OBJECTIVES To evaluate performance characteristics of the newly available handheld combined glucose and ketone meter for beta-hydroxybutyrate measurement. DESIGN Laboratory method evaluation. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Accuracy of beta-hydroxybutyrate measurement and effect of acetoacetate interference at clinically important beta-hydroxybutyrate levels. RESULTS Deming regression analysis of b...

‏ SUMMARY The purpose of the present investigation was to study the relationship between the birth interval and the anthropometrical measurments of children aged 0-60 months in Bandar Abbas Suburbs. In order to remove the confounding effect of variables on the relationship between Birth interval and Nutritional status, some other variables also have been investigated. For this purpose, thirty...

Measurement errors and other uncertainties place an interval of ambiguity around the mean value of system probability of failure and each path and component failure probability. Associated with a specified reliability R that a failure probability will lie within an interval is a confidence C in that reliability. The statement that the system probability of failure lies within a specified interv...

the purpose of the present work is to establish a one-to-one correspondence between the family of interval type-2 fuzzy reflexive/tolerance approximation spaces and the family of interval type-2 fuzzy closure spaces.

in this paper, we introduce a satisfaction function (sf) to compare interval values on the basis oftseng and klein’s idea. the sf estimates the degree to which arithmetic comparisons between two intervalvalues are satisfied. then, we define two other functions called lower and upper sf based on the sf. weapply these functions in order to present a new interpretation of inequality constraints wi...