abdominal wall hernias are common problems found in patients with cirrhosis because of persistently high intra-abdominal pressure. when abdominal hernias are neglected in such patients, they may become larger and could result in cosmetic problems and pressure effects that are also difficult to treat. we found a voluminous mass in the anterior abdominal wall of a 40-year-old patient with cirrhos...

background ziziphora tenuior l. known as kakuti in persian, is used in traditional medicine for fever, dysentery, uterus infection and as an analgesic. it is used also in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders as carminative, or remedy of diarrhea or nausea. major components of plant essential oil including pulegone, isomenthone, thymol, menthone, and piperitone are suggested to be respons...

background valproic acid is widely used as an anticonvulsant and mood-stabilizing drug in the treatment of epilepsy. determination of serum valproic acid is required in epilepsy therapy for efficient control of seizures. objectives in the present study, the gas chromatography method was applied to determine serum valproic acid and resulting data were compared with those obtained by high perform...

Risk assessment is critical to ensure the safe operation of oil and gas pipeline systems. The core content such risk determine failure probability pipelines quantitatively accurately. Hence, this study combines MATLAB neural network toolbox adopts an Radial Basis Functions (RBF) with a strong non-linear mapping relationship build corrosion prediction model for buried gathering transmission pipe...

The assessment of the temperature factor influence on pressure pipeline hydraulic operation mode is very relevant, since it considered primarily as an opportunity to reduce cost mechanical water transportation. Smaller pipe resistances save electrical energy consumption, and has additional positive effect saving process. purpose research identify nature changes in friction value relation condit...

Pipelines in the offshore sector make common use of polypropylene (and other polymer) coating systems to protect infrastructure and provide thermal insulation. High pressure high temperature pipelines are subject large axial loads due restraint by seafloor soils strains pipe wall. Friction between material soil plays a defining role build-up stress formation lateral buckling. Accurate quantific...

The Human Connectome Project (HCP) faces the challenging task of bringing multiple magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) modalities together in a common automated preprocessing framework across a large cohort of subjects. The MRI data acquired by the HCP differ in many ways from data acquired on conventional 3 Tesla scanners and often require newly developed preprocessing methods. We describe the mi...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized plant and animal research in many ways including new methods of high throughput genotyping. Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) has been demonstrated to be a robust and cost-effective genotyping method capable of producing thousands to millions of SNPs across a wide range of species. Undoubtedly, the greatest barrier to its broader use is the chall...