Breast cancer is a complicated disease that it is accompanied by different symptoms. Diagnosis of this disease is performed by various techniques. Using Radiopharmaceuticals is a new method to diagnose the said tumors. [18F]-FPTT is one of these nuclear medicines for detection of breast cancer. It seems that the binding of the title radiopharmaceutical to the progesterone receptor is...

non-destructive ultrasonic testing is one of the methods utilized to evaluate quality of agricultural produce. transducers used in this method are made for basically industrial applications. since ultrasonic attenuation of waves in agricultural produce is very high, industrial transducers cannot be used in agriculture and needs to be modified. this is done with horns that concentrate energy on ...

methods and materials: hepatitis b virus dna was detected by conventional pcr in some of the serum samples obtained from hbsag-positive chronic hepatitis b (chb) patients who were referred to health centers of shahrekord for routine monitoring of the disease. subsequently, using real-time pcr, the dna samples were used for genotyping and analysis of resistance to lamivudine. results: the dna wa...

In the recent decades robotic and computer science have been gaining more and more relevance in all aspects of our lives. In surgery, for example, they gave birth to procedures that would be impossible to perform otherwise (e.g. tele-surgery, nano-surgery). On this regard, these applied sciences already play an important role in assisting the surgeon both in the operative room and as a support ...

This is Part II of a two-part series. Pan I showed how pure and generalized network models, and advances in methods of solving them. have resulted in dramatic cost savings for OR/MS practitioners. This paper focuses on network related formulation (NETFORM) models, which encompass an even wider variety of applications. We show how NETFORM has enabled the efficient solution of problems in schedul...

EVALUATING FLUORESCENCE ILLUMINATION TECHNIQUES FOR SKIN LESION DIAGNOSIS Suhail M. Odeh a , Francisco de Toro b , Ignacio Rojas c & María José Saéz-Lara d a Computer Information Systems Department, Bethlehem University, Faculty of Science, Bethlehem, Palestine b Department of Signal Theory, Telematics and Communications, University of Granada-CITIC, Granada, Spain c Department of Computer Arch...

BACKGROUND Glucose is a major oxidative substrate for intestinal energy generation in neonatal animals; however, few data in preterm infants are available. Early administration of enteral nutrition, including glucose, may be an effective strategy to support intestinal adaptation to extrauterine life in preterm neonates. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to quantify the first-pass...

The course \Computer Arithmetic and Numerical Tech-niques" at the University of Antwerp, is an introductory scientiic computing course for students with a major in computer science or a combined major mathemat-ics/computer science. But it could as well be taught to any exact or applied science student with a reasonable high-school background in mathematics and a fair interest in computers. It i...