BACKGROUND The present study evaluated the efficacy of a combination of ibandronate and cholecalciferol on the restoration of the levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) and various bone markers in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. METHODS This was a randomized, double-blind, active-controlled, prospective 16-week clinical trial conducted in 20 different hospitals. A total of 201 postme...

Journal of Medical Sciences 2011;14(2):68-70 expression for CD99 (MIC2), with characteristic membranous pattern and an IMPRESSION drawn was Conformation of diagnosis of EWINGS SARCOMA. Bone Scan was also advised which revealed Reduced uptake over the body of left mandible without rim of enhanced uptake. No evidence of distal bone involvement. A surgical procedure was performed to resect the mal...

bark". Dietrich provides eleven notes to Ibn al-Baitar's commentary and, as he does in all entries, attempts to identify the plant in modern nomenclature. In this instance, however, Dietrich says, "The plant's identification is very doubtful, perhaps impossible to know". And, he references his discussion of the plant in his Dioscurides triumphans. The reverse happens as well. As an illustration...

We introduce and study the partial singular braid monoid PSBn, a monoid that contains both the inverse braid monoid IBn and the singular braid monoid SBn. Our main results include a characterization of Green’s relations, a presentation in terms of generators and relations, and a proof that PSBn embeds in the semigroup algebra C[IBn].

This section 9.3 of Ibn Sı̄nā’s Qiyās is a commentary on sections 25 and 26 of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics i, pages 41b36–43a19. NB the parallel passage in Ibn Sı̄nā’s Burhān iii.2, p. 136ff (Badawi). The paper below is what Wikipedia would call a stub. I will add and correct as time allows. I make the paper available now because it contains a complete translation of Qiyās section 9.3, which is a...

In the last half century Ibrahim Madkour revolutionised the study of Arabic logic by making available a modern edition of the text of the Logic section of Ibn Sı̄nā’s Šifā’. Ibn Sı̄nā’s account of logic in the Šifā’ is much fuller than any of his other surviving accounts; it runs to some two thousand pages. It is also — in my view — more radical and more independent of Aristotle than his other ac...

95 THE CANADIAN HIGHWAY NETwork consists mainly of two-lane highways where passing slower cars requires traveling in the lane assigned to the opposite traffic. Therefore, studying the mechanism of the passing maneuver is important for maintaining traffic safety, as well enhancing the highway’s level of service. Models for passing maneuvers are available in the design guides1,2 while different v...

Testing the semantic control hypothesis for stroke aphasics with semantic deficits by Azli Hassan Some studies of stroke patients with semantic deficits have found no effect of word frequency on semantic tasks, as well as inconsistent performance across items and tasks. A deficit in semantic control has been suggested as the source of the deficit i.e., an inability to focus on semantic features...

ver the past two decades. the growing demand for reliability in indust r i a l p r o c e s s e s h a s d r a w n increasing attention to the problem of fault detection and isolation (FDI), but only a lew studies have b e e n d e d i c a t e d t o t h e r e l a t e d fault-tolerant control (FTC) problem. A fault (abrupt or incipient) is any kind of malfunction or degradation in the plant that ca...