background:the different duration of delay to first contact with a psychiatrist in depressive disordered patients has been observed in western and non western cultures. this study aimed to examine the duration and predictive factors of delay in contact with a psychiatrist in depressive patients in isfahan city of iran. methods:in this cross sectional study 156 depressive patients were recruited...

the use of multilateral well is becoming an emerging method to improve oil recovery efficiently and to drain reservoirs more efficacious. by developing drilling technology, completing the oil wells as multilateral wells become more interesting especially from economic point of view. on the other hand, lack of any means for forecasting the performance of this type of wells causes drilling of the...

background and aim: clinical and radiographic diagnoses of dental root fractures have always been difficult and require high accuracy in dental care and treatment. the aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy of intraoral digital radiography (psp) and cbct in the detection of horizontal root fracture (hrf) and vertical root fracture (vrf). materials and methods: for this experim...

abstract: converting point data to continuous one is the first step in order to use them in scorpan flowchart. for this purpose, different geostatistic methods are available which at present research regression kriging with local variogram was applied. for mapping apparent electrical conductivity at the area covering 72000ha located in ardakan region, 700 readings in horizontal and vertical mod...

Vertical line segments tend to be perceived as longer than horizontal ones of the same length, but this may in part be due to configuration effects. To minimize such effects, we used isolated line segments in a two-interval, forced choice paradigm, not limiting ourselves to horizontal and vertical. We fitted psychometric curves using a Bayesian method that assumes that, for a given subject, the...

An ionic current model of the retinal horizontal cell is constructed. The horizontal cell models are interconnected by gap junctions to form a horizontal cell layer. The light response properties of the L-type horizontal cell are analyzed using this model. We demonstrate the functional role of each ionic current and the role of the feedback loop between cones and horizontal cells. The present s...

The purpose of our research was to establish the variability of correlation between the length of the jumps and selected multi-item kinematic variables (n=9) in the early flight phase technique of ski jumping. This study was conducted on a sample of elite Slovenian ski jumpers (N=29) who participated in the experiment on a jumping hill in Hinterzarten, Germany (HS95m) on the 20(th) of August, 2...

We describe a stochastic birth-and-death model of evolution of horizontally transferred genes in microbial populations. The model is a generalization of the stochastic model described by Berg and Kurland and includes five parameters: the rate of mutational inactivation, selection coefficient, invasion rate (i.e., rate of arrival of a novel sequence from outside of the recipient population), wit...