BACKGROUND Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) can be classified into low-, intermediate-, and high-grade tumors based on its histological features. MEC is mainly composed of three cell types (squamous or epidermoid, mucous and intermediate cells), which correlates with the histological grade and reflects its clinical behavior. Most cancers exhibit reduced methylation of repetitive sequences such as...

Finite element derivative superconvergent points for the Poisson equation under local rectangular mesh (in the two dimensional case) and local brick mesh (in the three dimensional situation) are investigated. All superconvergent points for the finite element space of any order that is contained in the tensor-product space and contains the intermediate family can be predicted. In case of the ser...

Abstract Heart patients displays several symptoms and it is hard to point them. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) provides a comparative efficiency degree for each decision-making units (DMUs) with several inputs and outputs. Evaluating of hospitals is one of the major applications in DEA. In this study, a comparison of additive model with standard input oriented and output oriented M...

−− In the present study, a methodology to find natural frequencies with arbitrary precision of thin rectangular plates on linear intermediate supports and mixed boundary conditions is presented. This means that the edges are total or partially supported, clamped or free, or any combination of these. The layout, number and place of linear intermediate supports are arbitrary, which allows for the...

Quantum computing is a promising new paradigm that may yield both significant speedup over classical algorithms as well ways to think about problems and finding novel solution algorithms. While large-scale error-corrected quantum computers are still under development, selection of noisy intermediate-scale processing units readily made available by some companies via cloud access. Despite the la...

In the first phase of Experiment 1 rats were trained with a backward serial conditioned stimulus (CS) with three 8-s elements (Food—Near–Intermediate–Far, where the name of the element denotes its temporal proximity to food). In the second phase of this experiment, different groups received a novel lever presented in compound with a different CS element. In the first phase of Experiment 2, rats...

a two-year laboratory study on the biology (including self-fertilization) of bulinus truncatus, the intermediate host of schistosoma haematobium, s. bovis and paramphistomum microbotrium in iran, has revealed information on the longevity, reproduction, hatchability rate, hatching time during various months of the year, and growth and mortality rates of this snail. it was found that the reproduc...