BACKGROUND Lumbar multifidus muscle dysfunction and chronic low back pain are strongly correlated. There is no consensus regarding treatment of chronic LBP. The effect of platelet leukocyte rich plasma (PLRP) injections on atrophied lumbar multifidus (LMF) muscle and chronic low back pain has never been studied before. PATIENTS AND METHODS One hundred fifteen patients with chronic non-specifi...

Sargassum is a brown macroalga that has become general environmental problem in the Mexican Caribbean. Despite negative effects on beaches, algae contain compounds of biotechnological and agronomic interest. The possibility using sargassum as substrate under liquid media fermentation (LMF) processes will allow obtention bioactive compounds. In this research, five species from Puerto Morelos reg...

Lexical resources are key components for applications related to human language technology. Various models of lexical resources have been designed and implemented during the last twenty years and the scientific community has now gained enough experience to design a common standard at an international level. This paper thus describes the ongoing activity within ISO/TC 37/SC 4 on LMF (Lexical Mar...

Light and nitrogen availability are among the most important environmental factors influencing leaf root morphological traits forest ecosystems. Understanding variation in is pivotal to adaptive plasticity leaf-root-specific response low light N availability. The effects of on their interrelations still not clear. We aimed measure a temperate region. Thus, factorial experiment was conducted wit...

LMF Tee1*, KF Ma2, Benjamin M Yeh3, Zhen J Wang3 1Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, KwongWah Hospital, Hong Kong 2Department of Radiology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong 3Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, the United States of America

Managers of forested water supply catchments require efficient and accurate methods to quantify changes in forest water use due to changes in forest structure and density after disturbance. Using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data with as few as 0.9 pulses m−2, we applied a local maximum filtering (LMF) method and normalised cut (NCut) algorithm to predict stocking density (SDen) of a 69-...

Interstocks improve the growth and salt resistance of lemon (Citrus limon (L.) Burm. f.) trees, but their effects on orange (Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck) trees are unknown. We grew 'Cleopatra' mandarin (CM) seedlings, budded trees of 'Salustiano' orange (SAO) on CM, 'Valencia Late' orange (VLO) on CM (VLO/CM), and interstock trees VLO/SAO/CM in pots of sand watered with nutrient solution contai...