Manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 Oscillatory techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 Sustained traction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 Sinuvertebral nerve block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 Bed rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 Surgery: removal of protruded discs . . . . . . . . 399 Prevention of recurrence . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Human cytochromes P450 (P450s) play a major role in the biotransformation of drugs. The generated metabolites are important for pharmaceutical, medical, and biotechnological applications and can be used for derivatization or toxicological studies. The availability of human drug metabolites is restricted and alternative ways of production are requested. For this, microbial P450s turned out to be...

background: onchocerciasis is endemic in the imo river basin, nigeria. this study was aimed at assess­ing the prevalence and intensity of microfilaria of onchocerca volvulus in the area. methods: a cross-sectional study was carried out in the okigwe local government area, imo state, nige­ria. two skin snips (one from the waist and another from the shoulder) were taken from 1024 individu­als exa...

Background: Diagnosis of the early phase of mycosis fungoides (MF) is sometimes difficult. Loss of CD7 expression is considered a distinguishing characteristic of MF. The aim of this study was to determine the range of CD7 expression in MF and compare the results with benign inflammatory dermatosis and equivocal cases of possible MF. Methods: During a period of 30 months, we examined 15 patient...

The magnetic field (MF) is considered as a biophysical treatment to change the growth and development parameters. Current research was carried out to evaluate the effect of different intensities of MF (0, 45, 60, 70 and 75 mT) on seed germination and some morphologic and physiologic parameters of Rudbeckia hirta L. in dry and humid conditions for 30 min. Results showed that the MF trea...

1 Notation and Definitions 2 2 MF Models 2 3 Latent Factors 3 3.1 L2 regularization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2 Baseline Predictors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 SVD++ [4] 6 5 Joint Factorization (JF) Models 7 5.1 Brian’s Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5.2 Eliminating...

Although beef demand improved modestly in 1999, 20 years of declining demand has plagued the beef industry. Inflation-adjusted retail beef prices were collapsing at the same time per capita consumption was declining. The result, beef demand declined precipitously from 1980 through the late 1990s. For example, Purcell’s beef demand index indicates 1998 Choice retail beef prices were 50 percent l...