conclusions prevalence of icaadbc genes was relatively high among children and also all the four ica genes were detected among mrsa strains. results five isolates (22.7%) were methicillin resistant (mrsa) and meca gene was detected among them. all the mrsa isolates harbored sccmec type iii. prevalence of icaa, icab, icac and icad in the isolates were 16 (73%), 14 (63.6%), 16 (73%) and 16 (73%),...

Feline infectious peritonitis virus (FIPV) is ubiquitous in domestic cats, especially in young cats and multi-cat environments. In the present study, a total of 248 companion cats of different ages were examined for serum antibody detection of FIPV by immunochromatography assay. The cats were selected from those referring to Veterinary Hospital of Ahvaz University, southwestern Iran from Decemb...

Introduction: The measurement of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is an established procedure in evaluating long-term glycemic control diabetic patients. There are many factors like temperature, pH, lifespan protein, substrate concentrations and levels that influence HbA1c estimation by any methods. aim the study to estimate High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) immunochromatography analyzer...

Meta-heuristic algorithms inspired by the natural processes are part of the optimization algorithms that they have been considered in recent years, such as genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization, Firefly algorithm. Recently, a new kind of evolutionary algorithm has been proposed that it is inspired by the human sociopolitical evolution process. This new algorith...

Optimization of turning process is a non-linear optimization with constrains and it is difficult for the conventional optimization algorithms to solve this problem. The purpose of present study is to demonstrate the potential of Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) for optimization of multipass turning process. This algorithm is inspired by competition mechanism among imperialists and coloni...

imperialist competitive algorithm (ica) is a new socio-politically motivated global search strategy. the ica is applied to hybrid composite laminates to obtain minimum weight and cost. the approach which is chosen for conducting the multi-objective optimization was the weighted sum method (wsm). the hybrid composite laminates are made of glass/epoxy and carbon/epoxy to combine the lightness and...