background: acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) is a fatal viral disease which can affect the patient’s immune system and render the patient susceptible to opportunistic infections. in recent years, the number of women with hiv acquired through sexual transmission has increased. therefore, due to the importance of quality of life (qol) among these women and the impact of violence and soc...

In this paper, we address the problem of k-out-of-l exclusion, a generalization of the mutual exclusion problem, in which there are l units of a shared resource, and any process can request up to k units (1 ≤ k ≤ l). We propose the first deterministic self-stabilizing distributed k-out-of-l exclusion protocol in message-passing systems for asynchronous oriented tree networks which assumes bound...

Background: Early diagnosis of patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's, known as mild cognitive impairment, is of great importance in the treatment of this disease. If a patient can be diagnosed at this stage, it is possible to treat or delay Alzheimer's disease. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is very common in the process of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease. In th...

In this paper, we propose a self-stabilizing mutual exclusion algorithm using tokens for the mobile ad hoc network. Since the liveness condition of mutual exclusion can’t be guaranteed by any algorithm for a mobile ad hoc network with arbitary mobility, we consider a mobile ad hoc network with restricted mobility. Our algorithm is based on the dynamic virtual rings formed by the token circulati...

Recently, Naiman and Wynn introduced the concept of an abstract tube in order to obtain improved inclusion-exclusion identities and inequalities that involve much fewer terms than their classical counterparts. In this paper, we introduce a particular class of abstract tubes which plays an important role with respect to chromatic polynomials and network reliability. The inclusionexclusion identi...

Background and Aim: Fertility declining to a level too low for replacement and preventing its negative consequences have led to changes in the country's population policies. Understanding the causes of declining fertility and proper policymaking to increase it requires prompt action on the part of researchers and policymakers in different social and health fields. The purpose of this study was ...

This paper presents the implementation and performance evaluation of Locust, a compiler-directed distributed shared memory system on a network of workstations. The thesis of the Locust project is that the distributed shared memory program performance can closely approximate message passing program performance if compiler-generated data dependency information is eeectively exploited. Locust uses...

Background: Although studies reported diabetes mellitus screening cost effective, the mass screening for type2 diabetes remains controversial. In this study we reviewed the recently evidence about the cost effectiveness of mass screening systematically.   Methods: We reviewed the MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science (WOS), and Cochrane library databases by MeSH terms to identify relevan...