background: the superiority of either of body mass index (bmi), waist circumference (wc), waist-to-hip ratio (whr) and waist-to-height ratio (whtr) for prediction of metabolic syndrome (mets) is remained controversial in asian population. the objective of this study was to compare the discriminative capacity of either of these measures in prediction of non-adipose components of mets. methods: i...

INTRODUCTION Biomechanically proximal femoral nail (PFN) is a better choice of implant, still it is associated with screw breakage, cut out of screw through femoral head, Z effect, reverse Z effect, and lateral migration of screws. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the results of augmented PFN in terms of prevention of postoperative complications and failure rates in unstable trochanteri...

Surface replacement of the hip was introduced as an alternative to conventional replacement. Unfortunately, its theoretical advantages have been overshadowed by the high incidence of early failure (Head 1981 ; Jolley, Salvati and Brown 1982; Bell et al. 1985). If failure necessitates removal of the prosthesis, we advocate preservation of the femoral neck stump for articulation. We report five s...

carpal tunnel syndrome (cts) is considered by researchers because of its high prevalence, and several studies have been done to find the causes and factors which increase the chance for the syndrome. these studies have shown relationships between this syndrome with some physical parameters like wrist dimensions, weight and systemic conditions. there is no investigation on risk factors in cts in...

Regulatory molecules S. Matsuzaki, Y. Shimizu, K. Dobashi, T. Nagamine, T. Satoh, T. Ohkubo, A. Yokoyama, Y. Ishii, T. Kamiya, K. Arakawa, S. Makino, M. Utsugi, T. Ishizuka, S. Tanaka, K. Shimizu and M. Mori. Analysis on the co-localization of asbestos bodies and Fas or CD163 expression in asbestos lung tissue by in-air micro-PIXE........................................ D.E. Lorke, M.S.M. Wai, ...

One of the central changes in 20th century linguistics was the reconceptualization of language as a cognitive ability rather than merely an abstract relational system of signs — in the terminology of Chomsky (1986), the move from E-language to I-language. This shift entails that linguistic theory is no longer measured exclusively by empirical coverage, succinctness of description, and conceptua...