OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of low-power light therapy on pain and disability in elderly patients with degenerative osteoarthritis of the knee. DESIGN Partially double-blinded, fully randomized trial comparing red, infrared, and placebo light emitters. PATIENTS Fifty patients with degenerative osteoarthritis of both knees were randomly assigned to three treatment groups: red (15 patie...

Triazole fungicides inhibit the biosynthesis of fungal ergosterol via inhibition of CYP450 dependent enzyme. The CYP450 enzymes are also found throughout the plant and animal kingdom and any interference in their synthesis will adversely affect important physiological functions in mammals. Hence, hexaconazole, a triazole fungicide, was studied for its effect on repductive performance in female ...

background: outbreak and spread of bacterial infections resulted in increasing use of antibiotics which subsequently leaded to bacterial resistance to conventional antibiotics. objectives: to evaluate the effects of organic acids (selko-ph®), probiotic (primalac®) and echinacea purpurea (ep) alcoholic extract on the immune system of the broiler chickens, a completely randomized design experimen...

The feasibility of the compartmentalized anaerobic migrating blanket reactor (AMBR) was studied for the treatment of low-strength soluble wastewater under low-temperature conditions. During an operating period of 186 days, a 20-L AMBR was fed nonfat dry milk substrate as a synthetic wastewater at low temperatures (15 and 20 degrees C). The concentration of the influent was constant at chemical ...

Background: Persistent methamphetamine (METH) psychosis is a psychotic state beyond 1-month after abstinence, for which there is no effective treatment. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in persistent METH psychosis patients hospitalized at Shahid Beheshti Hospital, Kerman, Iran, from 6 September 2012 until 6 September 2013, who were not remitted ...

Scene modeling has a key role in applications ranging from visual mapping to augmented reality. This paper presents an end-to-end solution for creating accurate three-dimensional (3D) textured models using monocular video sequences. The methods are developed within the framework of sequential structure from motion, in which a 3D model of the environment is maintained and updated as new visual i...