Acknowledgements None of this work would have been possible without the selfless assistance of a great number of people. I would like to express my most sincere gratitude to my advisor, Dr. Ross Baldick for his guidance, encouragement, support and great ideas throughout the whole process of my research. He is a wonderful mentor, and his commitment to teaching and dedication to his students was ...

Rosa damascena mill L., known as Gole Mohammadi in is one of the most important species of Rosaceae family flowers. R. damascena is an ornamental plant and beside perfuming effect, several pharmacological properties including anti-HIV, antibacterial, antioxidant, antitussive, hypnotic, antidiabetic, and relaxant effect on tracheal chains have been reported for this plant. This article is a comp...

The subject considered in the paper is a part of work in which the main gole is creation of the tool for evaluation of patient hip joint internal loadings especially before and after arthroplasty. Internal loadings evaluation in human motion structures is still a present task in biomechanics and biomechanical engineering. The forces of muscle actuators were considered before in the aspect of co...

I argue that increased foreign competition can affect technical choice and skill differentials even when actual imports do not rise significantly. I present a model of General Oligopolistic Equilibrium ("GOLE") in which a reduction in import barriers (whether technological or policy-imposed) encourages more strategic investment by incumbent firms. The predictions accord with many of the stylise...

This study presents the outcome of osteoporosis treatment in a 29-year-old male patient with full-blown Touraine-Solente-Gole syndrome. His first DXA densitometry of the proximal femur demonstrated severe osteoporosis (BMD 0.628 g/cm(2); T-score -3.84 SD, Z-score -3.37 SD). Bisphosphonate treatment (alendronate 70 mg once weekly) produced considerable clinical improvement during a 36-month foll...

The Office of Graduate Studies has verified and approved the above named committee members. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Here, I would like to express my gratitude to all the people supporting me during the whole process to finish my thesis. It was possible to finish this research because of help and guidance of various people. First, I express my very sincere thanks to my former advisor, Dr. Kartik Pa...