H. Imaoka*, G.M. Gauvreau*, R.M. Watson*, S.G. Smith*, B. Dua*, A.J. Baatjes*, K. Howie*, T. Hoshino, K.J. Killian*, H. Aizawa{ and P.M. O’Byrne* *Dept of Medicine, Michael G. DeGroot School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, and Division of Respirology, Neurology and Rheumatology, Dept of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, J...

hydrocephalus is a common finding in patient with extensive intracranial pathology. this finding may have obvious cause or even happened by a subtle abnormality. some of the normal looking ventricles are really hydrocephalus when compare with previous images and some are due to nph. communicating and non-communicating hydrocephalus should be separated to divided pathologic causes. this session ...

neovascularization of the normally avascular cornea was associated with a notable increase in the expression of the major pro-angiogenic factors, inflammatory cytokines and proteases. the data supporting a causal role for vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf), inflammatory cytokines and matrix metalloproteinase (mmps) are extensive. anti-angiogenic/anti-inflammatory therapy is considered as...

one of the main objectives of development policies in different countries is food security. extensive researches around the world specially during last decades show the role of nutrition in health, food security, increase of efficiency and economic development. considering that a healthy diet and having access to sufficient and healthy foods are the basic human rights, governments are obliged t...

Considered were four dairy farms. Two were certified organic farms and two were conventional – one with intensive and one with extensive production system. Observations were conducted on 10 Holstein-Friesian (HF) cows from each farm while from conventional farm with extensive production additional 10 Polish Red (PR) cows were observed. Samples of milk and hair for determination of minerals were...

Nowadays, there is a great deal of attention for regulations of carbon emissions to enforce the decision-makers of production and distribution networks to redesign their systems satisfactorily. The literature has seen a rapid interest in developing novel metaheuristics to solve this problem as a complicated optimization problem. Such difficulties motivate us to address a production-distribution...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of curative and palliative radiotherapy in the treatment of extensive stage small cell lung cancer (E-SCLC), and compare therapy effect on survival with or without metastatic disease. METHODS From January 1998 through December 2004, 128 patients with E-SCLC were treated with radiotherapy and concomitants combined chemotherapy. Radical radiotherapy, consistin...

Food security and economic welfare strongly depend on agricultural production, the loss of this production can be a serious challenge for food security and economic welfare. Agricultural production is also influenced by environmental and climatic factors so that the variations of climatic parameters can trigger extensive fluctuations in agricultural production. This study classifies climate cha...

riverbank erosion, land loss and associated sedimentation are river engineering and water resources management problems of global significance. the ability to predict riverbank stability on eroding rivers is the prerequisite of developing a channel width adjustment model and is essential for estimating riverbank erosion and associated sedimentation. in this research, a detailed model for stabil...