background: cell therapy has emerged as a promising curative intervention for several diseases including diabetes and wolfram syndrome (ws). the current study aimed to assess the effectiveness of clinical application of fetal-liver derived stem cells for treatment of patients with ws. methods: six patients with ws aged 23-34 (mean: 29.50, sd: 4.76) were recruited for the current phase 3 single-...

[Purpose] The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of aerobic exercise training on the levels of peripheral brain-derived neurotrophic factor and eotaxin-1 in obese young men. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects included sixteen obese young men with a body mass index greater than 25 kg/m(2). They were randomly divided between control and exercise groups (n = 8 in each group)....

As disk volume grows rapidly with terabyte disk becoming a norm, RAID reconstruction process in case of a failure takes prohibitively long time. This paper presents a new RAID architecture, S2-RAID, allowing the disk array to reconstruct very quickly in case of a disk failure. The idea is to form skewed sub-arrays in the RAID structure so that reconstruction can be done in parallel dramatically...

RAID systems increase data storage reliability by employing one or more data integrity techniques such as parity or checksum. However, the current implementations of software RAID systems suffer both inflexibility and unrobustness. First, different software RAID levels require different RAID systems and the system written for one level cannot be reused for others. In addition, writing a new RAI...

this study was conducted to determine the effect of swedish massage on blood glucose level in children with diabetes mellitus (dm). it was prospective randomized controlled trial study that conducted on 36 children, 6-12 years old with dm, recruited from a hospital in qom city, iran. the children were randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. swedish massage was performed 15 minutes...

This paper reports the results of a randomized trial to test the effectiveness of a theoretically derived intervention designed to increase parental monitoring among Hispanic parents of middle school students. Role model story newsletters developed through the process of Intervention Mapping were mailed to half of a subsample of parents whose children participated in Students for Peace, a compr...

in a managed floating exchange rate regime, one of the most important issues is the degree to which the monetary authorities intervene in the foreign exchange market.  the appropriate level of intervention in the foreign exchange market can be discussed in a framework which emphasizes the trade-off between changes in the country’s level of international reserves and minimizes the country’s real...