background : a multidimensional approach to health which addresses the psychological features of health justifies the necessity of designing or validation of brief instruments for screening in general population. this study aims to evaluate the reliability and validity of the persian version of the who-5-p as a brief scale of well-being. methods : in this study 451 individuals, i.e., over-15-ye...

This paper presents a recently developed particle simulation code package PIFE-PIC, which is novel three-dimensional (3-D) parallel immersed finite element (IFE) particle-in-cell (PIC) model for simulations of plasma-material interactions. framework based on the nonhomogeneous electrostatic IFE-PIC algorithm, designed to handle complex interface conditions associated with irregular geometries u...

The dynamics and interactions between stem cell pools in the hair follicle (HF), sebaceous gland (SG), and interfollicular epidermis (IFE) of murine skin are still poorly understood. In this study, we used multicolor lineage tracing to mark Lgr6⁺ -expressing basal cells in the HF isthmus, SG, and IFE.We show that these Lgr6⁺ cells constitute long-term self-renewing populations within each compa...

The chamber wall armor is subject to demanding conditions in both inertial fusion energy (IFE) and magnetic fusion energy (MFE) chambers. This paper assesses the requirements on armor imposed by the operating conditions in IFE and MFE, including energy deposition density, time of deposition and frequencies, and discusses their impact on the performance of the candidate armor materials. # 2002 E...

Diabetes is a major health problem inherent to people at all age groups in developing countries. Conventionally, diagnosis of this condition was based on blood sugar level however, its effect can be traced from other symptoms such as Body Mass Index, and Blood Pressure. This paper presents a decision support model that can be used by diabetic patients and medical practitioners for diagnosis and...

Comparison and evaluation of modelled and GOME measurement derived tropospheric NO2 columns over Western and Eastern Europe I. B. Konovalov , M. Beekmann, R. Vautard, J. P. Burrows, A. Richter, H. Nüß, and N. Elansky Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia Service d’Aéronomie, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France Laboratoire de Météorogie Dyna...

Current models of how mouse tail interfollicular epidermis (ife) is maintained overlook the coexistence of two distinct terminal differentiation programs: parakeratotic (scale) and orthokeratotic (interscale). lineage tracing and clonal analysis revealed that scale and interscale are maintained by unipotent cells in the underlying basal layer, with scale progenitors dividing more rapidly than i...

abstract the assessment of ripeness is a major part of quality evaluation and depends on several factors such as soluble solid content (ssc), acidity and firmness. most of the methods that measure these qualities are destructive. so it is essential to develop an efficient and nondestructive method for measuring internal attributes of fruit. the objective of this study was to investigate visible...

A 71-year-old woman with a 9-year history of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance presented with anemia [hemoglobin, 11.6 g/dL (116 g/L); reference interval (RI), 12–15.5 g/dL (120 –155 g/L)], an increased serum calcium concentration [10.2 mg/dL (2.55 mmol/L); RI, 8.9 –10.1 mg/dL (2.22–2.52 mmol/L)], and a 4800-mg/dL (48-g/L) monoclonal protein band (M-spike) after serum protein e...

An interaction-free evolution (IFE) of a quantum system is an evolution which is not influenced by a certain part of the Hamiltonian which is addressed as the interaction term [1]. In other words, the dynamics generated by the ‘unperturbed’ Hamiltonian H0 is essentially the same as the evolution generated by the total Hamiltonian which is the sum of H0 and the interaction term HI: H = H0 + HI. ...