background & aim: episiotomy is one of the most common surgical procedures in obstetrics, which requires analgesia. entonox gas is known to have analgesic and sedative properties. however, no studies have been found on the analgesic effects of entonox on episiotomy incision. therefore, this study aimed to compare the effects of entonox and lidocaine on pain intensity during episiotomy incision ...

introduction : eating disorders are serious psychiatric illness, defined by abnormal eating behaviors, shape and weight regulation difficulties and weight over concern.  objectives: this study sought to explore the prevalence and intensity of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating and their sub-thresholds in women who referred to wellness and fitness centers. materials and methods: 946...

the quantitative analysis of cardiac motions in echocardiography images is a noteworthy issue in processing of these images. cardiac motions can be estimated by optical flow (of) computation in different regions of image which is based on the assumption that the intensity of a moving pattern remains constant in consecutive frames. however, in echocardiographic sequences this assumption may be v...

We investigate the phase behavior of a two-dimensional suspension of charge stabilized polystyrene spheres in the presence of a one-dimensional periodic light field. With increasing light intensity we observe a liquid-solid followed by a solid-liquid transition which are known as laser-induced freezing and melting, respectively. Here we report on measurements where, in addition to the light int...

Photo-assisted one-step electrodeposition has been applied to help in forming smooth and dense CuInSe2 films. The difference in surface morphology and crystalline quality between CuInSe2 films with various photo-assistance has been investigated. In the photo-assisted electrodeposition process, the many kinds of lamps providing maximum light intensity at about 380 to 620 nm were used as light so...

We study formation and interaction of one-dimensional screening solitons in a photorefractive medium with sublinear dependence of the photoconductivity on light intensity. We find an exact analytical solution to the corresponding nonlinear Schrodinger equation. We show that these solitons are stable in propagation and their interaction is generic for solitons of saturable nonlinearity. In parti...

For a start, although integral dose is generally assumed to be improved by the use of higher energy photons, there is concern that some treatment planning systems might not effectively model the “beam narrowing” at depth observed with high energy photons in the small radiation beamlets encountered in IMRT. This phenomenon is caused by lateral beam degradation due to penumbra widening (8); when ...

Animals estimate visual motion by integrating light intensity information over time and space. The integration requires nonlinear processing, which makes motion estimation circuitry sensitive to specific spatiotemporal correlations that signify visual motion. Classical models of motion estimation weight these correlations to produce direction-selective signals. However, the correlational algori...

1. Extensive measurements have been obtained (a) relating photosynthesis and light intensity for a large range of CO(2) concentrations and (b) relating photosynthesis and CO(2) at different light intensities. From these families of curves, the limiting factor relationship can be secured for any value of the photosynthesis rate. 2. In terms of previous work an equation has been derived for descr...