introduction: group a beta-hemolytic streptococcus (gabhs) can induce pandas (pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infection). gabhs is the most important and common bacterial cause of acute pharyngitis in iranian children. we studied the role of gabhs (anti-streptococcal antibodies) in suspected cases of pandas in a cross sectional studies. methods: acr...

BACKGROUND Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and its different scalar values such as fractional anisotropy (FA) have recently been used for evaluation of peri-tumoral white matter (WM) involvement to help define safer surgical excision margins. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to evaluate the possibility of defining diagnostic cut-off points for differentiating four major types of peri-tu...

The symmetric cut-off rate is derived for Quadrature-Amplitude-Modulated (QAM) block-coded data-transmissions over noisy links impaired by timecorrelated multipath-phenomena which give rise to Rayleigh-distributed randomly time-variant Intersymbol Interference (ISI) effects. The presented formulas for the cut-off rate are new; they are derived from a random coding bound developed “ad hoc” for b...

The force field used was MMF94s, without any solvent treatment. A constant dielectric of 1.0 was employed for the electrostatic treatment, whereas the charges were assigned by the force field (Fig. 1). Moreover, an extended non-bonded cut-off was set, for taking into account the best maximum distances over which hydrogen bonding, Van der Waals and electrostatic contributions to the molecular po...

This paper presents new upper and lower bounds on the symmetric cut-off rate for coded Quadrature-Amplitude-Modulated (QAM) signalling over mobile radio links affected by time-correlated Rayleigh distributed flat faded phenomena. The proposed bounds assume Maximum Likelihood (ML) soft-decoding with perfect Channel-State-Information (CSI) at the receiving side and hold for any format of QAM cons...

The medial nucleus of the trapezoid body (MNTB) is a distinct nucleus in the superior olivary complex that transforms excitatory input from the cochlear nucleus into a widespread inhibitory output to distinct auditory brainstem nuclei. Few studies have dealt with the response properties of MNTB neurons to sound stimulation using in vivo preparations. In order to have a better understanding of t...

The max-k-cut problem is to partition the vertices of a weighted graph G = (V, E) into k ≥ 2 disjoint subsets such that the weight sum of the edges crossing the different subsets is maximized. The problem is referred as the max-cut problem when k = 2. In this work, we present a multiple operator heuristic (MOH) for the general max-k-cut problem. MOH employs five distinct search operators organi...

Background: In myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging, images are degraded by photon attenuation, the distance-dependent collimator, detector response and photons scatter. Filters greatly affect quality of nuclear medicine images Materials and Methods: A phantom simulating heart left ventricle was built. About 1mCi of 99mTc was injected into the phantom. Images were taken from this phantom. Some fi...

Background Evaluation of anti-mullerian hormone (AMH) cut-off levels in assisted reproductive technology (ART) as predictive factor for individualization of stimulation protocols and to avoid ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS). MaterialsAndMethods In a retrospective study, 177 infertile patients were assessed for AMH in serum and follicular fluid (FF) on the day of follicular puncture (FP...

In this paper, speed control of asynchronous machine fed by a photovoltaic (PV) generator based on a direct proportional and integral controller and an adaptive fuzzy logic controller (AFLC) is presented. Also In this study, it is proposed that the PV output voltage is varies between certain cut in and cut off values that to extract maximum power during different insolation values instead of op...