Activated leukocytes and fat particles are associated with organ injury after a cardiac surgery. Filters are currently used to remove either leukocytes or fat particles. A novel approach with a filter that combines leukocyte and fat removal might be clinically useful. As it is not known which type of filter has a good and safe performance in both leukocyte and fat removal, we measured in this s...

Introduction: To assess the relationship between parental consanguinity and permanent congenital hypothyroidism (PCH). Materials And Methods: From February 1998 to August 2002, cord dried blood spot samples, viz. only live births, in eight hospitals and a rural birth center in Tehran and Damavand were collected on Whatman BFC 180 filter papers. Samples with cord TSH  20 mU/L (two-site IRMA) ...

an air filter is a significant element of any mechanical ventilation system. however, the importance and performance evaluation of air filters have not been well publicized and related scientific reports are scarce. in this study, a transportable, off-line, air filter-testing unit (the unit) was designed and utilized to simulate the filter housing of a mechanical ventilation system. the unit wa...

Numerical comparison serves as a major tool in evaluating the performance of optimization algorithms, especially nondeterministic but existing methods may suffer from ‘cycle ranking’ paradox and/or ‘survival non-fittest’ paradox. This paper searches for paradox-free data analysis numerical comparison. It is discovered that class sufficient conditions exist designing ...

In this paper, we find a strong new restriction on the structure of CI-groups. We show that, if R is generalised dihedral group and CI-group, then for every odd prime p Sylow p-subgroup has order p, or 9. Consequently, any CI-group with quotient same restriction, that

The theory When reading a research report, the range of the CI provides assurance (or confi dence) regarding how precise the data are. CIs are calculated at a confi dence level, for example 95%. This level is predetermined by the researcher. Confi dence levels are usually calculated so that this percentage is 95% although others 90%, 99%, and 99.9% are sometimes applied. Researchers collect num...