BACKGROUND To investigate the effect of lisinopril on cardiac remodeling induced by smoking. MATERIAL/METHODS Rats were allocated into 3 groups: group CON (n=8): control; group CSE (n=8): cigarette smoke exposure; group CSE-LIS (n=8): exposed to tobacco smoke and treated with lisinopril. RESULTS After 2 months, the tail systolic pressure was lower in CSE-LIS (CON=116 +/-27 mm Hg, CSE=126+/-...

In this paper, we consider a wireless communication system where a large intelligent surface (LIS) is deployed comprising a number of small and distributed LIS-Units. Each LISUnit has a separate signal process unit (SPU) and is connected to a central process unit (CPU) that coordinates the behaviors of all the LIS-Units. With such a LIS system, we consider the user assignments both for sum-rate...

Ebrahim Aghazadeh-Asl, Ali Hossein Ghassemi, Zahed Bigdeli, Bahram Soosani-Gharibvand, Amal Saki-Malehi. Master of Med LIS, Dept. of Med LIS, School of Paramedicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran; Assistant Professor of Med LIS, Dept. of Med LIS, School of Paramedicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran (Corresponding Author); Professo...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the study was to present a protocol for laboratory information system (LIS) and hospital information system (HIS) validation at the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine of the Merkur University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Validity of data traceability was checked by entering all test requests for virtual patient into HIS/LIS and ...

In a previous study, we demonstrated that doxazosin (DZN), an alpha(1)-adrenergic blocker, prevented proteinuria in streptozotocin diabetic rats. In this study, we investigated whether DZN would lower established proteinuria by improving glomerular sclerosis in spontaneously hypertensive corpulent rats with type 2 diabetes mellitus. DZN treatment was compared with treatment with angiotensin-con...

Purpose – The paper utilizes Whitley’s (1984; 2000) theory of the intellectual and social organization of the sciences and builds on research carried on by (Aarek et. al, 1992; Vakkari, 1996; Rochester and Vakkari, 2004 and Åström, 2008), to analyze both intellectual and institutional characteristics of Arabic library and information science. Design/methodology/approach – Data derived from a co...

This paper analyses the relations between philosophy of information (PI), library and information science (LIS) and social epistemology (SE). In the first section, it is argued that there is a natural relation between philosophy and LIS but that SE cannot provide a satisfactory foundation for LIS. SE should rather be seen as sharing with LIS a common ground, represented by the study of informat...