Falling and being in love is a cross-cultural universal. The poet Khwaja Šams ud-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Širazi, or simply Hafez (14 th century D.C.), an important influence for both Persian and European culture, is noted for his love poetry. The first aim of the present study was to check to what extent items of a current questionnaire of love match themes of love found in Hafez‘ poetry. Then, we...

In the present study, Mefenamic acid 200 mg controlled release matrices were prepared by direct compression and in vitro drug dissolution studies were performed to find out the drug release rate and patterns. Methocel was used as rate controlling polymer. Also the effect of several co-excipients was investigated on the drug release rates during in vitro dissolution studies. Polymer Methocel was...

In every dimension d ≥ 1, we establish the existence of a positive finite constant vd and of a subset Ud of R d such that the following holds: C + Ud = R d for every convex set C ⊂ R of volume at least vd and Ud contains at most log(r) r points at distance at most r from the origin, for every large r.

The Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) Algorithm is one of swarm intelligence optimization algorithms. Usually the population’s values of PSO algorithm are random which leads to random distribution of search quality and search velocity. This paper presents PSO based on uniform design (UD). UD is widely used in various applications and introduced to generate an initial population, in which the po...

Spaţiile virtuale 3D devin din ce în ce mai mult utilizate, de la jocuri până la aplicaţii industriale, medicale, militare sau ştiinţifice. Unele dintre cele mai importante aplicaţii ale acestora sunt în e-learning şi edutainment. Lucrarea de faţă prezintă elementele constitutive şi aspecte ale creării unui”muzeu virtual 3D”, pornind de la experienţa autorilor în dezvoltarea aplicaţiei software...

The concentration of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) in the porewaters of shallow-water tropical marine sediments can be as high as 50-100 µM, at sediment depths of shallow as 20 cm. These concentrations are at least two-orders of magnitude greater than the DIN concentration in the overlying water. High porewater concentrations, and the resulting concentration gradient, result in substantial...

We describe a cohort of 50 elderly subjects, age at least 70 years. We present gender-specific findings in T lymphocyte markers and soluble immune mediators. We show the correlation between cytomegalovirus infection status with CD56(dim) NK cell responses to a variety of stimuli and with CD56(bright)/CD56(dim) NK cell ratio. We also present the correlation of retinol binding protein (RBP)-4 pla...

Rezumat: Sănătatea fizică și psihică bună reprezintă indubitabil unele dintre cele mai prețioase calități pe care le poate poseda o persoană. Fără aceste elemente, orice activitate simplă devine un efort iar orice efort devine o imposibilitate. Astfel, o mare parte din populația din România care se prezintă în camera cu gardă cu stare generală alterată dată de hipertensiunea arteriala (HA) rapo...

BACKGROUND Ductal intraepitelial neoplasia (DIN) represents a spectrum of disease that may progress from usual hyperplasia to ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) grade 3. The aim of the study was to asses the correlation between the DIN classification and the surgical treatment including sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB). PATIENTS AND METHODS In this retrospective study, 229 patients with DIN had...

A novel stability-indicating reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography method was developed and validated for the simultaneous determination of Celecoxib (CEL) and Diacerein (DIN) and its impurities in capsule dosage form. The method was developed using L1 column with gradient using the mobile phase consist of Solution A (pH = 2.3 buffer) and Solution B (methanol and acetonitrile; 50...