BACKGROUND Since only a portion of anemic patients outside the uremia setting benefit from erythropoietin treatment, a reliable means of predicting potential responders and nonresponders would be very useful. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the clinical records of 58 patients with refractory anemia associated with various malignant disorders who had been treated with subcuta...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful All praise and glory to Almighty Allah (Subhanahu Wa Taalaa) who gave me courage and patience to carry out this work. Peace and blessing of Allah be upon last Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him). Acknowledgment is due to King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals for supporting this research. My unrestrained appreciation goe...

BACKGROUND Current guidelines for anticoagulation during left-sided procedures recommend the administration of unfractionated heparin (UFH) with an initial bolus of 50-100 U/kg, followed by continuous infusion to maintain an activated clotting time (ACT) ≥ 300 s. Our objective was to compare the effectiveness of this standard regimen (100 U/kg bolus) to a more aggressive approach (200 U/kg bolu...

To investigate the effects of arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) and phosphorus (P) rates on the uptake of primary and secondary nutrients by tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Milli) cv. BARI Tomato-2 seedlings, under P levels ranging from low to excessive, plants were grown in five levels of P (0, 7.5, 15.0, 22.5 and 30.0 mg P kg-1 soil) as TSP, either inoculated with AM or without AM. The total dry mat...

Concomitant morphological and molecular analyses have led to major breakthroughs in the taxonomic organization of the phylum Glomeromycota. Fungi in this phylum are known to form arbuscular mycorrhiza, and so far three classes, five orders, 14 families and 29 genera have been described. Sensulato, spore formation in 10 of the arbuscular mycorrhiza-forming genera is exclusively glomoid, one is g...

BACKGROUND: Nutrient management is one of the most important factors that affect the growth and production of maize. OBJECTIVES: Current research was conducted to investigate the effect of Mycorrhizas and vermicompost on seed yield, its components and quantities traits such as concentration of protein, starch, zinc, potassium and nitrogen of corn seed.<br...

and Applied Analysis 3 Proof. SettingK 1 = u−∂ 2 xx u andK = (m−∂2 xx ) −1 u and using the first equation of the problem (5), we obtain u = my − y xx and