Drug Design and Bioinformatics Unit, Medical Biotechnology Department, Biotechnology Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran, 69 Pasteur St, PO Box 13164, Tehran, Iran Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Jalal Ale Ahmad Highway, PO Box 14115-134, Tehran, Iran Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran, North Kar...

In simulation software selection problems, packages are evaluated either on their own merits or in comparison with other packages. In either method, a list of criteria for evaluation of simulation software is essential for proper selection. Although various simulation software evaluation checklists do exist, there are differences in the lists provided and the terminologies used. This paper pres...

This retracts article Emphysematous cystitis and emphysematous pyelitis: a clinically misleading association. Mustapha Ahsaini, Amadou Kassogue, Mohammed Fadl Tazi, Anas Zaougui, Jalal Edine Elammari, Abdelhak Khallouk, Mohammed Jamal El Fassi, My Hassan Farih. The Pan African Medical Journal. 2013;16:18. (doi:10.11604/pamj.2013.16.18.2505). Pan African Medical Journal. 2015; 21:288 doi:10.1160...

Hypertension is a multifactorial disease in which both genetic and environmental factors play a role in the slope of changing BP with increasing age.1 Most health care providers and patients alike are aware of the relationship between increasing dietary salt and BP. There is also evidence this relationship may be modified by increasing dietary potassium consumption.2,3 Moreover, more recent dat...

Dennis Holstein (US), Virgil Hammond (US), Joe Weiss (US), Ajay Mishra (US), Andrew Ginter (US), Robert Abercrombie (US), Charles Newton (US), Dave Deibert (US), David Johnson (US), Ed Crawford (US), Eric Cosman (US), Eric Persson (US), Frank Greitzer (US), Hal Thomas (US), Ibrahim Hamad (UK), Jalal Bouhdada (NL), Joel Langill (US), John Day (US), Michael Medoff (US), Pete MacLeod (CA), Ray Lan...

Muhammad Siddique Awan, Fatima Jalal, Najma Ayub, Muhammad Waheed Akhtar and Muhammad Ibrahim Rajoka* Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, PK-54078 Islamabad, Pakistan Industrial Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, P.O. Box 577, Jhang Road, PK-38000 Faisalabad, Pakistan School of Biological Science...

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Acknowledgements: Portions of this paper were developed in Eric Barrette’s dissertation and funded by AHRQ R36 dissertation grant #HS18272-01. We are grateful for insightful and constructive comments from Roger Feldman, Stephen Parente, Alok Gupta, Shane Greenstein, Ira Moscovice and participants at the 22 nd Annual Health Economics Conference and 2 nd Annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics...

Biodegradation of the Hexahydro-l,3,5-Trinitro-l,3,5-Triazine Ring Cleavage Product 4-Nitro-2,4-Diazabutanal by Phanerochaete chrysosporium Diane Fournier, Annamaria Halasz, Jim Spain, Ronald J. Spanggord, Jeffrey C. Bottaro, and Jalal Hawari* Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Montreal, Quebec H4P 2R2, Canada; U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Tyndall Air ...