BACKGROUND Diminished myocardial vasodilatation (MVD) in hypercholesterolemics without overt coronary stenosis has been reported. However, whether the diminished MVD of angiographically normal coronary arteries in hypercholesterolemics can be reversed after lipid-lowering therapy is not known. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 27 hypercholesterolemics and 16 age-matched controls were studied. Al...

Health insecurity has emerged as a major concern among health policy-makers particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It includes the inability to secure adequate healthcare today and the risk of being unable to do so in the future as well as impoverishing healthcare expenditure. The increasing health insecurity among 150 million of the world's poor has moved social protection i...

A module $M$ is said to be coretractable if there exists a nonzero homomorphism of every nonzero factor of $M$ into $M$. We prove that all right (left) modules over a ring are coretractable if and only if the ring is Morita equivalent to a finite product of local right and left perfect rings.

 For a Banach algebra $fA$, we introduce ~$c.c(fA)$, the set of all $phiin fA^*$ such that $theta_phi:fAto  fA^*$ is a completely continuous operator, where $theta_phi$ is defined by $theta_phi(a)=acdotphi$~~ for all $ain fA$. We call $fA$, a completely continuous Banach algebra if $c.c(fA)=fA^*$. We give some examples of completely continuous Banach algebras and a sufficient condition for an o...

In this retrospective study, 44 patients received screw-retained full-arch acrylic resin provisional prostheses connected on 4 or 6 implants in the mandible or maxilla, respectively. With a mean follow-up of 17.6 months, 3 of 205 implants were lost and replaced successfully. Cosmetic fractures were shown in six patients; one abutment loosening, one abutment fracture, and one implant fracture we...

PURPOSE This article reports the preliminary data from a clinical study of immediately loaded, full-arch, screw-retained prosthesis with distal extensions (hybrid prosthesis) supported by Osseotite implants placed in the edentulous mandible. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifteen patients who received 103 implants were enrolled in this study. The first 2 patients received both immediately loaded and s...

this study was carried out to determine the effect of seed growing regions and loading speed on some mechanical properties of castor seed. these properties are used to design and improve related machines such as expeller that are used for extraction of oil from castor seed. mechanical properties of castor seed were expressed in terms of rupture force and energy, bio-yield force, apparent modulu...

Deutsche Version unter: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1055/s-0042-108897 1. We welcome the fact that the Board of the D.I.R rated 4 of the 5 criticisms as “not altogether wrong” and repeatedly indicated that our criticism was justified (“Kadi and Wiesing pointed out [...] rightly...”). That the Board has again stated that the approach of the D.I.R is “considered exemplary, also by international standar...

Neurological reports of "tactile blindsight" suggest that the human somatosensory system can extract behaviorally useful information about the location of a tactile stimulus in the absence of conscious awareness that the stimulus occurred (Paillard et al., 1983; Rossetti et al., 1995). However, in a series of psychophysical experiments with neurologically intact subjects, we found no evidence f...