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Reducing poor–rich inequities in health is one of the priorities of both national and international organizations and is also one of the main challenges of health sectors in Iran. Since, in the view of policy making, quantifying the size of inequity in health care utilization (HCU) is a prerequisite...

Introduction: This study aims to investigate how image settings affect carotid Intima-Media-Thickness (IMT) and diameter estimation performed with Carotid Studio (Quipu-Srl). Methods: Fourteen healthy volunteers (24.4 ± 4.4 years; eight men) were recruited. Longitudinal scans 3-cm-deep of common-carotid-arteries...

This paper combines the niche particle concept and quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO) method with chaotic mutation to train neural networks for image inspection. When exploring the methodology of reinforced quantum-behaved particle swarm (RQPSO) to train neural networks (RQPSONNs) for...

In this paper, we study the periodic Hunter–Saxton equation with weak dissipation. We first establish the local existence of strong solutions, blow-up scenario and blow-up criteria of the equation. Then, we investigate the blow-up rate for the blowing-up solutions to the equation. Finally, we prove that...

An anomaly detection model using deep learning for detecting disaster-stricken (landslide) areas in synthetic aperture radar images is proposed. Since it is difficult to obtain a large number of training images, especially disaster area images, with annotations, we design an anomaly detection model that...

Objective: The Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) enzyme is involved in degrading extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins, including collagen and elastin. Increased MMP-9 levels are associated with increased vascular remodelling and arterial stiffness. Exercise improves age-related vascular stiffening. It...

Hypertension is a contributing factor to pathophysiology of vascular damage and accelerated arterial stiffening. Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibitors are widely used for treatment of persistent hypertension. Along with conventional antihypertensive therapy, nutritional intervention...

Objective: Aortic stiffness evaluation is recommended in standard care as hypertension target organ damage. The main determinants of aortic stiffness are age and blood pressure. We aimed to evaluate the impact of short-term extracellular volume changes induced by dietetic and pharmacological interventions...

Objectives: Arterial elasticity is determined by passive mechanical properties of wall components modulated by neurogenic effects on smooth muscle. We assessed denervation effects on viscoelastic properties of the aorta of Lewis Polycystic Kidney (LPK) disease rats, compared to controls (Lewis). Methods:...

Mobile infrastructure technological development in the last decade leads to novel mobile commerce based advertisement addressing the businesses and end-consumers. Although location-based services developed rapidly in recent years, the reasons why we proposed a new system were lack of an intelligent location-based...

In our research, we develop the robot to combine with the consciousness and behavior which is the conscious and behavior robot (CONBE). In this paper we present the basis system in the CONBE robot that consist of the two main sections as the face recognition and robot gaze tracking. This system uses...

Nowadays less and less people are willing to do hard works. Which makes that the controller based on human skill is needed. Cerebellar model articulation controller (CMAC) is a kind of neural networks (NNs) that can easily solve problems of nonlinear system. Compared with other NNs the advantage of CMAC...

An automated wood species recognition system is designed to perform wood inspection at custom checkpoints in order to avoid illegal logging. The system that includes image acquisition, feature extraction and classification is able to classify the 52 wood species. There are 100 images taken from the each...

Orthogonal separability of finite-dimensional Hamiltonians is characterized by using various geometrical concepts, including Killing tensors, moving frames, the Nijehuis tensor, bi-Hamiltonian and quasi-bi-Hamiltonian representations. In addition, a complete classification of separable metrics defined...

In this paper we give a method to obtain Darboux transformations (DTs) of integrable equations. As an example we give a DT of the dispersive water wave equation. Using the Miura map, we also obtain the DT of the Jaulent-Miodek equation.

We present a geometric version of the Lie algebra 2-cocycle connected to quasi- geostrophic motion in the beta-plane approximation. We write down an Euler equation for the fluid velocity, corresponding to the evolution equation for the stream function in quasigeostrophic motion.

We study the dynamics of a network consisting of N diffusively coupled, stable-limit-cycle oscillators on which individual frequencies are parametrized by ωk , k = 1, . . . , N. We introduce a learning rule which influences the ωk by driving the system towards a consensual oscillatory state in which...

Agriculture, one of the most important industries for human life, is faced with serious problems, the shortage of workers, the falling birthrate and the aging population, global warming and natural disasters, etc. Tomato is one of the most important fruit vegetables, and most tomatoes in Japan are cultivated...

Background: The inhibition of the vitamin K cycle by warfarin promotes arterial calcification in the rat. Conceivably, genetically determined vitamin K deficiency owing to a mutant epoxide reductase subcomponent 1 (Vkorc1) gene, a key component of the vitamin K cycle, might also promote arterial calcification....

With the rise of the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM), more and more investors have begun to pay attention to it and begin to consider investing in related listed companies. Therefore, the healthy and stable development of the GEM is of great significance to investors. The management of the company is...

Background: Soluble Klotho is an anti-ageing phosphaturic protein associated with cardiovascular and renal protection. In-vitro and in-vivo studies have demonstrated that rennin-angiotensin-system (RAS) blockade increases soluble Klotho levels. The effect of RAS blockers on soluble Klotho in patients...

Background: Renal denervation (RDN) was shown to be effective in reducing peripheral BP in treatment resistant hypertension. Accumulating data suggest that central pressures may be a better predictor of cardiovascular events and outcomes than the corresponding peripheral pressure. PP amplification is...

Background: Cardiovascular disease is prevalent in type 2 diabetes, and both endothelial dysfunction and arterial stiffness may contribute in the pathogenesis. Low levels of vitamin D are associated with both type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Aim: To evaluate the effect of vitamin D supplementation...

Multi-scales method is used to analyze a nonlinear differential-difference equation. In the order 3 the NLS eq. is found to determine the space-time evolution of the leading amplitude. In the next order this has to satisfy a complex mKdV eq. (the next in the NLS hierarchy) in order to eliminate secular...

The different natures of approximate symmetries and their corresponding first intgrals/invariants are delineated in the contexts of both Lie symmetries of ordinary differential equations and Noether symmetries of the Action Integral. Particular note is taken of the effect of taking higher orders of the...

The cubic Hénon-Heiles system contains parameters, for most values of which, the system is not integrable. In such parameter regimes, the general solution is expressible in formal expansions about arbitrary movable branch points, the so-called psi-series expansions. In this paper, the convergence of...

Probabilistic risk assessment is the systematic and comprehensive methodology to evaluate the risk of nuclear power plants. Currently some aspects, which are the hazard analysis and fragility evaluation in the probabilistic risk assessment of natural events in nuclear power plants need to be improved....

The Personal Health Record (PHR) could be seen as a preventive care solution to the incoming aging society. The blockchain-based PHR system has been proposed recently to enhance the security and privacy for the PHR data. Consequently, the performance becomes a concern for blockchain-PHR integration because...

Introduction: Malignancies are the second leading cause of death worldwide. Treatment Monoclonal Antibody (MAbs)-based treatment of cancer has been established as one of the most successful therapeutic strategies in the last 20 years; however, there is a growing concern about the effects of these agents...

This paper proposes a pedestrian detection method using a MY VISION system. The MY VISION system is an image processing system using an ego-camera which a user of the system possesses, and it is expected to be the third eye of those who are aged, visually impaired or even those who are absorbed in a...

In the space of complex-valued smooth functions on S2 × S1, we explicitly realize a Weil representation of the real Lie algebra sp(4) by means of differential generators. This representation is a rare example of highest weight irreducible representation of sp(4) all whose weight spaces are 1-dimensional....