Methods Out of 35 patients with JIA, enrolled after parental consent, 31 (23 males and 8 females) completed the study. Mean age of the patients was 9.8 years (Range 6.114.5 years). The patients were enrolled when they demonstrated active disease at presentation or during relapse, as ‘active disease group’ and followed up regularly at 6-8 weekly intervals, till they improved with treatment. Dise...

X-ray bright quasars might be used to trace dust in the circumgalactic and intergalactic medium through the phenomenon of X-ray scattering, which is observed around Galactic objects whose light passes through a sufficient column of interstellar gas and dust. Of particular interest is the abundance of gray dust larger than m 0.1 m, which is difficult to detect at other wavelengths. To calculate ...

We examine three topics at the interface between spline theory and algebraic geometry. In the first part, we show how the concept of domain points can be used to give an original explanation of Dehn–Sommerville equations relating the numbers of i-faces of a simplicial polytope in R, i = 0. . . . , n − 1. In the second part, we echo some joint works with T. Sorokina and with P. Clarke on computa...

We present a 7 yr timing study of the 2.5 ms X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658, an X-ray transient with a recurrence time of =2 yr, using data from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer covering 4 transient outbursts (1998-2005). Substantial pulse shape variability, both stochastic and systematic, was observed during each outburst. Analysis of the systematic pulse shape changes suggests that, as an outbu...

The Leucosphyrus Group of the genus Anopheles, subgenus Cellia, is divided into three subordinate groups based upon an analysis of relative lengths of the female proboscis, maxillary palpus and forefemur, and the relationships among them. The Elegans, Leucosphyrus and Riparis Subgroups are proposed and currently recognized taxa are assigned to each. Assignment of species to the Dirus and Leucos...

هدف: به‌کارگیری فناوری رایانش ابری، روند جدیدی در جهان امروز می‌باشد. ابری یکی از فناوری‌های اطلاعاتی نسل جدید است که روز به بیشتر کشورها محبوبیت بیشتری پیدا می‌کند. سال‌های اخیر سازمان‌ها شروع انتخاب مدل‌های خود می‌کنند. مؤسسات آموزشی، به‌ویژه دانشگاه‌ها و مدارس، نمی‌توانند مزایای قابل توجهی را برای آن‌ها همراه دارد، نادیده بگیرند با توجه رو رشد استفاده آن غفلت نمایند. هدف اصلی این پژوهش شناسا...

1,1-Bis(3 -indolyl)-1-(p-substitutedphenyl)methanes (C-DIMs) containing para-trifluoromethyl, t-butyl, and phenyl groups are a novel class of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) agonists. In LNCaP prostate cancer cells, these compounds induce PPAR -dependent transactivation, inhibit cell proliferation, and induce apoptosis. In addition, these PPAR agonists modulate a number of ant...

After the appearance of [T3] I received an e-mail from Cumrun Vafa, who recognized that the subject is closely related to that of his preprint [V]. This text started out as an e-mail “reply” to his letter. All the constructions we propose have well known “spectral curve” prototypes (see for example Friedman and other [FMW], Bershadsky and other [BJPS] and a number of others). Roughly speaking, ...