OBJECTIVE To investigate, by transcranial magnetic stimulation, the effects of valproate on silent period and corticomotor excitability. METHODS thirty patients with generalized epilepsy were studied at baseline, and re-examined 4 (S1) and 25 (S2) weeks after the administration of valproate (mean dose: 1040 +/- 284 mg). Transcranial magnetic stimulation was performed with a figure of eight co...

background: the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (ptb) is complicated and time-consuming currently. there was association of ptb with serum tumor markers. in this study we aimed to evaluate the predictive role of serum ca125, ca199 and cea as diagnostic tools for ptb. methods: this study was designed as a case-control study with 565 subjects who visited the yijishan hospital from jun to dec ...

A disk Wang-Bézier type generalized Ball curve is a Wang-Bézier type generalized Ball curve whose control points are disks in a plane. It can be viewed as a parametric curve with error tolerances. In this paper, we discuss the problem of degree reduction of disk Wang-Bézier type generalized Ball curve, that is, bounding disk Wang-Bézier type generalized Ball curves with lower degree disk Wa...

Introduction: Nowadays,  considerable developments  in  the field  of  radiotherapy have  been  achieved.  They  include  the  advances  made  in  the  equipments  and  treatment  planning  techniques  which  require  highly complex calculations. Such achievements have made it possible to treat cancer patients not only  with  higher  radiation  dose  but  also  with  higher  precision  and  con...

the acute ecotoxicity of a set of mixture samples (washing powders, wastes, fuel extracts etc.) was assessed using four acute ecotoxicity assays with aquatic organisms (daphnia magna, poecilia reticulata, artemia salina and desmodesmus subspicatus). the experimental concentration-response curves were fitted by seven two-parameter sigmoid equations using non-linear regression. the regression pe...

The parameters for a representative two-body Morse potential are determined for the solidified inert gases by fitting to O'K solid data. This is done using first the harmonic approximation and subsequently the first-order self-consistent harmonic approximation, which provides an upper limit to the anharmonic correction, to describe the solid at O'K. On comparing the two cases, the effect on the...

in this paper we have down three theoretical study by using monte carlo simulation and mm+,amber and opls force field. the calculations were carried out using hyper chem professional,release 7.01 package of program. first we have studied the interaction of h2 molecule and he atomwith single-walled carbon nanotube at different temperature. for doing this study we placed h2 andhe in the center an...

in this paper the family of elliptic curves over q given by the equation ep :y2 = (x - p)3 + x3 + (x + p)3 where p is a prime number, is studied. itis shown that the maximal rank of the elliptic curves is at most 3 and someconditions under which we have rank(ep(q)) = 0 or rank(ep(q)) = 1 orrank(ep(q))≥2 are given.