PATTERN OF CHANGES IN AGE-SPECIFIC FERTILITY RATES, TOTAL FERTILITY RATE, AND COHORT FERTILITY RATE IN RURAL AREAS OF FARS PROVINCE, SOUTHERN IRAN (1988-2012)

Pattern of Changes in Age-Specific Fertility Rates, Total Fertility Rate, and Cohort Fertility Rate in Rural Areas of Fars Province, Southern Iran (1988-2012)

Objective: To investigate the trend of changes in Age-Specific Fertility Rate (ASFR), Total Fertility Rate (TFR), and Cohort Fertility Rate (CFR) in rural areas of Fars province, southern Iran during 1988-2012.Materials and methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted based on analyze fluctuations in fertility.Information about the number of b

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Non-negative matrix factorisation methods for the spectral decomposition of MRS data from human brain tumours

Abstract Background In-vivo single voxel proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (SV 1H-MRS), coupled with supervised pattern recognition (PR) methods, has been widely used in clinical studies of discrimination of brain tumour types and follow-up of patients bearing abnormal brain masses.SV 1H-MRS provides useful biochemical information about the me

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