PURPOSE Fungal infections are one of the most common skin infections. Athletes, especially in contact sports such as wrestlers are the group at risk of fungal skin infections (FSI). The aim of this study was to determine prevalence of FSI and some effective factors in wrestlers in Tehran, Iran. METHODS This study was a cross-sectional descriptive study which was conducted in 2009 and subjects...

Computational Structural Dynamics (CSD) simulations, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation, and Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) simulations were carried out in an anatomically realistic model of a saccular cerebral aneurysm with the objective of quantifying the effects of type of simulation on principal fluid and solid mechanics results. Eight CSD simulations, one CFD simulation, and ...

Final-state interaction effects in charmless Bu,d,s → PP decays are studied. We investigate the B 0 → π+π−, π0π0 rates and the Kπ direct CP violations, which lead to the so-called Kπ puzzle in CP violation. Our main results are as follows: (i) Results are in agreement with data in the presence of FSI. (ii) For B decays, the π+π− and π0π0 rates are suppressed and enhanced respectively by FSI. (i...

It is known that a camphor particle at water surface exhibits self-propulsion since it releases molecules the and reduces tension, gradient of tension drives itself. Such motion considered to be driven by concentration field chemicals emitted also shape seriously affects mode motion. In order understand universal mechanism on effect such self-propelled motion, we theoretically investigated bifu...

Pulses of fine sediment in gravel-bedded rivers can cause extensive fine sediment infiltration (FSI) into void spaces in coarse bed material, potentially altering river morphodynamics and aquatic ecosystems. Previous work suggests a conceptual model of FSI whereby FSI occurs to a limited depth as a function of the relative grain size of bed sediment compared with infiltrating sediment and is in...

A proposal is presented for simulating an improvement on quenched QCD with dynamical fermions which interact with the gluon configuration only via the topological index of the latter. Strengths and shortcomings of the method are discussed and it is argued that the approximation – though being crude – shares some qualitative aspects of full QCD which relate to the issue of chiral symmetry breaking.

PURPOSE Clinical trials have studied the use of soy protein for treating type 2 diabetes (T2D) and metabolic syndrome (MS). The purpose of this study was to outline evidence on the effects of soy protein supplementation on clinical indices in T2D and MS subjects by performing a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). MATERIALS AND METHODS We searched PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane...

Most proteins adopt an approximate structural symmetry. However, they have no symmetry detectable in their sequences and it is unclear for most of these proteins whether their structural symmetry originates from duplication. As one of the six popular folds (super-folds) possessing an approximate structural symmetry, the triosephosphate isomerase barrel (TIM-barrel) domain has been widely studie...