in order to assess the prevalence of skin diseases in dogs encountered in a first opinion university small animal clinic, 1299 iranian domestic dogs presented from september 2007 through march 2011 to the ferdowsi university of mashhad veterinary teaching hospital, were examined. dermatological disorders were noted in 17.00% (221/1299) of all the dogs examined. pruritus was the most common pres...

there is a misconception among our people that opioids may prevent or have ameliorating effects in the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases. in this study we evaluated 556 consecutive male patients hospitalized due to acute myocardial infarction (mi) in city of yazd, from may 2000 to october 2001 and compared the characteristics of opium addicts to non opium users. prevalence of opium addictio...

background coronary heart disease (chd) is the leading cause of death worldwide. research indicates that coronary atherosclerosis is the most frequent cause of chd. evidence is scarce concerning the clinical efficacy of fibrinogen or neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (nlr) measurement in risk-stratifying patients with chronic stable angina. conclusions nlr and fibrinogen predicted cad, independent of...

many performance measures, such as the classical sharpe ratio have difficulty in evaluating the performance of investment companies whose return distributions are skewed. common causes for skew ness are the use of options in the portfolio or superior market timing skills of the portfolio managers. in this article, we examine the ability of the downside risk and the upside potential ratio (upr) ...

background: progressions in science and technology have generated several methods for delaying preterm delivery and abortion; therefore, discovering an easy, non-invasive, practical, and non-expensive predictive factor can help us to perform preventive methods in healthy pregnant women, without any risk factors. objective: to indicate an appropriate index for predicting abortion in early pregna...

Decisions regarding investigational new drug applications for testing of all biologicals to be used in humans, including those designed to prevent or treat cancers, must be considered in terms of benefit/risk ratios. In order for a regulatory organization to make the appropriate decision regarding the testing of new biologicals in humans, it must have an extremely broad dialog within the critic...

In this paper, the financial engineering minimum risk-based portfolio hedging model is first analyzed. It is then followed by the investigation on various major estimation methods for the minimum risk hedge ratio. The results revealed in the current study show that the HR obtained by the ordinary least squares (OLS) model is maximal and the out-of-sample hedging performance is the best; however...