BACKGROUND Low back pain (LBP) is chronic disease without a curative therapy. Alternative and complementary therapies are widely used in the management of this condition. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the efficacy of home application of Dead Sea mud compresses to the back of patients with chronic LBP. METHODS Forty-six consecutive patients suffering from chronic LBP were recruited. All patients we...

Nonlethal predator effects can significantly influence trophic interactions, and in this study we examined how size relationships between predators and prey would influence the ex pression of nonlethal predator effects. We assessed how size and vulnerability to predators would influence nonlethal effects in bivalve species common to oyster reefs. We used 2 size classes of mussels Ischadium recu...

Mud volcanoes are defined as main elements of geological structures and ways through and within which buried argillaceous loose sediments and lithified rocks. The Gharniaregh Tappeh and Naftelijeh mud volcanoes are the most attractive geomorphological phenomena in continental which appear along the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea. The Naftelijeh mud volcano is more active than Gharniaregh–Tapp...

This paper explains about the mud for CDMA and compares different techniques available in the same field and comes out with the most effective approach. A brief explanation about interference cancellation, decorrelator mud and successive interference cancellation have been emphasized

Barite is an important additive material to increase the weight of excavation mud. It has been used extensively in the excavation mud industry. The barite particle sizes used in excavation mud is very important. There is a direct relationship between the amount on the sift of 200 and 325 mesh. By reducing particle sizes of the 200 and 325 mesh, the specific gravity of the barite power increased...

Aim of the project is efficiency increase of hard rocks destruction at borehole bottom by developing drilling mud solution and evaluation of its influence on drilling process. The article presents the results of studies directed on studying of drilling mud composition (the choice of reagent concentrations, taking into account the filtration properties, structural and rheological parameters, stu...

In this paper, the uplink direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) multiuser detection problem (MUD) is studied into heuristic perspective, named particle swarm optimization (PSO). Regarding different system improvements for future technologies, such as high-order modulation and diversity exploitation, a complete parameter optimization procedure for the PSO applied to MUD problem...

In this contribution we propose and study a multicarrier direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (MC DSCDMA) scheme, which employs both time (T)-domain and frequency (F)-domain spreading. We investigate the achievable detection performance in the context of synchronous TF-domain spread MC DS-CDMA, when communicating over an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. The performance of ...

The discrimination between functionally neutral amino acid substitutions and non-neutral mutations, affecting protein function, is very important for our understanding of diseases. The rapidly growing amounts of experimental data enable the development of computational tools to facilitate the annotation of these substitutions. Here, we describe a Random Forests-based classifier, named Mutation ...