Patellofemoral (PF) osteoarthritis (OA) is a somewhat predominant illness, affecting up to 24% of women and 11% ofmen over the age of 55 years who suffer from symptomatic knee OA. The purposes of this narrative overview are tosummarize the present situation of patellofemoral arthroplasty (PFA) in the treatment of solitary PF-OA, and to givean account of the clinical results of...

In Prison and Plantation, Michael Hindus, a historian turned lawyer, has attempted to explain the nature of crime, criminal justice, and punishment in nineteenth century America by comparing evidence gathered from Massachusetts and South Carolina. He uses such diverse sources as manuscript court records, state reports, legislative debates, memoirs, letters, and pamphlets to study prison reform,...

In recent years several fixed point theorems for hybrid pairs of mappings are proved and by now there exists considerable literature in this direction. To mention a few, one can cite Imdad and Ahmad [10], Pathak [19], Popa [20] and references cited therein. On the other hand Assad and Kirk [4] gave a sufficient condition enunciating fixed point of set-valued mappings enjoying specific boundary ...

Human malaria is among the most ubiquitous and destructive tropical, parasitic diseases in the world today. The causative agent, Plasmodium falciparum, contains an unusual, essential organelle known as the apicoplast. Inhibition of this degenerate chloroplast results in second generation death of the parasite and is the mechanism by which antibiotics function in treating malaria. In order to be...

RECENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR PREGNANCY DIAGNOSIS IN SHEEP AND GOAT: AN OVERVIEW Shabir Ahmad Lone 1* , Shailesh Kumar Gupta 2 , Narendra Kumar 2 , Kuladip Prakash Shinde 2 , Bilal Ahmad Ganaie 1 , Haneef Ahmad Rather 1 and Sunil Kumar 3 1 PhD Scholar, Animal Reproduction Gynaecology and obstetrics, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal-132001, Haryana, INDIA 2 PhD Scholar, Livestock product...

In this paper, the genus Grypocephalus Hsiao, 1963 is taxonomically reviewed worldwide. Bloeteocoris Ahmad, 1965 is proposed as a new junior synonym for Grypocephalus Hsiao, 1963. All the species of Bloeteocoris Ahmad, 1965 are herein transferred to Grypocephalus Hsiao, 1963, in which, Bloeteocoris minutus Ahmad, 1965 is synonymized with Grypocephalus pallipectus Hsiao, 1963. Planusocoris schae...

U P UNTIL NOW, CINEMATIC PRISON METAPHORS HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED by both metaphor and film studies. By focusing on these ignored types of metaphor, this article fills a crucial gap in the critical understanding of metaphor. The first part of this article develops a taxonomy of prison and film metaphors. The first taxonomy (of prison metaphors) is based on the categories developed by Monika Fludern...