conclusions the in-house 1 step taqman real time rt-pcr assay showed acceptable performance characteristics. our study presents the robustness and cost-effectiveness of the method for detection and quantification of hcv rna. methods the primers and probe were selected from a highly conserved region of the hcv genome, which allowed the detection of 4 common hcv genotypes in iran. using 4 quantif...

objective(s): iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine (123i-mibg) myocardial scintigraphy has been used to evaluate cardiac sympathetic denervation in lewy body disease (lbd), including parkinson’s disease (pd) and dementia with lewy bodies (dlb). the heart-tomediastinum ratio (h/m) in pd and dlb is significantly lower than that in parkinson’s plus syndromes and alzheimer’s disease. although this ra...

introduction: pelvic organ prolapse is a common condition that occurs in parous women and affects the quality of life of women. the present study aimed to evaluate the incidence of recurrent prolapse. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study evaluated 365 women attending two public centers of ilam, west of iran. sampling was done by the simple random sampling method. all women particip...

Introduction: Radical radiation therapy of head and neck cancers may injure the salivary glands and reduce their function. Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images maybe used to evaluate function post-therapy. However, accurate quantification is hindered by the partial volume effects (PVEs). The present study involved the introduction of a PVEs quantif...

background: with increasing age, some changes appeared in specifications of vessels which including dimensions and elasticity in their. the changes in parameters such as resistance, inertance and compliance vessels appear and eventually changes in the environmental pulse releases are in circulation. these changes clearly appear in specification of photoplethysmogram particularly in the size and...

The notation and terminology used here are introduced in the following papers: [13], [14], [3], [9], [2], [7], [1], [4], [5], [10], [6], [12], [11], and [15]. The following proposition is true (1) For all real numbers x, y such that 0 ≤ x < y there exists a real number s0 such that 0 < s0 and x < y 1+s0 < y. The scheme RecExD3 deals with a non empty set A, an element B of A, an element C of A, ...

Linguistic quantifiers are quantifiers defined by linguistic expressions like “around 5” or “most of,” and many types of linguistic quantifiers can be found in the literature (Diaz-Hermida, Bugarin, & Barro, 2003; Glockner, 1997, 2004a, 2004b; Losada, Díaz-Hermida, & Bugarín, 2006) (as semifuzzy quantifiers which allow modeling expressions like “there are twice as many men as women”). We limit ...

We define the notion of “potential existence” by starting from the fact that in multi-valued logic the existential quantifier is interpreted by the least upper bound operator. Besides, we try to define in a general way how to pass from potential into actual

In the presence of suitable power spaces, compactness ofX can be characterized as the singleton {∅} being open in the space A(X). Equivalently, this means that universal quantification over a compact space preserves open predicates. Using the language of represented spaces, one can make sense of notions such as a Σ 2 subset of the space of Σ 2 -subsets of a given space. This suggests higher-ord...

Informal discourse about specific indefinites often employs ideas such as ‘the individual the speaker had in mind’. Although this kind of discourse most often seems to proceed coherently, many semanticists are sceptical about theoretical or formal accounts employing these notions. In this paper, we argue that folk ideas about reference are central to semantics, figuring in the truth conditions ...