BACKGROUND The present study evaluated the efficacy of a combination of ibandronate and cholecalciferol on the restoration of the levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) and various bone markers in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. METHODS This was a randomized, double-blind, active-controlled, prospective 16-week clinical trial conducted in 20 different hospitals. A total of 201 postme...

The idea of Communitarianism with epistemic teachings, such as politics as virtue, the priority of good faith, respect for the cultural diversity of societies, is one of the most prominent intellectual currents of the present age. The hypothesis of this research is that based on the comparative analytical attitude of key societal teachings and the epistemic principles of Islam, one can find com...

bark". Dietrich provides eleven notes to Ibn al-Baitar's commentary and, as he does in all entries, attempts to identify the plant in modern nomenclature. In this instance, however, Dietrich says, "The plant's identification is very doubtful, perhaps impossible to know". And, he references his discussion of the plant in his Dioscurides triumphans. The reverse happens as well. As an illustration...

We introduce and study the partial singular braid monoid PSBn, a monoid that contains both the inverse braid monoid IBn and the singular braid monoid SBn. Our main results include a characterization of Green’s relations, a presentation in terms of generators and relations, and a proof that PSBn embeds in the semigroup algebra C[IBn].

London. Mr. Yusuf Ali begins by contrasting the death-rate of England and Wales, which was only 15 4 in the year 1903 with the 34 per mille for India in the same year ; that is, if the death-rate of India were on a par with that of England, there would annually be over 5 a million lives saved. Infant mortality accounts for a very lame share of these figures in India, and of course there is fami...

BACKGROUND The purposes of this study were to investigate the clinical outcomes of enterococcal bacteriuria and to determine whether current management is adherent to Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines. METHODS We conducted a retrospective medical record review of patients from 2 academic teaching hospitals for 3 months (September 1 through November 30, 2009). Patients were cla...

Immunosuppressant peptide immunocortin for the first time was described in 1993. It corresponds to residues 11-20 of human Ig heavy chain (conserved motif of VH domain). There are no data about production of immunocortin by proteolysis of Ig in vivo. Synthetic immunocortin in concentration ~ 10-9 M suppresses phagocytosis in peritoneal macrophages, ConA-dependent blast transformation of rat lym...

Toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 is essential for the defense against infection with gram-negative pathogens, but reduced TLR4 expression has not been linked to altered disease susceptibility in humans. In mice, Tlr4 controls the mucosal response to Escherichia coli urinary tract infections. Inactivation of mouse Tlr4 causes an asymptomatic carrier state resembling asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU). The...

abu'l faid thawban ibn ibrahim, known as dhu'l-nun al-misri, is one of the most prominent figures in the history of sufism.  he is certainly considered as one of the top ten sufi scholars throughout the history. recognition of his status and his unheard words, as an effective criterion of western islam-world, seems necessary to recognize islamic sufism, for most of resources appreciat...