Calcium supplementation has been considered the gold standard therapy for osteoporosis in the general population. It is given in both the placebo and treatment groups of trials evaluating antifracture efficacy of new therapies. Similarly, calcium-based phosphate binders have been considered the gold standard comparator for all new phosphate binders. However, large randomized trials demonstrate ...

We demonstrate a tiny, yet non-trivial evaluator that is powerful enough to run practical code, including itself. This is made possible using a Higher-Order Abstract Syntax (HOAS) representation — a technique that has become popular in syntax-related research during the past decade. With a HOAS encoding, we use functions to encode binders in syntax values, leading to an advantages of reflecting...

Ceramic Ultrafiltration membranes are considered as an alternative for the treatment of both stable water-in-oil and oil-in-water emulsions proved to be more effective in comparison with other conventional techniques. In this study, symmetric macro-porous ceramic membranes are prepared through dry pressing of α-alumina powder and the addition of various binders including Poly (vinyl alcohol). T...

Higher-order logical frameworks provide a powerful technology to reason about object languages with binders. This will be demonstrated for the case of the λμ-calculus with two different binders which can most elegantly be represented using a third-order constant. Since cases of thirdand higher-order encodings are very rare in comparison with those of second order, a second-order representation ...

A new approach towards the rapid identification of quality binders to cucurbiturils--those that combine high affinity with high selectivity for a particular homologue--was developed. The assay exploits macrocycle-specific optical fingerprints (colorimetric or fluorimetric) of carefully selected indicators dyes. The screening of a guest library revealed known (e.g., adamantane derivatives) and n...

In this work we propose an extension of Beta-binders with biological transactions, called TBeta-binders, in order to model a sequence of elementary actions atomically. This extension is useful when we need to specify multi-reactant multi-product reactions or when we use a sequence of actions to represent a single biological interaction. Some properties of these transactions are reported. Finall...

Silica refractory bricks are used especially in the metallurgical industries, due to desirable properties such as particularly their high melting point and their rigidity and strength at high temperatures. In this research, different amount of SiC were added to Silica refractory containing different binders such as Borax, Boric acid, Calcium nitride, Sodium tri poly phosphate, Sodium hexametaph...