Background: Forward head posture is one of the most prevalent abnormal postures in patients with neck disorders. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of forward head posture on gait ground reaction force characteristics in children. Methods: Twelve children with forward head posture (age: 11.8±1.3 years) and sixteen healthy control children (...

Clarithromycin (CLA), a broad-spectrum macrolide, is a poorly soluble drug with dissolution rate limited absorption. The aim of this investigation was to prepare CLA nanoparticles from a ternary ground mixture in the presence of sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) and polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) as co-grinding water-soluble compounds, in order to improve the drug dissolution rate. Different weight rati...

They are not capable to ground a canonicity of universal consistency. Abstract We explore how different proof orderings induce different notions of saturation. We relate completion, paramodulation, saturation, redundancy elimination, and rewrite system reduction to proof orderings.

The fundamental message of Garrett Hardin's essay 'The Tragedy of the Commons' [1], recently re-visited in these pages by Peter Kareiva [2], is unassailable. If resources are available to all without restraint, they will be over-exploited. That is a simple tenet of population biology, encapsulated in theories of competitive interaction between individuals, and is an explanation for the well-kno...

This article explores the importance of the relationship between a teacher of meditation and his or her student. Mindfulness meditation is receiving a lot of attention in the psychotherapy literature currently. It is generally viewed as a technique that is taught in groups and then practiced individually by clients or participants. What does not appear to be generally understood is that the tea...

The concept of ground truth is a well-established principle in cartography, where data collected at a distance are confirmed by measurements made on location. Those local measurements are used to calibrate remote sensing devices, verify or correct experimental inferences, and update geographic databases. Ground truth observations also provide a means of training and supervising image classifica...

During an earthquake, significant damage can result due to instability of the soil in the area affected by internal seismic waves. A liquefaction-induced lateral ground displacement has been a very damaging type of ground failure during past strong earthquakes. In this study, neuro-fuzzy group method of data handling (NF-GMDH) is utilized for assessment of lateral displacement in both ground sl...