many earthquakes occur in iran every year and some of these earthquakes cause loss of life and property. consequently earthquake is one of challenging topics not only in iran but also in other active tectonic regions in the world. investigating the mechanism of earthquake as a natural disaster is the first and important step. to study earthquakes, different information such as geometry and beha...

background: it is clear that helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) is a spiral bacterium that infects human and causes gastritis and peptic ulcer. the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between h .pylori infection and the iron status of the body. methods: this study was conducted in shahid beheshti hospital of babol university of medical sciences, babol, iran from august 2007 to july...

This article deals with the existence of blockwise low-rank approximants — so-called H-matrices — to inverses of FEM matrices in the case of uniformly elliptic operators with L∞-coefficients. Unlike operators arising from boundary element methods for which the H-matrix theory has been extensively developed, the inverses of these operators do not benefit from the smoothness of the kernel functio...

Molecular and functional ecology of aquatic microbial symbionts Grossart, H.-P.; Riemann, Lasse; Tang, K.W. Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00059 Publication date: 2013 Document Version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Citation for published version (APA): Grossart, H-P., Riemann, L., & Tang, K. W. (2013). Molecular and functional ecology of aquat...

BACKGROUND Peripheral vascular disease in pre-diabetes may involve altered sympathetically-mediated vascular control. Thus, we investigated if pre-diabetes modifies baseline sympathetic Y(1)-receptor (Y(1)R) and α(1)-receptor (α(1)R) control of hindlimb blood flow (Q(fem)) and vascular conductance (VC). METHODS Q(fem) and VC were measured in pre-diabetic ZDF rats (PD) and lean controls (CTRL)...

The aim of this study was to provide a preliminary evaluation of the possible effect that femoral version may have on the bearing equilibrium conditions developed on the medial tibiofemoral compartment. A digital 3D solid model of the left physiological adult femur was used to create morphological variations of different neck-shaft angles (varus 115, normal 125, and valgus 135 degrees) and vers...