years. however, the nature and initial factors associated with this serious health problem have not been studied yet. methods: to understand this issue, a cross-sectional study was conducted and sixty treatment and nontreatment seekers who met the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 4th ed., text revision (dsm.iv-tr) criteria for drug dependence with mean age of 28.7 (± 8.3) ...

background a review of the related medical journals indicates that there is no definite evidence-based option for managing large proximal ureteral stones, although many procedures such as transureteral lithotripsy (tul), shock wave lithotripsy (swl), percutaneous nephrolithotripsy, laparoscopic ureterolithotomy, and open ureterolithotomy are currently used to treat this urological problem. obje...

results under the above chromatography condition, biuret compound (peqb) and the internal standard were detected at 4.5 and 13.5 minutes, respectively. limit of quantitation of the peqb was 0.1 µg/ml. accuracy of the method over the concentration range of 0.1-100 µg/ml was between 88-109%. inter- and intraday precisions were 4-19% and 6-8%, respectively. a good relationship in the form of a pow...

HDPE monofilaments were obtained using different extruders and drawn by post-extruder equipments. After solidification, drawn and undrawn monofilaments (draw ratio 7:1) were irradiated with 10 MeV electron beams in air at room temperature at 25, 50, 75, 100 and 125 kGy dose ranges to induce a network structure. HDPE crosslinking was studied on the basis of gel content measurements. The fibers w...

In this paper, new topology of phase shifter is proposed that uses advantage of metamaterial and MEMS technology. The phase shifter is switched between two states of RH- and LH-TL having frequency passband unlike other proposed metamaterials which create the maximum phase shift from one unitcell. Analysis and design approach of the phase shifter is presented and the structure is simulated using...

This work proposes a direct sequence spread spectrum transmitter with high transmission range and efficiency for audio signals. It is shown that by choosing high process gain for spread spectrum signal the data could reach a range of 55km in the 2.4GHz ISM band. By employing a light modulation scheme, we have a relaxed SNR requirement for having a low bit error rate (BER) which translates to re...

a power divider (pd)/ power combiner (pc) with high quality factor and enhanced output ports isolation using substrate integrated waveguide (siw) technology is proposed. an siw cavity is designed to provide a high quality factor filtering response and an smd resistor is attached between two output ports to realize the high isolation. the value of the applied resistor is calculated by using the ...

high spin states in the neutron rich nucleus 191os has been populated for the first time using the82se+192os deep-inelastic reaction at 460 mev beam energy using the alpi accelerators at the laboratorynazionali di legnaro, italy. high fold γ-γ coincidences were acquired with the 4π spectrometer gaspdetector array, consisting of 40 compton-suppressed, large-volume germanium detectors with an inn...

Downhole drilling motors or mud motors are frequently used during the oil and gas well construction, especially for construction of directional and horizontal segments. However, low operation life of the down hole drilling motors and high rate of wear in their working elements may constrain their application due to technical and economical disadvantageousness. In this work, a high-torque modula...