Abstract Background and Aims The estimate of the hydration state in chronic hemodialysis patient is a key point his care. Currently, there no Gold Standard feasable daily routine despite increasingly numerous tools such as impedancemetry pulmonary cardiac ultrasound. objective our study to compare results clinical estimation dry weight with ultrasound results. Method This transverse dialysis un...

Background Subacute osteomyelitis in children is a distinct entity encompassing primary localized osteomyelitis. It poses diagnostic problem related to its few or no constitutional symptoms, misleading radiological manifestations and often negative bacteriological investigations. The treatment remains very controversial. Objectives aim of this study was identify the main epidemiological, clinic...

The concept of source and sink strength is presently well-recognized and accepted by the scientific community as a pertinent approach describing the mechanisms of carbohydrate partitioning into the different and competing organs at a whole plant or canopy scales. Sink–source relationships have a clear role in the size of sink organs. Besides the effect on organ size, sink/source ratio might also...

* Corresponding author Seyed Taher Esfahani, MD Department of Pediatric Nephrology Children Medical Center Dr. Gharib St., Azadi Ave. Tehran, IRAN Tel: +9821-66929234 Fax: +9821-66930024 E-mail: esfahanisedtaher@ yahoo.com Introduction: The association of sacral anomalies with fecal incontinence and lower urinary tract dysfunction is known. The sacral ratio is proposed as a tool for evaluation ...

Introduction: Here, we present two case reports of adult female patients with the pathologic diagnosis of large sacrococcygeal teratoma. Case Series: In the first patient (aged 19 years), pelvic ultrasonographic examination showed a large (85.9×88.7 mm) multiloculated complex cyst posterior to the cervix. No evidence of recurrence was observed post-resection. The histological examination of the...

Tuan A. Duong”+, Allen R. Stubberud+, and Taher Daud* “ Center for Space Microelectronics Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91109 + Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92717 Abs[ract: Ifie cascade correlation based neural network learning algorithm has drwwvt a lot of attention because of its enhan...

ii iii To my Family … iv ACKNOWLEDGMENT All praise and glory is to almighty Allah who gave me the courage and patience to carry out this work, and peace and blessings of Allah be upon his last prophet Muhammad. Acknowledgement is due to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals for supporting this research. I am grateful to the electrical engineering department, faculty and staff, for all ...

Assessment of any release of radioactivity to the environment is important for the protection of public health, especially if the released radioactivity can enter the food chain. In the present work, a pot experiment carried out in greenhouse in Qassim University in order to examine the effect of contaminated irrigation water on migration and retention of radioactive elements in soil and plants...

Semantic similarity has typically been measured across items of approximately similar sizes. As a result, similarity measures have largely ignored the fact that different types of linguistic item can potentially have similar or even identical meanings, and therefore are designed to compare only one type of linguistic item. Furthermore, nearly all current similarity benchmarks within NLP contain...