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introduction: metabolic syndrome (ms) is a common disorder which is characterized by abdominal obesity, hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia, low high-density lipoprotein (hdl) and hyperglycemia that might lead to periodontitis by suppressing the immune system. due to the availability of a limited number of studies and discrepancies in the results of previous studies, this study was undertaken to...

background : burn wounds are one of the health problems in modern societies that are associated with irreparable harms and many side problems for patients and their families. infection due to burn wounds is the main cause of death in such patients. one of the methods to prevent infection of burn wounds is topical antibiotic ointments. this study aimed to investigate and identify effective ointm...

High-resolution vehicle speed profiles obtained from sophisticated devices such as global positioning system (GPS) receivers provide an opportunity to accurately measure intersection delay, composed of deceleration delay, stopped delay, and acceleration delay. Although the delay components can be measured by manually examining the speed profiles or derived timespace diagrams, identifying when v...

introduction because of population growth, human needs to produce raw materials have increased. different industries have developed that discharge pollutants into the environment. one type of the contaminants is heavy metals that are abundant in municipal and industrial waste waters. these compounds aren’t capable of biological degradation and in certain quantities are considered toxic to many ...

An approach to multi-channel blind deconvolution is developed, which uses an adaptive filter that performs blind source separation in the Fourier space. The approach keeps (during the learning process) the same permutation and provides appropriate scaling of components for all frequency bins in the frequency space. Experiments indicate that Generalized Laplace Distribution can be used effective...

NEUROHUMORAL EXCITATION has been considered the hallmark of heart failure. At the humoral level, cardiac dysfunction has been shown to be associated with increased angiotensin II, aldosterone, and vasopressin levels. The clinical implication for such humoral dysregulation is the increase in salt and water retention, which contributes to clinical heart failure. It has also been shown that patien...