The same sherd was analyzed using a scanning electron microscope with energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) and a micro X-ray fluorescence tube attached to a scanning electron microscope (Micro-XRF-SEM) to compare the effectiveness of elemental detection of iron-based pigment. To enhance SEM-EDS mapping, the sherd was carbon coated. The carbon coating was not required to produce Micro-XRF-SE...

Lapis lazuli has been used for more than 7000 years for the manufacture of precious objects and jewels. The main quarries for this stone are still active in Afghanistan, but there are other quarries that could have been exploited since antiquity in the Pamir mountains (Tajikistan), in Pakistan and in Siberia. For this reason a provenance study of lapis lazuli could provide answers to some impor...

Recently introduced FIB/SEM analysis in microscopy seems to provide a high-resolution characterization of the samples by 3D (FIB) cross-sectioning and (SEM) high resolution imaging. The aim of this study was to apply the FIB/SEM and SEM/EDS analysis to the interfaces of a metal-ceramic vs. two zirconia-ceramic systems. Plate samples of three different prosthetic systems were prepared in the den...

Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disorder caused by environmental and genetic factors. The purpose of this study was to analyse the possible influence of functional variants of genes of OCTN cation transporters on the carnitine ester profile of patients with CD. Genotyping for SLC22A4 1672C --> T, SLC22A5-207G --> C mutations and three common NOD2 variants (R702W, G908R and ...

پیرو یافتن تک‌یاخته­ی Hepatozoon canis و نماتود Cercopithifilaria bainae در سگ­های ایران، این مطالعه با هدف تشخیص ناقلین بالقوه­ی دو انگل میان کنه­های جمع­آوری شده از ۵ استان ایران انجام شد. مهر ماه 1397 تا خرداد 1401 تعداد 222 قلاده سگ صاحبدار 541 ولگرد استان­های­ همدان (305 قلاده)، کرمانشاه (227 یزد (80 خوزستان (71 قلاده) مازندران جهت آلودگی به کنه­ مورد بررسی قرار گرفتند. جمع آوری (3339 عدد)...

Structural equation models are very common in medical, social, management and behavioral sciences where researchers established some causal relations between observed variables latent variable. In structured populations the assumption of independence observations is often violated had been ignored by researchers. As a result with correlated structure error terms, biased estimates parameters hav...