The immunomodulatory effects of parathyroid hormone (PTH) in patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) is controversial. This study was carried out to investigate the effect of PTH levels on the circulating CD4+, CD8+ T cell counts (%) in patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) on regular hemodialysis ((HD). The study included 22 patients with serum levels of PTH < 300 pg/ml (group 1), 18 ...

The standard inverse scaling and squaring algorithm for computing the matrix logarithm begins by transforming the matrix to Schur triangular form in order to facilitate subsequent matrix square root and Padé approximation computations. A transformation-free form of this method that exploits incomplete Denman–Beavers square root iterations and aims for a specified accuracy (ignoring roundoff) is...

The effect of parathyroid hormone (PTH) in vivo after secretion by the parathyroid gland is mediated by bioactive fragments of the molecule. To elucidate their possible role in the regulation of cartilage matrix metabolism, the influence of the amino-terminal (NH2-terminal), the central, and the carboxyl-terminal (COOH-terminal) portion of the PTH on collagen gene expression was studied in a se...

A matrix has an ordinary inverse only if it is square, and even then only if it is nonsingular or, inother words, if its columns (or rows) are linearly independent. In recent years needs have been felt innumerous areas of applied mathematics for some kind of partial inverse of a matrix that is singularor even rectangular. In this paper, some results on the Quasi-commuting inverses, are given an...

The present research work describes an efficient method for facile synthesis of α-MnO2 nanorods by hydrothermal method and preparation of a series of polythiophene/manganese dioxide (PTh/MnO2) nanocomposites with various α-MnO2 ratios. These nanocomposites were fabricated by in-situ oxidative polymerization method using FeCl3 as oxidant, and characterized by Fourier transformed infrared (FT-IR)...

The effects of parathyroid hormone/parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTH/PTHrP) on late events in chondrocyte differentiation were investigated by a dual in vitro model where conditions of suspension versus adhesion culturing are permissive either for apoptosis or for the further differentiation of hypertrophic chondrocytes to osteoblast- like cells. Chick embryo hypertrophic chondrocytes ma...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether osteocytic connexin 43 (Cx43) is required for the bone response to intermittent PTH administration, and whether the connexin is involved in maintaining the bone matrix. METHODS Human PTH(1-34) was injected to adult male mice expressing (Cx43(fl/fl)) or not osteocytic Cx43 (Cx43(fl/fl);DMP1-8kb-Cre) daily (100 µg/kg/d) for 14 days. RESULTS Cx43(fl/fl);DMP1-8k...

The inverse kinematics of serial manipulators is a central problem in the automatic control of robot manipulators The main interest has been in inverse kinematics of a six revolute jointed manipulator with arbitrary geometry It has been recently shown that the joints of a general R manipulator can orient themselves in di erent con gurations at most for a given pose of the end e ector However th...

In this paper, we study decoherence in Grover’s quantum search algorithm using a perturbative method. We assume that each two-state system (qubit) that belongs to a register suffers a phase flip error (σz error) with probability p independently at every step in the algorithm, where 0 ≤ p ≤ 1. Considering an n-qubit density operator to which Grover’s iterative operation is applied M times, we ex...