c-reactive protein (crp) is an acute-phase protein synthesized predominantly by the hepatocytes in response to tissue damage or inflammation. levels of acute-phase proteins rise rapidly, during infection and after injury. we take up the study to correlate serum crp levels with other important predictive markers of outcome in copd. patient with stable copd (no exacerbation in the last two months...

coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death and disability in adults. the association between acute coronary syndrom (acs) and elevated serum high sensitivity c-reactive protein (hscrp) suggests that chronic inflammation of the coronary arterial wall may play an important role. a number of drugs used in the treatment of cardiovascular disease reduce serum crp. it* is therefore possible...

Background and aim: Lichen planus (LP) is an inflammatory papulosquamous disease that affects skin, mucous membranes, nails and hair. As the disease presents in various clinical types, the objective of this study was to determine the frequency of clinical variants of LP in dermatological out-patients in Kerman. Materials and methods: In this study 300 patients with LP were evaluated during 1382...

This paper describes a process for the semi-automatic conversion of numerical and scientific routines written in the C programming language into Triana-based computational services that can be used within a distributed serviceoriented architecture such as that being adopted for Grid computing. This process involves two separate but related tools, JACAW and MEDLI. JACAW is a wrapper tool based o...

The C standard does not specify the memory layouts of types, opening the door for portability problems that arise from discrepancies in how various platforms choose to represent types in memory. I report on the design and implementation of a framework that provides automated help for finding and understanding these discrepancies. A dynamic analysis gathers memory layout constraints on types. An...