Background: In several disease conditions, patients must inevitably be nourished by enteral feeding (EF). Though in many countries, commercial formulas are routinely used for EF, in Iran still home-made formulas are commonly employed as commercial formulas are not covered by insurance. This may pose patients to malnutrition and bring about further costs.  The aim of this study was to evalu...

This paper proposes a novel approach for the formulation of elastic modulus of both normal-strength concrete (NSC) and high-strength concrete (HSC) using a variant of genetic programming (GP), namely linear genetic programming (LGP). LGP-based models relate the modulus of elasticity of NSC and HSC to the compressive strength, as similarly presented in several codes of practice. The models are d...

One of the most important functions of the kidney is to concentrate urine through the reabsorption of water. Urine specific gravity (USG) is used in routine tests of urine concentration and can be estimated using a refractometer. However, as the scale of Japanese refractometer is based on experimental data from healthy Japanese people, and human USG obtained by Japanese refractometers show high...

A simple and rapid method has been developed for routine compliance testing of lutein in pediatric formulas. Following a mild saponification procedure (70 °C for 10 min) demonstrated to be benign to lutein, lipophilic components were partitioned by a single extraction into hexane:diisopropyl ether (75:25 v/v) and concentrated in mobile phase. Baseline chromatographic separation of lutein and ze...

BACKGROUND Human milk provides necessary macronutrients (protein, carbohydrate, fat) required for infant nutrition. Lactoferrin (Lf), a multifunctional iron-binding protein predominant in human milk, shares similar protein sequence, structure, and bioactivity with bovine Lf (bLf). This large-scale pediatric nutrition study was designed to evaluate growth and tolerance in healthy infants who rec...

Let U be a super-everywhere Newton monodromy. Recent interest in complex lines has centered on extending measurable, almost everywhere canonical, onto points. We show that there exists a totally unique set. It is well known that there exists an unconditionally Maclaurin super-nonnegative homomorphism. Recent developments in universal calculus [31, 37] have raised the question of whether |f | ≤ i.

This equation becomes Wallis’ product when p = 0 and Vieta’s formula as p → ∞. It is surprising that such a connection between the two products was not discovered earlier. The collection [1] contains both original papers of Vieta and Wallis as well as other fundamental papers in the history of π. Indeed, there are many good historical sources on π. The text by P. Eymard and J. P. Lafon [6] is a...

We present a family of four-point quadrature rule, a generalization of Gauss-two point, Simpson’s 3/8, and Lobatto four-point quadrature rule for twice-differentiable mapping. Moreover, it is shown that the corresponding optimal quadrature formula presents better estimate in the context of four-point quadrature formulae of closed type. A unified treatment of error inequalities for different cla...

background: date (phoenix dactylifera l.) is one of the most important agricultural crops in iran. this study was carried out to determine the possibility of using date paste for manufacturing a new ready-to-eat food product. methods: various formulations were prepared by mixing mazafati date paste, bread, oil (animal and olive), nuts and spices but only six formulas were chosen according to se...

In this paper a method is presented for torsional analysis of non-homogeneous tubes with arbitrarily shaped cross-sections. A previously presented method based on Bredt’s theory is extended to achieve formulas for torsional analysis. Shear modulus varies through the thickness according to a power law distribution. To validate the accuracy of the presented formulas for angle of twist and shear s...