introduction failed back surgery syndrome (fbss) is an increasing cause of chronic pain in most countries. this poses high costs to both patients and national health organizations. case presentation in this report, multimodal pain management based on daily high-dose oxycodone/naloxone (oxn 180/90 mg) led to reduced patient's pain score and improved quality of life. conclusions oxycodone/naloxon...

With the daily expansion of global energy consumption, developing power grids is uttermost importance. However, building a new transmission line costly and time-consuming, so utilizing same lines with possible higher capacity very cost-effective. In this regard, to increase lines, flexible alternating current system (FACTS) has been widely used in recent years by industrialized countries. One e...

OBJECTIVE : To determine the impact of contaminant iron and geophagy on iron intake and status of persons living in developing countries. DESIGN : Literature for review was identified by searching Medline and Agricola, from appropriate other texts and from three reports from the Opportunities for Micronutrient Interventions (OMNI) Project of USAID. SETTING : The dietary intake of iron by pe...

Electron-multiplying charge-coupled devices are efficient imaging for low-surface-brightness ultraviolet astronomy from space. The large amplification allows photon counting (PC), the detection of events versus nonevents. This paper provides statistics observation process, photon-counting and compression. expression signal-to-noise PC is written in terms polygamma function. optimal exposure tim...

osteoporosis is a major health problem because of the large health care costs associated with its clinical consequences. it is therefore of great importance to identify modifiable risk factors. we investigated association between fruit and vegetables intake and bone mineral density in rural population of tehran surroundings. subjects were a subgroup of a large study on prevalence and causes of ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate patients' perceptions of improvement potential in primary care in 34 countries. METHODS We did a cross-sectional survey of 69 201 patients who had just visited general practitioners at primary-care facilities. Patients rated five features of person-focused primary care - accessibility/availability, continuity, comprehensiveness, patient involvement and doctor-patient ...

PURPOSE The benefit of milk intake remains controversial. The association between milk consumption and Framingham Risk Score (FRS) in a population consuming relatively low amounts of dairy products is undetermined. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 13736 adults (5718 male and 8018 female) aged 20-80 years from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2008-2011) were divided ...

Dynamic monitoring of building environments is essential for observing rural land changes and socio-economic development, especially in agricultural countries, such as China. Rapid accurate extraction floor area estimation at the village level are vital overall planning development intensive use “beautiful countryside” construction policy Traditional situ field surveys an effective way to colle...