Roads, as the main artificial linear structures in any landscape, have an important role in the vulnerability of natural ecosystems and their sustainability.The purpose of this research is to introduce a systematic method for ecological vulnerability assessment to be used in road site selection and environmental impact assessment procedure.Five ste
A $ extit{sigma partitioning}$ of a graph $G$ is a partition of the vertices into sets $P_1, ldots, P_k$ such that for every two adjacent vertices $u$ and $v$ there is an index $i$ such that $u$ and $v$ have different numbers of neighbors in $P_i$.The $ extit{ sigma number}$ of a graph $G$, denoted by $sigma(G)$, is the minimum number $k$ such that
Background & Aims: Three-dimensional organoid culture has fundamentally changed the in vitro study of intestinal biology enabling novel assays; however, its use is limited because of an inaccessible luminal compartment and challenges to data gathering in a three-dimensional hydrogel matrix.Long-lived, self-renewing 2-dimensional (2-D) tissue cultur
IntroductionSalivary gland dysfunction (e.g., sialadenitis and xerostomia) is the most common complication of radioactive Wired Microphones iodine (RAI) therapy for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC).Several methods have been used to reduce/prevent this adverse effect.We aimed to systematically review the effectiveness of non-pharmacological and p