objective(s):p in vitro chemosensitivity and resistance assays (csras) are a promising tool for personalized treatment of glioblastoma multiform (gbm). these assays require a minimum of 1 to 2 g of tumor specimen for testing, but this amount is not always accessible. we aimed to assess the feasibility and validity of utilizing stereotactic biopsies of gbm in csras. materials and methods: single...

applying analytical network process in swot (case study in iran insurance company) swot analysis does not present an analytical technique for defining significance of recognized factors and assessment of different strategic alternatives. thus it has several problems in factors assessment. ahp technique solves some of the problems but it is not efficient when the factors have interdependency bec...

background: we aimed to compare field-in-field technique (fif) with conformal tangential field radiotherapy (crt) in terms of dosimetric benefits for early stage breast cancer radiotherapy. materials and methods: twenty consecutive left-side breast cancer patients who underwent breast-conserving surgery were included to the study. for each patient, two different treatment plans were created for...

in most of the multi-criteria decision making problems, it is important to have necessary information about relative importance of each criteria. in this group of problems, weights measure the relative importance of preferences of each criteria in comparison with the other decision making criteria. in this research, the nise method has been used for mapping mean-variance efficient frontier. nis...

The present study was designed to investigate the impact of applying fill-in-the-map and construct-a-map techniques on EFL learners’ knowledge of tenses. To this end, sixty EFL elementary female students, who were selected based on their performance on a standardized teacher-made proficiency test, were randomly assigned into two equal experimental and control groups. In order to be convinced of...