Introduction: Ghrelin increases growth hormone secretion and food intake. Growth hormone (GH), steroid hormones and opioids are involved in the regulation of food intake. So, they may have a role in the regulation of ghrelin secretion. We determined the effect of intravenous injections of progesterone, GH and morphine or co-administration of these hormones on ghrelin concentration and body w...

This article proposes a local search metaheuristic solution approach for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Simultaneous Pick-ups and Deliveries (VRPSPD), which models numerous practical transportation operations in the context of reverse logistics. The proposed algorithm is capable of exploring wide solution neighborhoods by statically encoding moves into special data structures. To avoid cyclin...

This investigation's objective was to identify risk factors for hepatitis C virus (HCV) in a village in Upper Egypt with a moderately high prevalence (8.7%) of antibodies to HCV (anti-HCV). A representative sample of 6,012 (63%) of the 9,581 village inhabitants was included in the study. A questionnaire solicited information regarding risk factors for infection, and blood samples were tested fo...

the problem of designing a set of routes with minimum cost to serve a collection of customers with a fleet of vehicles is a fundamental challenge when the number of customers to be dropped or picked up is not known during the planning horizon. the purpose of this paper is to develop a vehicle routing problem (vrp) model that addresses stochastic simultaneous pickup and delivery in the urban pub...

In this article, a new identification tool for dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) is proposed to achieve flexible active and reactive power dispatches during sags. The presented entirely relies on the theoretical analysis of elliptical transformation, marks are determined different injections by using one set digital codes. Besides, two parameters in accurate mathematical description current refere...

This study was design to evaluate the efficacy of cataract surgery with simultaneous intravitreal bevacizumab injection for wet age-related macular degeneration. Of patients who underwent anti-vascular endothelial growth factor injections, performed in 24 eyes (control group), and 27 (bevacizumab group). Best corrected visual acuity, ocular tonometry, anterior chamber inflammation, central subf...

Goldfish (Carassius auratus, var. japonicus, subvar. bicaudatus) respond to the administration of thyrotrophic hormone with exophthalmos. Eye protrusion increases with simultaneous injections of corticotrophin. Retrobulbar injections of normal saline, human serum or pituitary hormones produce a transient exophthalmos, which is much more persistent when thyrotrophin is injected. Previous treatme...