background: zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl) is an expanding disease and public health problem in iran. in the current study, natural leishmania infection rate and seasonal fluctuation of the infection in rhombomys opimus population of a hyperendemic focus of zcl in iran was investigated. methods:   the study was conducted from october 2006 to october 2008 in esfahan province, central par...

In telemedicine while transferring medical images tampers may be introduced. Before making any diagnostic decisions, the integrity of region of interest (ROI) of the received medical image must be verified to avoid misdiagnosis. In this paper, we propose a novel fragile block based medical image watermarking technique to avoid embedding distortion inside ROI, verify integrity of ROI, detect acc...

Natural Language processing (NLP) is a field that combines linguistics, cognitive science, statistical machine learning and other computer science areas in order to compile intelligent computer systems that can understand human languages. NLP has various applications, among which are machine translation, question answering and search engines. The field of NLP has, in the past two decades, come ...

In this study, an open, double-blind, randomized, two-period, two-group crossover design was conducted in 14 healthy volunteers to study the bioequivalence of a fixed-dose generic product. After administration of test or reference products to each volunteer, both active ingredients were determined simultaneously in plasma samples using a developed and validated HPLC-UV method, and pharmacokinet...

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This study utilized a data envelopment analysis model to the performance persistence of 16 asset management institutions. When we evaluate based on capital efficiency (or productivity) ratio, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) margin, return investment (ROI), find that only one bank has consistently outperformed its peers every year from 2014 2019. add tax ...