Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by the development of autoantibodies associated with specific clinical manifestations. Previous studies have shown an association between differential DNA methylation and SLE susceptibility, but have not investigated SLE-related autoantibodies. Our goal was to determine whether DNA methylation is associated with production of clinically releva...

Traditional statistical methods for confidentiality protection of statistical databases do not scale well to deal with GWAS (genome-wide association studies) databases especially in terms of guarantees regarding protection from linkage to external information. The more recent concept of differential privacy, introduced by the cryptographic community, is an approach which provides a rigorous def...

in this paper, first the properties of one and two-dimensional differential transforms are presented.next, by using the idea of differential transform, we will present a method to find an approximate solution fora volterra integro-partial differential equations. this method can be easily applied to many linear andnonlinear problems and is capable of reducing computational works. in some particu...

Abstract Background Some phenotypical changes may be related to in the associations among genes. The set of such is referred as gene interaction (or association) networks. An association network represents genes a given condition. Given two experimental conditions, Differential analysis (DNA) algorithms analyse these differences by deriving novel representing differences. Such receive input gen...

BACKGROUND A previous observational study detected a strong positive relationship between sick leave absences and carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in office buildings in the Boston area. The authors speculated that the observed association was due to a causal effect associated with low dilution ventilation, perhaps increased airborne transmission of respiratory infections. This study was und...

background the induction ofâ  cancers incidence by exogenous agents, such as chemical, radiation and especially research on viruses is an interestedâ  area of active basic subjectsâ  and clinical investigation. prominent researches sounds aâ  high prevalence of hbv marker has been found in patients with leukemia as compared to the general population. methods: presentâ  â study was conducted fro...

occupational therapy in iran is relatively young-established in 1971-with a fluctuated development due to the iranian revolution in 1979, and eight years war from 1981 to 1989. today, there are ten bachelor programs across the country approved by world federation of occupational therapists (wfot). furthermore, occupational therapists have opportunities for further postgraduate training in both ...

abstract precipitation is an important variable which is used in definition of drought. based on precipitation amounts, some indices are devised for drought monitoring including, the standardized precipitation index (spi) and the standard index of annual precipitation (siap). each of these drought indices are classified into some classes so that each class descripts a given severity of drought....

fauna of the aphidiinae (hymenoptera: braconidae) of iran is reviewed and the data on their host aphid associations are summarized. seventy-eight species belonging to 17 genera of aphidiinae are listed in the associations with 193 aphid species. a total of 491 parasitoid-aphid associations are presented. the distribution of the aphidiinae species in different parts of iran and other countries i...

chromatomyia horticola (goureau) (diptera: agromyzidae) is a highly polyphagous leaf miner that causes severe damage to different crops. sampling on the alysiinae (braconidae) parasitoids of c. horticola was performed at various locations of kermanshah province during 2009–2010. infested leaves of host plants bearing the larvae and puparia of c. horticola were collected and placed inside the pl...