Pica and rumination disorders were moved from the Feeding disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood section of DSM-IV [2] to the Feeding and Eating disorders chapter of DSM-5 [3]. The prevalence of pica is difficult to establish because of differences in definition and the reluctance of patients to admit to abnormal cravings and ingestion. An incidence of Pica greater than 50% is considered norm...

Introduction:The prevalence of atopic diseases has increased in recent decades dramatically. The most common aeroallergens in Northeastern Iran have not been fully defined. Define the most common aeroallergens in allergic patients based on the skin prick test (SPT) was aimed in this investigation.Materials and Methods:This cross-sectional study enrolled 1,006 allergic patients (aged 1–86 years)...

It is shown that a total of eight pre-existing genus-group names in Diptera were “borrowed” and deliberately given new identities in the systematic works of J.C. Fabricius: Bibio Fabricius, 1775, Ceria Fabricius, 1794, Hirtea Fabricius, 1798, Mulio Fabricius, 1798, Scatophaga Fabricius, 1805, Sicus Fabricius, 1798, Thereva Fabricius, 1798 and Voluccella Fabricius, 1794. These names are reviewed...

The mature larvae and pupae of Lixus (Ortholixus) bituberculatus Smreczyński, 1968 and Lixus (Dilixellus) neglectus Fremuth, 1983 (Curculionidae: Lixinae: Lixini) are described and compared with known larvae of 21 other Lixus and 2 Hypolixus taxa. The mature larva and pupa of Lixus bituberculatus are the first immature stages described representing the subgenus Ortholixus. The larva of Lixus ne...

In this paper, the performance influencing class analysis (PICA) framework is proposed for performance analysis of pattern recognition systems dealing with data with great variety and diversity. Through the PICA procedure, the population of data is divided into subsets on which the system achieves different performances by means of statistical methods. On basis of the division, performance asse...

It is shown that a total of eight pre-existing genus-group names in Diptera were "borrowed" and deliberately given new identities in the systematic works of J.C. Fabricius: Bibio Fabricius, 1775, Ceria Fabricius, 1794, Hirtea Fabricius, 1798, Mulio Fabricius, 1798, Scatophaga Fabricius, 1805, Sicus Fabricius, 1798, Thereva Fabricius, 1798 and Voluccella Fabricius, 1794. These names are reviewed...

Strokes involving posterior inferior cerebellar arteries (PICA) are rare and usually unilateral. They can involve either the lateral division or the medial division of PICA. Sudden simultaneous cerebellar infarctions in the medial PICA territories are extremely rare. We report one such patient who presented with acute bilateral cerebellar infarctions in the medial PICA territories. She was a di...

OBJECTIVES Pica is the craving for and consumption of nonfood items, including the ingestion of earth (geophagy), raw starch (amylophagy), and ice (pagophagy). Pica has long been associated with micronutrient deficiencies, but the strength of this relationship is unclear. We aimed to evaluate the association between pica behavior and the risk of being anemic or having low hemoglobin (Hb), hemat...

this research was aimed to investgate the effect of light quality on micropropagation of pear rootstock oh×f333. first, single nodes explants were cultured in modified ql medium containing ba at four levels (0, 0.5, 1, and 2 mg/l-1) and iaa at three levels (0, 0.1, and 1 mg/l-1) and were evaluated for shoot proliferation. then, plantlets subcultured in modified ql medium containing 1 mg/l-1 ba ...

Following Baxter's method of producing Q 72-operator, we construct the Q-operator of the root-of-unity eight-vertex model for the crossing parameter η = 2mK N with odd N where Q 72 does not exist. We use this new Q-operator to study the functional relations in the Fabricius-McCoy comparison between the root-of-unity eight-vertex model and the superintegrable N-state chiral Potts model. By the c...