The neotype magnesium alloy, Mg-Nd-Zn-Zr (NZK) alloy, was implanted into the rabbit femur to investigate its in vivo degradation behavior and biocompatibility. Seventy-two New Zealand white rabbits were randomly divided into the NZK alloy group, titanium alloy group and sham-operated group. Then NZK alloy rods were embedded in the rabbit femur in the NZK alloy group, titanium alloy rods were em...

In early 2003 our team announced the discovery of the second extrasolar transiting planet, around the faint star OGLE-TR-56 (V = 16.6), based on the detection of small changes in the radial velocity of the primary. The star was originally identified as a candidate by the OGLE team from the shallow and periodic dips in its brightness. We present here new precise radial velocity measurements that...

PHILOSOPHY VII 1999 1. Opening WHAT IS THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL STATUS OF OUR KNOWledge of the truths of arithmetic? Are they analytic, the products of pure reason, as Leibniz held? Or are they high-level empirical truths that we know only a posteriori, as some empiricists, particularly Mill, have held? Or was Kant right to say that, although our knowledge that ‘5+7=12’ depends essentially upon intu...

Melanocytic skin tumors are caused by nevus cells, epidermal melanocytes and dermal melanocytes. The aim of the study was to detect the positivity of Demodex spp. in biopsy specimens of skin diagnosed as nevus. In this retrospective study, the specimens obtained from 110 patients diagnosed with nevus and stained by hematoxylin & eosin (H&E) method were assessed for Demodex. Statistical analysis...

49 he liberalization of the world’s energy markets is forcing the electric supply industry to reorganize itself from the ground up. On the one hand, it is expanding to include energy services, power marketing and information technology based services; and on the other, it is increasing asset utilization, reducing maintenance costs, and saving on investments by optimizing operation of the existi...

Resident Perspective: Subclinical ocular inflammation in patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitisRecurrent stomatitis is the most common oral mucosal ulcerative disease, primarily affecting buccal mucosa and tongue.1Akintoye SO Greenberg MS. Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis.Dent Clin North Am. 2014; 58: 281-297Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (121) Google Scholar This condition has been lin...