Background and Aim. To evaluate the effect of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus to Helicobacter pylori eradication in different periods of therapeutic protocol. Methods. Infected patients were randomized to one-week tailored triple therapy (esomeprazole 20 mg bid, clarithromycin 500 mg bid/metronidazole 400 mg tid if clarithromycin resistant, and amoxici...

A fourth-generation Ziegler-Natta catalyst was prepared to synthesize polypropylene (PP), which was stabilized by in situpolymerization employing lignin as antioxidant. The antioxidant properties of lignin were compared with those of the commercial antioxidant Irganox 1010. The presence of lignin in the reaction medium slightly decreased the catalytic activity of the reaction. The isotacticity ...

*Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080, USA Abstract Background: This paper investigates the influence maximization (IM) problem in social networks under the linear threshold (LT) model. Kempe et al. (ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 137–146, 2003) showed th...

Aphrodite of Knidos, which identified the reproductive organs as her "region of insanity" (Fig. 2.76, p. 108). Over-generalizations and the odd inconsistency are inevitable in a book that ranges so far, and many minor criticisms might be made of some of the authors' arguments, which they often lack space to fully substantiate (e.g., the assertion that the Enlightenment placed new emphasis on in...

Background: Literature review shows that there are not sufficient data about polyphenolic compounds of peel of Iranian pomegranate. So, this work was mainlyundertaken to determine phenolic compounds and antioxidant activity of dried peel of Iranian pomegranate. Methods: Pomegranate fruits were obtained from mature fruits grown in Saveh, Iran and the Pomegranate Peel (PP) were dried with three ...

The aim of this study was to test the genotypes effect of DGAT1 gene on breeding value in Iranian Holstein milk production traits. For this purpose, 103 semen samples of registered bulls were collected and then genotyped for partial region of DGAT1 gene. The studied traits were milk yield (MY), fat yield (FY), protein yield (PY), fat percentage (FP) and protein percentage (PP). First lactation ...

Functionality plays an important role in design problems, because it represents a part of “design rationales” [Chandarasekaran et al. 93, Lee 97]. A lot of research has been carried out on functional representation of artifacts such as [Chandrasekaran et al. 93, Iwasaki et al. 93, Lind 94, Sasajima et al. 95]. Many of them investigate only “to achieve”-type relations among functions. Neverthele...

Background. Helicobacter pylori is associated with several upper gastrointestinal conditions including chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, and gastric malignancy. Proton pump inhibitor-based triple therapies are considered the standard regimens for H. pylori eradication, but the optimal duration of therapy is controversial. To prevent infection and complications, local studies should be un...

ion (detailed summary). In Proceedings 1986 ACMConference on LISP and Functional Programming, pp.351-363. ACM (August, 1986).13. P. Hudak, A. Bloss and J. Young, Code optimizations for lazy evaluation. Lisp and Symbolic Computation: An International Journal1 (2), 147-1 64 (1988).And a s always, we thank the 'grapplers' a t Yale for their never-ending support. 14. P. Hudak an...