Background: There is growing evidence that certain antibiotics exert their beneficial effects not only by killing or inhibiting the growth of bacterial pathogens but also indirectly by their immunomodulatory up regulatory effect on the immune system. Immunomodulatory effects of antibiotics could possibly influence the degree of the systemic and local response to infection. So, knowledge of thei...

Embolic strokes of undetermined source comprise a subset of cryptogenic ischemic strokes. It is thought that some embolic strokes of undetermined source could be due to left atrial thromboembolism without atrial fibrillation. The authors sought to determine whether a marker of left atrial pathological changes could pose as a surrogate marker of nonarrhythmogenic atrial thromboembolism in emboli...

Objective: To compare the benefits of 12 weeks abdominal and pelvic floor muscles (PFM) strength training for mild stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in obese women. Design: A randomized control trial with three months follow up. Setting: Bab El Sharia University Hospital. Subjects: Thirty female obese patients with mild SUI. Intervention: Abdominal exercises (Abd. ex's) group (n=15) received sp...

Embolic strokes of undetermined source comprise a subset of cryptogenic ischemic strokes. It is thought that some embolic strokes of undetermined source could be due to left atrial thromboembolism without atrial fibrillation. The authors sought to determine whether a marker of left atrial pathological changes could pose as a surrogate marker of nonarrhythmogenic atrial thromboembolism in emboli...

ferences attracted more than 200 delegates. Three preconference workshops were affiliated with AI’2004: The Third Business Agents and the Semantic Web workshop, organized by Harold Boley, Scott Buffett, Bruce Spencer (National Research Council), Ali Ghorbani (University of New Brunswick), and Said Tabet (Macgregor Inc.); the First Agent Meets Robot workshop, organized by Hamada Ghenniwa, (Unive...

BACKGROUND Freckles are due to an increase in the amount of dark pigments called melanin. These spots are more likely developed on the sun-exposed skin areas like the cheeks, nose, and forehead. Nevus is usually a benign melanocytic tumor and can be congenital or acquired. Due to the high influence of skin lesions on the person's appearance and quality of life, the aim of this study was to eval...

BACKGROUND According to WHO estimation, the number of diabetic patients would reach about 591.9 million people in 2035. The tendency towards other kinds of treatment is increasing because of the high therapeutic expenditures and current medical complications. Positive results of massage in recent articles and the prominent role of dalk in Iranian traditional medicine led us to the present study...

Under critical situation the main preoccupation of expert engineers is to assure power system security and to deliver power to the consumer within the desired index power quality. The total generation cost taken as a secondary strategy. This paper presents an efficient decomposed GA to enhance the solution of the Optimal Power Flow (OPF) with non-smooth cost function and under severe loading co...

A total of 394 bacterial isolates were isolated from Kasr AlAiny hospital wastewater effluent and river Nile water in Cairo (Egypt). Each 2 isolates from both sources were mixed in co-cultures and incubated (at room temperature) in sterilized Nile water for 48 hours under normal laboratory condition, taking into consideration the same gram staining and the different species. In addition, some i...