Remission has not been a major topic in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in recent years but there is now increasing interest in analogy to rheumatoid arthritis (RA). RA and AS are chronic inflammatory diseases with more differences than similarities. New classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) have recently added patients with so called non-radiographic axSpA to the spectrum, he...

Physical exercise advantages have been manifested in several neurodegenerative and/or neuropsychiatric disorders implying that these, largely non-invasive, non-pharmacologic interventions, ought to be examined closely in the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other dementias context. Thus, according to the tenets of an increasingly broad consensus, preventative and interventional agents for AD and de...

Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous, non-infectious multifocal disorder of unknown etiology, characterized by the presence of non-caseous epithelioid granuloma in the tissue. About 20 to 40% of the patients are symptom-free and their disease is found through routine radiographic tests. The hypothetical causal agents include environmental and autoantigen aspects. The goal is to report a rare...

hadamard (or complete $cat(0)$) spaces are complete, non-positive curvature, metric spaces. here, we prove a nonlinear ergodic theorem for continuous non-expansive semigroup in these spaces as well as a strong convergence theorem for the commutative case. our results extend the standard non-linear ergodic theorems for non-expansive maps on real hilbert spaces, to non-expansive maps on had...

Frequent violations of fair principles in real-life settings raise the fundamental question whether such can guarantee existence a self-enforcing equilibrium free economy. We show that elementary distributive justice pure-strategy Nash exists finite economy where agents freely (and non-cooperatively) choose their inputs and derive utility from pay. Chief among these is that: 1) your pay should ...

Ionizing and non-ionizing electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation, either stand-alone or in combination with other agents, exert health effects on biological systems. The present chapter examines the scope of non-ionizing EMF radiation combined effects; i.e., identifies effects on biological systems from combined exposure to non-ionizing electromagnetic fields/radiation and at least one other age...

Intravenous contrast (IV) agents are used by Interventional Pain Management specialists for accurate localization of needle positions and spread of contrast agents to delineate pertinent anatomy. IV contrast agents are classified chemically as non-ionic or ionic monomers and dimers. Non-ionic IV contrast agents are more hydrophilic which makes them less neurotoxic. They also have a lower osmola...

Currently, silver nanoparticles have boomed in food and medicine due to their potential applications, such as antibacterial anticancer activity. These been synthesized by several techniques; however, green synthesis has taken on greater importance the non-generation of toxic residues. Green constructed from plant parts; new trend comprises use agri-food waste extracts, known sustainable synthes...

The Electronic System and Information Technology Research Group at Brunel University has designed a multifaceted navigation system for blind and visually impaired pedestrians. The primary operation of the system mimics the advantages of an informed sighted guide by using Global Positioning Systems and remote (sighted on the user) video cameras as navigational sensors. The information generated ...