IN recent years synthetic analogues of cortisone and hydrocortisone have been employed in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Prednisone and prednisolone were first used by Bunim, Pechet, and Bollet in 1955, and since then further reports Although the greater anti-rheumatic effects and lessened risks of sodium retention in these compounds have been advantageous, most workers have been concer...

the effect of supportive companionship on length of labor and desire to breastfeed in primiparous women    samieizadeh toosi t [1] *, sereshti m [2] , dashipur ar [3] , mohammadinia n [4] , arzani a [5]    received : 14 april , 2011 accepted: 10 june , 2011    abstract  background & aims: child birth is the most significant life change experience for primiparous women with lifelong effects on t...

Wave propagation is used as an advanced tool of determining elastic properties of rocks. In spite of being cheap and non destructive tests of rock mechanics, due to its modernity method is not yet replacing the traditional dear and destructive tests. In order to pave ways of replacing this test and making best use of it all effective factors of such method are to be assessed. One fundamental fa...

Both functional and cosmetic rhinoplasty in the elderly require a different surgical approach due to the morphological and structural changes of the nose that are connected to the aging process. Such processes determine changes of all anatomical structures that form the aesthetic-functional unit. In particular thinning of the skin envelope becomes apparent with pores dilatation and increased se...

Themodynamicplly stnincd four membered cyclic 8-lactams do not show a corrcspondimg kinetic effect in the rates of their ring openhg reactions. Contrary to expectations. breaking the C-N bond in these mined ring seuc~ures appears to be a relatively difficult process. A four membend cyclic phosphonamidate. on the other hand, undergoes rapid hydrolysis in water with exclusive endocyclic P-N fisio...

PLASMA INDUCED DAMAGE TO Si AND SiGe DEVICES AND MATERIALS by Wei Zhong This thesis studied the plasma-induced damage to Si and strained Sii_„Ge,,, and the resulting change in device characteristics. The energetic particles (ions, electrons and photons) in plasma reactor present a potentially hostile environment for processing VLSI devices. An inductively coupled plasma (ICP) reactor was used t...

BACKGROUND Orthodontic tooth movement results from application of forces to teeth. Elastics in orthodontics have been used both intra-orally and extra- orally to a great effect. Their use, combined with good patient co-operation provides the clinician with the ability to correct both anteroposterior and vertical discrepancies. Force decay over a period of time is a major problem in the clinical...

The American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group 36 (AAPM TG-36) data can be used to estimate peripheral dose (PD) distributions outside the primary radiation field. However, the report data does not apply to linear accelerators equipped with a multileaf collimator (MLC) and universal wedge (UW). Tertiary multileaf collimators have been shown to significantly affect PD distribution...

The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model, coupled to a GIS, was applied to the Naivasha basin in Kenya, a closed basin experiencing diverse climatic conditions from semi arid to humid, comprises with the only fresh water lake in the grate rift valley. The intent of this study was to estimates the lake water level fluctuations by integrating the SWAT with a water balance model, estimating...

In many knowledge intensive applications, there is a critical need to populate knowledge bases rapidly and to keep them up to date. Since the World Wide Web is a large source of information that continuously is being updated, a solution is to automatically acquire knowledge from text, which requires language understanding in a smaller or grater degree. The need for “rapid” text-to-knowledge acq...