BACKGROUND Human parathyroid hormone (PTH) (1-34) or teriparatide (TPTD) is an anabolic agent for osteoporosis. This recombinant protein stimulates positive bone formation balance and bone remodeling. However, when concomitantly used with antiresorptive (AR) agents, previous studies reported conflicting results in their potential additive and synergistic effects on bone metabolism and bone mine...

An "additive" fluent is a fluent with numerical values such that the effect of several concurrently executed actions on it can be computed by adding the effects of the individual actions. We show how queries about additive fluents can be answered using the Causal Calculator. The examples discussed in this paper involve buying and selling, applying forces and moving groups of objects. The additi...

An additive fluent is a fluent with numerical values such that the effect of several concurrently executed actions on it can be computed by adding the effects of the individual actions. We propose a method for describing effects of actions on additive fluents in the declarative language C+. An implementation of this language, called the Causal Calculator, can be used for the automation of examp...

Bovine mastitis is an important commercial and sanitary cost in milk production. The prevention treatment of this disease essentially based on the use antibiotics that have limited effectiveness can negatively affect quality. aim study was to evaluate alternative a symbiotic control subclinical (SCM), improvement quality produced dairy farm north-central Algeria. 68 cows collected analysed by s...