Background: Various environmental factors can induce or exaggerate hand eczema. Objective: Evaluation of patch test results in hand eczema patients. Patients and Methods: In this descriptive study 100 patients with hand eczema referred to Loghman Hakim and Booali Hospital in Tehran underwent patch testing with 23 allergens obtained from Hermal company. Results: 240 positive reactions observed i...

Abstract Aim Primary ventral hernias and incisional are frequent, but long–term results of their repair with a preformed patch scarce. The aim was to evaluate the surgical treatment these open intraperitoneal onlay mesh (open IPOM) technique, determine needed follow–up for recurrence. Material methods Observational retrospective single institution study all consecutive patients intervened or he...

In this work, an investigation into the influence of prescribed motion on a body caudal fin aquatic unmanned vehicle (AUV) energy harvester is carried out. The undulatory–oscillation locomotion inspired by fishes actuates composite beam representative spinal column with piezoelectric patch. Two patch configurations—one at head and tail—are considered for AUV harvester, length that would not act...

Budding is a good method of propagation in the Persian walnut (Juglans regia L.)., However, success of budding is low due to higher root pressure as well as the presence of phenolic compounds in the xylem sap. This study was conducted to compare various budding methods and cut below budding union on two and three-year-old Persian walnut under field conditions. The experiment was conducted based...

Models estimating surface energy fluxes over partial canopy cover with thermal remote sensing must account for significant differences between the radiometric temperatures and turbulent exchange rates associated with the soil and canopy components of the thermal pixel scene. Recent progress in separating soil and canopy temperatures from dual angle composite radiometric temperature measurements...

Several researchers and clinicians have taken advantage of the omentum's rich vascular arcades to support skin grafts. We have previously described an experimental model using the omentum as a vascular carrier for prefabricated free flaps in the rat. In this study, we used this model to compare three different sizes of free flaps using the same size omental carrier. Twenty-four male Sprague-Daw...

a-10-year-old girl was referred to our department for multiple hyperpigmented plaques. one  week  previously,  she  had  been  given  one  suppository  of  acetylsalicylic acid  – phenobarbital for fever. twelve hours after the drug intake the child developed pruritic red plaques on the left thigh. six weeks after resolution of the acute reaction, patch tests were performed separately, with phe...

In this paper, we study applications of the virtual element method (VEM) for simulating deformation multiphase composites. The VEM is a Galerkin approach that applicable to meshes consist arbitrarily-shaped polygonal and polyhedral (simple nonsimple) elements. VEM, basis functions are defined as solution local elliptic partial differential equation, never explicitly computed in implementation m...