Background: Medical tourism (MT) refers to circumstances in which people travel for medical treatments. The present study focuses on determining factors affecting MT in Iran.   Methods: The study uses a mixed method approach. Initially, through a qualitative study, 12 experts were interviewed deeply; then, 22 participants in three equal focus groups expressed their ideas about growth an...

Abstract Aim Parastomal hernias are frequent and highly recurrent. The sandwich technique (ST) (Berger et al. [2007]) uses a double intraperitoneal mesh, whereas the retromuscular (RMT) (Pauli [2016]) dissects space, releases transversus muscle, lateralizes stoma to place mesh. aim was evaluate results of these interventions. Matherial & Methods Observational retrospective study patients wi...

introduction: neural stimulation is a promising new technology for the treatment of medically-intractable seizures.  transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms) is a simple, non-invasive, low cost technique which is widely used in neurophysiology. in a few studies that have been performed at different frequencies the therapeutic effects of this technique were not obvious. repetition of low frequenc...

The magnetotelluric method has improved significantly in recent years and is being used in hydrocarbon exploration in regions where seismic exploration is difficult. This includes areas where highvelocity carbonates and volcanic rocks are present in the near surface, overthrust belts, and in subsalt imaging. Magnetotelluric exploration was used in the Rocky Mountain Foothills in 2002 to determi...

RMT estimator estimates the number of signals via sequentially testing the likelihood of an eigenvalue as arising from a signal or from noise. However, the RMT estimator does not consider the interaction term among eigenvalues, so it tends to down-estimate the number of signals as some signals will be buried in this interaction term. In order to overcome this problem, in this paper we focus on ...

MT2DInvMatlab is an open-source MATLAB software package for two-dimensional (2D) inversion of magnetotelluric (MT) data; it is written in mixed languages of MATLAB and FORTRAN. MT2DInvMatlab uses the finite element method (FEM) to compute 2D MTmodel responses, and smoothness-constrained least-squares inversion with a spatially variable regularization parameter algorithm to stabilize the inversi...

Anomalous, large pipe-to-soil potentials (PSP) have been observed along a natural gas pipeline in eastern Ontario, Canada, where there is a major geological contact between the highly resistive rocks of the Precambrian Shield to the west and the more conductive Paleozoic sediments to the east. This study tested the hypothesis that large variations of PSP are related to lateral changes of Earth ...

RMT (Research Methods Tutor) is a dialog-based tutoring system currently being used in conjunction with university-level courses on research methods in psychology. RMT has a web-based interface and uses a talking head to to present its dialog acts to the student. The student types in unconstrained natural language responses. Although RMT currently focuses on natural language-based interaction w...

Magnetotelluric (MT) problems often contain different subdomains where the conductivity of the media depends upon one, two, or three spatial variables. Traditionally, when a MT problem incorporates a three-dimensional (3D) subdomain, the numerical method employed for simulation and inversion was 3D over then entire domain. In here, we propose to take advantage of the possibly lower dimensionali...