background and aims: thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignant and papillary cancer and three times more prevalent in women than men. the aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence rate and trend of thyroid cancer in iranian population. methods: national incidence was rated by iran national cancer registry data derived from iran’s annual national cancer registration reported fr...

This paper reports trends in educational assortative marriage from 1940 to 2003 in the United States. Analyses of census and Current Population Survey data show that educational homogamy decreased from 1940 to 1960 but increased from 1960 to 2003. From 1960 to the early 1970s, increases in educational homogamy were generated by decreasing intermarriage among groups of relatively well-educated p...

BACKGROUND There has been a marked increase in the incidence of, and concern regarding, human Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli infections worldwide during the last decade. As the highest infectious disease control apparatus in Taiwan, we aimed to describe the character of Campylobacter isolates from infected children, as well as basic information about the patients, from December 2003 to Februa...

This report describes the development of techniques and the overall architecture organization of the software as well as the main achievements obtained in the competition RoboCup 2003. More specifically, we describe both the development efforts performed in 2003 (i.e. the realization of an efficient and robust color segmentation algorithm, the development of a localization technique based on Ka...

AIMS To investigate the epidemiological and clinical aspects of MRSA among inpatients and outpatients presenting to hospital. METHODS Analysis of demographic, epidemiological, and clinical data collected on 385 children first identified as having MRSA between January 1998 and December 2003 in a 250 bed English children's hospital. RESULTS There were 267 inpatients and 118 outpatients. The n...

This chapter describes the broad phonemic transcription in the CGN. First a broad overview of phonetic annotations in Dutch corpora is provided and a number of crucial dimensions are discussed: the source of annotation (human or automatic), the type of material involved, the level of transcription and the symbol set and transcription conventions. These dimensions serve as a guide through a numb...

The NEMO-3 detector installed in the Modane Underground Laboratory (LSM, France) is running to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (ββ0ν) with an expected sensitivity for the effective Majorana neutrino mass down to 0.1 eV. New preliminary limits (90% CL), T 1/2 (ββ0ν) > 1.0 · 10 23 y (right-handed currents) and T 1/2 (ββ0ν) > 1.9 · 10 23 y (massive mechanism) were established analyzing 1...

At PKC 2003 Paeng, Jung, and Ha proposed a lattice based public key cryptosystem(PJH). It is originated from GGH, and designed as a hybrid of GGH and NTRUEncrypt in order to reduce the key size. They claimed that PJH is secure against all possible attacks, especially against lattice attacks. However, in this paper, we present a key recovery attack, based on lattice theory, against PJH. The runn...

Recently determined heavy element abundances 1-3 have led to significant changes in our understanding of the internal structure and constitution of the Sun. It turns out that the standard solar models calculated with the new abundances are significantly different from the helioseismic results which were in a good agreement with the previous solar models. Figure 1 shows the relative difference b...