BACKGROUND Palatal rugae are distinct to each individual and are highly specific to each individual as their fingerprints. Rugae pattern are specific to different racial groups making it convenient for population identification. Palatal rugae retain their shape throughout life and hence can be useful as an identification tool. The present study aimed at analyzing the differences in rugae patter...

Klíčová slova oligoklonální pásy – mozkomíšní mok – IgG index – roztroušená skleróza Abstract Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the correlation between IgG index values and the number of the oligoclonal IgG bands (OCB) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Material and Methods: The set of 150 patients consisted of 41 males and 109 females (aged ...

AIMS The aim of this study was to assess the correlation between IgG index values and the number of the oligoclonal IgG bands (OCB) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). MATERIAL AND METHODS The set of 150 patients consisted of 41 males and 109 females (aged 18-68, mean 36.6 +/- 10.1 years). The CSF collected by a lumbar puncture was examined evaluating in...

Protecting is the sources of drinking water is the first barrier of contamination of drinking water. The Feitsui Reservoir watershed of Taiwan supplies domestic water for around 5 million people in the Taipei metropolitan area. Understanding the spatial patterns of water quality trends in this watershed is an important agenda for management authorities. This study examined 7 sites in the waters...

heavy metal contamination around the national iranian lead and zinc company (nilz) in zanjan province was evaluated in this paper. collected data were used to appraise the degree of soil contamination and also the source of pollution in the study area based on geoaccumulation index (igeo), and enrichment factor (ef). the levels of fe, zn, cd and pb in the samples exceed those reported in litera...

The Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney statistic is commonly used for a distribution-free comparison of two groups. One requirement for its use is that the sample sizes of the two groups are fixed. This is violated in some of the applications such as medical imaging studies and diagnostic marker studies; in the former, the violation occurs since the number of correctly localized abnormal images is random, w...

In this paper we show Whitney’s fibering conjecture in the real and complex, local analytic and global algebraic cases. For a given germ of complex or real analytic set, we show the existence of a stratification satisfying a strong (real arc-analytic with respect to all variables and analytic with respect to the parameter space) trivialization property along each stratum. We call such a trivial...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect hand puppet media on listening skills sixth grade students SDN 15 Rambutan. By using research method pre-experimental design with type one group pretest posttest. With a population 20 class VI. sample in entire an average score 50.25 and posttest 81.20. collection data evaluation sheet learning outcomes. Data analysis used Mann Whitney non-p...

The majority of the widely used scan statistics are based on distributional assumptions. Contrary to existing methods, with a new perspective in clustering, Mann-Whitney Scan Statistic was introduced detect clusters continuous data indexed by time or space, without any assumptions parameters set up. We propose an extension that can be applied spatiotemporal distance measure. This novel statisti...