a 69-year-old woman was admitted to hospital 4 times from november 2007 to june 2009. the patient had silicosis complicated by broncholithiasis, esophagobronchial fistula, and relapsed tuberculosis. she had worked as a stone crusher for 3 years and was exposed to a large amount of quartz dust. barium esophagography, gastroesophageal endoscopy, and biopsy suggested esophageal-related chronic inf...

with at least 11 hectares site locating on fashafooyeh from rey town, the archaic area of nachir khanloq is one of the important regions from islamic period that has been less noticed yet. unfortunately, some parts of this region have been leveled by farming equipments. in addition to its large area, great and massive distribution of cultural artifacts throughout this area, particularly several...

We demonstrate that Higgs discovery at the LHC is possible in the context of the NMSSM even for those scenarios such that the only strongly produced Higgs boson is a very SM-like CP-even scalar which decays almost entirely to a pair of relatvely light CP-odd states. In combination with other search channels, we are on the verge of demonstrating that detection of at least one of the NMSSM Higgs ...

the problem of aids had not been recognized up to 1981 and in 1984 it was found that hiv virus is factor of this disease. for the time beings aids/hiv infection has chanched to a pandemic and cases affected to it are now reported from all over the world. in our country the first case was reported in 1987. regarding the importance of disease and recognition of its prevention and transmission rou...

dna sequence determination is a tremendous human achievement. dna sequencing includes several methods and technologies in use for determining the order of the nucleotide bases (adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine) in a molecule of dna. knowledge of dna sequences has become indispensable for basic biological research, other research branches utilizing dna sequencing, and in numerous applied ...

background: ncds are the leading disease burdens in china and the ncds risk factors shifts have accelerated at an unprecedented scale over the past 30 years. the aim of this study was to analysis the natural trajectories of ncds risk factors over the life course. methods: the large-scale longitudinal data from the chns includes nine rounds of surveys between 1989 and 2011. overall, 145913 obser...

Introduction: Fasting during the holy month of Ramadan is an obligation for all adult, healthy Muslims. As several studies have indicated, both fasting and energy restriction can alter thyroid hormone metabolism and affect the clinical features and well-being of hypothyroid patients. Hypothyroidism is more prevalent among women and the elderly. Its prevalence has been reported to be 4-8% of the...