Background and Objectives: The main purpose of this study was to compare the predictive power of the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) with the Human Development Index (HDI) with regard to the share of deaths caused by Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) among all deaths in the world and Iran.   Methods: The data required for this cross-sectional ecological study were extracted f...

variable rate application (vra) based on site specific crop management (sscm) is an effective approach for optimizing the application of agricultural inputs and preventing the undesirable environmental impacts. design, construction and evaluation of a map-based vra system was the main objective followed in this research. for variable rate application based on the generated map, a direct injecti...

A robust learning control (RLC) scheme is developed for robotic manipulators by a synthesis of learning control and robust control methods. The non-linear learning control strategy is applied directly to the structured system uncertainties that can be separated and expressed as products of unknown but repeatable (over iterations) state-independent time functions and known state-dependent functi...

| This work proposes a pair of models for subcutaneous (sc) insulin kinetics. Three sc injections are considered over a 24 hour time period. Each injection delivers both fast and slow insulin, so that a third order system is built, whose components are the fast and slow sc masses of insulin and the plasma insulin concentration. The insulin injections are modeled as impulsive inputs. ODE (Ordina...

we have developed a three level implicit method for solution of the helmholtz equation. using the cubic spline in space and nite dierence in time directions. the approach has been modied to drive numerov type nite dierence method. the method yield the tri- diagonal linear system of algebraic equations which can be solved by using a tri-diagonal solver. stability and error estimation of the...

It has been demonstrated that the plasma membrane expression of ZIP1 is regulated by endocytic mechanisms. In the zinc-replete condition, the level of surface expressed ZIP1 is low due to the rapid internalization of ZIP1. The present study aimed to identify a sorting signal(s) in ZIP1 that mediated endocytosis of ZIP1. Four potential sorting signals (three di-leucine-and one tyrosine-based) we...