BACKGROUND Infants and young children are obligate nose breathers; therefore, a transnasal route seems the logical delivery method of inhaled aerosols. The efficiency of aerosol delivery depends on several factors, such as interface, type of nebulizer, and patient age and breathing pattern. We hypothesized that the use of a vibrating mesh nebulizer, a tight-fitting face mask, and a head model a...

The development of a parallel three-dimensional (3-D) adaptive mesh refinement (PAMR) scheme for an unstructured tetrahedral mesh using dynamic domain decomposition on a memory-distributed machine is presented in detail. A memory-saving cell-based data structure is designed such that the resulting mesh information can be readily utilized in both nodeor cell-based numerical methods. The general ...

we report the cases of two patients diagnosed with morgagni hernia who presented with nonspecific abdominal symptoms. both underwent laparo­scopic surgery that used a dual-sided mesh, polyvinylidene fluoride (pvdf; dynamesh ipom®). the procedures were successful and both patients were discharged with no complications. there was no recurrence in 18 months of follow up. herein is the report of th...

In order to better understand the implications of physical activity and nutrition in child development, we conducted present narrative with aim analyze nutritional patterns related maturation development. To reach our study objective, a consensus critical review were by analyzing primary sources such as academic research secondary databases, web pages, bibliographic indexes following procedures...

aims: it is very important to detect the coagulase-negative staphylococci, which produce the hospital infections. being one of the most expensive and time-consuming stages before the polymerase chain reaction (pcr), dna extraction is one of the primary stages of pcr. then, it should be noticed that the elimination of the stage might save time and costs. the aim of this study was to compare two ...

background: the aim of this study is to evaluate the long and short ten postoperative results after the notaras procedure as a surgical treatment of rectal prolapse in adults. methods: thirty-one patients suffering from rectal prolapse who were operated with notaras posterior mesh rectopexy in shohada-e-tajrish hospital between 1991- 2000 were followed up for results and complications and the r...

this paper introduces a new method for accelerating current sluggish fem and improving memory demand in fem problems with high node resolution or bulky structures. like most of the numerical methods, fem results to a matrix equation which normally has huge dimension. breaking the main matrix equation into several smaller size matrices, the solving procedure can be accelerated. for implementing ...

background tracking of blood pressure from early life to adulthood and the increasing prevalence of elevated blood pressure in the pediatric age group are considered as important health issues. rapid lifestyle change and dietary habits are considered as important determinants of this problem. this study aimed to systematically review the studies on the association of dietary habits and blood pr...

in this study gill-net selectivity for alburnus chalcoides inhabiting the almus dam lake was estimated. experimental gill-net fishing was conducted using gill-net with 15 mm and 20 mm mesh-size, during october 2002 and september 2003. a total of 254 and 198 specimens of a. chalcoides were caught by gill-net with 15 mm and 198 with the 20 mm mesh-size, respectively. the total length of the fish ...

it is difficult to develop an algorithm which is able to generate the appropriate mesh around the interfaces in bimaterials. in this study, a corresponding algorithm is proposed for this class of unified structures made from different materials with arbitrary shapes. the non-uniform mesh is generated adaptively based on advancing front technique available in abaqus software. implementing severa...