Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging A t this year’s SNM Mid-Winter Meeting in San Antonio, TX, the Cardiovascular Council and Molecular Imaging Center of Excellence cosponsored a program entitled, ‘‘Advances in Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging.’’ The program was organized by Mehran M. Sadeghi, MD, from Yale University, and included a series of lectures focused on the emerging field of molecular ca...

In this paper, an intelligent controller capable of static balancing as well as dynamic balancing of a pole mounted amotorized robot is designed and developed. The brain of the intelligent controller lies in the Fuzzy Inference System, which receives as its input displacement, velocity and acceleration information. An embedded instrumentation system onboard the robot\ measures the displacement ...

Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology (MUET) Jamshoro 76080, Pakistan. Dept of Mining Engineering, MUET Jamshoro 76080, Pakistan, Departmen of Mineral Processing and Petroleum Engineering, Montan University Leoben, Austria. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of animal model based medical training courses for village healthcare workers on prehospital physiologic condition and prognosis of patients with penetrating injuries. STUDY DESIGN Experimental study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY This study was carried out in Mehran city and its neighbouring rural districts in western part of Iran from 2002 to 2004. METHODO...

[1] This study contributes to characterization of satellite precipitation error which is fundamental to develop uncertainty models and bias reduction algorithms. Systematic and random error components of several satellite precipitation products are investigated over different seasons, thresholds and temporal accumulations. The analyses show that the spatial distribution of systematic error has ...

On the Measurement of Long-Term Income Inequality and Income Mobility This paper proposes a two-step aggregation method for measuring long-term income inequality and income mobility, where mobility is defined as an equalizer of long-term income. The first step consists of aggregating the income stream of each individual into a measure of permanent income, which accounts for the costs associated...

Administration of iodinated contrast medium (CM) during invasive cardiovascular procedures may be associated with impairment kidney function. Urinary dickkopf-3 (DKK3), a stress-induced renal tubular epithelium–derived glycoprotein, has been identified as biomarker predicting both acute injury (AKI) and persistent dysfunction. DKK3/creatinine ratio (uDKK3/uCr), urine serum neutrophil gelatinase...

Coronary stent implantation is currently performed in > 80% of percutaneous coronary interventions. Its main late complication is the development of in-stent restenosis (ISR), occurring in 10-80% of lesions treated in daily practice. The classification by Mehran et al. is most commonly used. Current therapeutic options to treat ISR include repeat balloon angioplasty, repeat stenting, cutting ba...

The reproductive biology of the Iranian cichlid, Iranocichla hormuzensis Coad, 1988, was investigated for 13 consecutive months in lower Mehran River, from August 2008 through August 2009. Four hundred and eighty six individuals (252 males and 234 females) were captured using a seine net (5 mm mesh size). The observed sex ratio was 1M: 0.93F (χ², df = 1, P = 0.414). Mean ± SD of total length (T...

The theory of fuzzy sets, which was initiated by Zadeh in his seminal paper [33] in 1965, was applied to generalize some of the basic concepts of algebra. The fuzzy algebraic structures play a vital role in mathematics with wide applications in many other branches such as theoretical physics, computer sciences, control engineering, information sciences, coding theory, logic, set theory, real an...