background: periodontitis and rheumatoid arthritis (ra) share a number of clinical and pathologic features, one of which is the presence of the tumor necrosis factor alpha (tnf-α)-induced bone resorption that is involved in the pathogenesis of both. objectives: to investigate the effect of tnf-α blockade on periodontal conditions in patients with active ra. method: the periodontal statuses of 3...

We have calculated the complete electroweak O(α) radiative corrections to the single Higgs-boson production processes e + e − → ν l ¯ ν l H (l = e, µ, τ) in the electroweak Standard Model. Initial-state radiation beyond O(α) is included in the structure-function approach. The calculation of the corrections is briefly described, and numerical results are presented for the total cross section. In...

Techniques for using the Monte Carlo method to evaluate fuzzy Riemann integrals and improper fuzzy Riemann integrals are proposed in this paper. Owing to the α-level set of the (improper) fuzzy Riemann integral being the closed interval whose end points are the classical (improper) Riemann integrals, it is possible to invoke the Monte Carlo method to approximate the end points of the α-level cl...

Introduction: Pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as IL-1b and TNF- α have been suggested to be involved in the pathophysiology of depression. Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) are also thought to influence immune functions and concentrations of cytokines. The aim of this study was to evaluate the status of serum IL-1b and TNF-α in depressed patients who were treated, not treated, or poisoned wit...

Cosmography is a phenomenological and relatively model-independent approach to cosmology, where physical quantities are expanded as Taylor series in the cosmological redshift, or related variables. Here we apply this methodology constrain possible variations of fine-structure constant, α. Two peculiarities case existence high-redshift data, fact that one term directly tightly constraint by loca...

Nanoemulsion is an alternative and promising approach to overcome insolubility and bioavailability problems of bioactive compounds. In this study, the sonication parameter for preparing nanoemulsions with high α- tocopherol and linolenic acid content were optimized by using response surface methodology and their stability were evaluated during 2 months’ storage. The response surface analysis re...

We calculate the absolute intensity and anisotropies of the Lyman-α radiation field present during the epoch of reionization. We consider emission from both galaxies and the intergalactic medium (IGM) and take into account the main contributions to the production of Lyman-α photons: recombinations, collisions, continuum emission from galaxies and scattering of Lyman-n photons in the IGM. We fin...