abstract   background: sacroiliac joint (sij) dysfunction is a widely known but poorly defined cause of low back pain. to our knowledge, few published studies have been conducted to evaluate systematically the prevalence and significance of concomitant sacroiliac joint dysfunction in patients with herniated lumbar discs. as concomitant sij dysfunction in low back pain patients is likely to resp...

Background: Asthma is the chronic inflammation of airways characterized by eosinophilic infiltration, mucus overproduction, airway hyper-responsiveness and airway remodeling. These changes are induced mostly by cytokines which are produced by T helper (Th) 2 cells. Recently, the role of interleukin-23 (IL-23) in the pathogenesis of adultallergic asthma has been studied. Objective: To explore IL...

although current guidelines place single leukotriene receptor antagonists use as a therapeutic option in mild persistent asthma, there is still uncertainty about its place. in this study efficiency of montelukast monotherapy in children with moderate persistent asthma was evaluated. children (age 6 to 16) with persistent moderate asthma were treated prospectively with budesonide combined with m...

We document large, longer term, joint regime shifts in asset valuations and the real federal funds rate- r * $r^{\ast }$ spread. To interpret these findings, we estimate a novel macrofinance model of monetary transmission find that documented regimes coincide with parameters policy rule, long-term consequences for interest rate. Estimates imply two-thirds decline rate since early 1980s is attri...

This paper presents a joint scheduling, beamforming, and resource allocation algorithm for multi-user wireless networks affected by co-channel interference. The analysis considers a network with one base station (BS) that uses a multiple antenna transmitter (beamformer) to schedule (in a time-division manner) transmissions towards a set of $J$ one-antenna terminals in the presence of $K$ persis...