rhinosporidiosis is a granulomatous disorder caused by rhinosporidium seeberi, an aquatic parasite. it spreads through contaminated water and soil. it frequently involves the nasal cavity and nasopharynx. disseminated or systemic lesions are rare. a 56 year old man presented with multiple tumor like lesions all over the body in our cancer institute in april 2012. fine needle aspiration cytology...

angiosarcomas are endothelial cell neoplasms in the lining of the blood vessel wall and account for about 0.04% of all breast malignancies with a high rate of error in primary diagnosis. the breast angiosarcoma is a rare and uncommon pathology and has been described mostly as case reports. indeed, only a limited number of cases have been published. accordingly, the natural history of this tumor...

amblyomma lepidum (donitz, 1909), collected on sheep from gilan gharb, is reported for the first time from iran. the species has been reported from sudan, ethiopia, kenya, egypt and zanzibar as well. male diagnosis: a small to medium – sized tick; scutum with characteristic ornamentations; postero- median stripe broad at the base, slightly knobbed at the anterior extremity, not reaching the fal...

The boom of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology and its applications to a wide range of biomedical fields has brought about many computational and statistical challenges. The NHGRI funded small conference “Statistical Analysis for Next Generation Sequencing” was held September 26 -27 2011 in Birmingham, AL, to discuss these statistical challenges and strategies to tackle them. A total o...

Commissioned by the Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice Review Team with the support of ICANN, this study is focused on measuring rates of common forms of abusive activities in the domain name system. We conduct a comprehensive study examining malicious behavior in the global DNS and compare abuse rates in new and legacy gTLDs. We combine data sets from many sources, including zone...

Wavelet{based techniques has long been known in signal/image processing literature, and applied into various applications such as denoising and compression. As a separate framework, hidden Markov model (HMM) has been widely used to provide formal statistical models. This projects follows the paper by M. Crouse et al 1], trying to make the connection between these two separate concepts. The wave...

Background: A systematic review is a rigorous method for assessing and aggregating research results. Unlike an ordinary literature review consisting of an annotated bibliography, a systematic review analyzes existing literature with reference to specific research questions on a topic of interest. Objective: Statistical Process Control (SPC) is a well established technique in manufacturing conte...

hymenolepis diminuta is a cestode frequently found in rodents and humans. species of flour moths of the genus pyralis and bee­tles in the genus tribolium are common intermediate hosts. humans can be accidentally infected through the ingestion of the insects, including larvae in precooked cereals, dried fruits or other food items, and directly by ingesting the insects from the environment. this ...