abstract climate change means a significant change in the long-term weather of a region in comparison with what has been observed during a long term period. precipitation and minimum and maximum temperature are three variables which are affected directly by the climate change. furthermore, the water yield of a river is one of the most important hydrological variables of a basin which is affecte...

since the emergence of power market, the target of power generating utilities has mainly switched from cost minimization to revenue maximization. they dispatch their power energy generation units in the uncertain environment of power market. as a result, multi-stage stochastic programming has been applied widely by many power generating agents as a suitable tool for dealing with self-scheduling...

Rate outage probability is an important performance metric to measure the level of quality of service (QoS) in the Generation (4G) broadband access networks. Thus, in this paper, we calculate a closed form expression of the rate outage probability for a given user in a down-link multi-hop OFDMAbased system encountered as a result of links’ channel variations. The channel random behavior on diff...

Prostaglandin F(2alpha) (PGF(2alpha)) and interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) levels are elevated in inflamed dental pulp. The roles of IL-1beta and PGF(2alpha) in the pathogenesis of pulpal inflammation await investigation. We found that IL-1beta stimulated PGF(2alpha) production of human dental pulp cells. IL-1beta and PGF(2alpha) (0.5-10 mumol/L) also induced IL-8 production and mRNA expression in ...

BACKGROUND Increased oxidative stress might contribute to diabetic (DM) neuropathy, so the effects of long-term treatment with fluvastatin (FL) on myocardial oxidative stress and cardiac sympathetic neural function were investigated in diabetic rats. METHODS AND RESULTS FL (10 mg . kg(-1) . day(-1), DM-FL) or vehicle (DM-VE) was orally administered for 2 weeks to streptozotocin-induced DM rat...

in this paper, a new framework has been developed for compatibility analysis of predictive climatic variables distribution with reference evapotranspiration (eto) in probabilistic analysis of water requirement. initially, measured monthly meteorological data of four cities of iran including kerman, shiraz, ramsar and babolsar synoptic weather station recorded from 1961 to 2003 were considered b...

In the paper a finite-capacity discrete-time queueing system with geometric interarrival times and generally distributed processing is studied. Every time when service station becomes idle it goes for vacation of random duration that can be treated as power-saving mechanism. Application single policy one way to achieve symmetry in terms operating costs. A differential equations transient condit...

Poor graft function (PGF) is a fatal complication following allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. However, the underlying mechanism is unclear. Effective cross-talk between haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and bone marrow microenvironment is important for normal haematopoiesis. Normal HSCs reside in a hypoxic bone marrow microenvironment that protects them from oxidative stress t...

AIM This study examined the expression of PLGF-1 and PGF-2 in human colorectal cancer and how changes in expression may be linked to prognosis of the disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS Expression of PLGF transcripts in primary colorectal tumours (n=94) and background tissue (n=80) were analysed by Q-PCR. Immunohistochemistry was carried out on a number of matched background and tumour sections. ...