congestion...

Various segmentation algorithms have been proposed for better classification of the highly nonstationary heart sounds. This paper proposes an improved segmentation technique based on Shannon Energy calculation of the phonocardiogram using adaptive windows. The major focus of the research has been on a simple yet comprehensive signal representation as well as on extracting most information from ...

the aim of this study was to compare the lateral window and osteotome techniques for sinus lifting using histological and histomorphometric methods.in this clinical trial 10 patients (a total number of 14 sinus areas) who needed implant treatment in the atrophic posterior maxilla were enrolled. in all the cases the residual bone height between the sinus floor and the alveolar crest was less tha...

background: the aim of this study was to determine the correlation between ultrastructural studies for pinopodes expression after ovarian hyperstimulation and progesterone injection in mice. materials and methods: adult nmri mice were superovulated using human menopasual gonadotropic (hmg) and human chorionic gonadotropic (hcg) hormones; after that, daily injection of progesterone (1 mg/mouse) ...

In the area of wireless mobile communication, minimizing energy consumption as well as maximizing data throughput in medium access control (MAC) layer is a very important research issue. The Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) of IEEE 802.11 provides the power saving mechanism (PSM) that allows nodes to remain silent in ‘doze mode’ for reducing energy consumption. However, IEEE 802.11 PSM i...

the numerical investigation of computing the rate of radiated solar-energy requires equations as a function of solar-time according to the radiation angle of the sun (β) in the latitude 37°n and the shape. this paper implements the lagrange interpolation to obtain the equations of normal diagram of elements based on data obtained from surveying. also the method of hann-window equation used to e...

The most attractive solution of the strong CP problem is to introduce the Peccei-Quinn global symmetry which is spontaneously broken at energy scale fa [1]. Although the original axion model has been experimentally excluded, variant “invisible” axion models are still viable. Such models are referred to as hadronic [2] and Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitskǐı [3] axions. At present, these “invisi...

In a healthcare environment a window is necessary to transmit daylight and provide outside view to enhance therapeutic performance. However, a window impacts on several environmental attributes of the indoor space. Depending on the size, orientation and solar shading configuration, a window influences on visual and thermal comfort, as well as on the energy consumption of the building. It is thu...