Objective: To evaluate the value and compliance rate of voiding vesicoureteral urosonography in pediatric reflux (VUR).
 Methods: This is a retrospective study. A total 80 children with high-risk VUR admitted to Children’s Hospital affiliated Capital Medical University from December 2018 2020 were selected. All patients underwent (VUS) fluoroscopic cystourethrography (VCUG). The sensitivit...

Citrus processing waste (CPW) pretreated under different times, pH and temperatures was investigated. Pretreatments at 160 degrees C for longer than 4 min with steam purging were needed to remove limonene, an inhibitor for fermentation, to below 0.1%. While hemicelluloses were solubilized well following all pretreatments at 160 degrees C, just 70% of the pectin was solubilized in natural CPW co...

BACKGROUND Our objective was to assess time to achieve blood-pressure (BP) goal with incremental doses of valsartan alone, and together with hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ), in patients with uncomplicated hypertension. METHODS This analysis pooled patient-level data from nine randomized, double-blind, fixed-dose, placebo-controlled trials (N = 4278) of once-daily valsartan 80 mg, 160 mg, and 320 m...

Hair Paint is a modeling and animating tool for hair and furry objects. In this paper some improvements are done to Hair Paint to add some new features like adding hair gel to modify the physical behavior of hair or fur, addition of pony tails and hair growth direction to make more complex hair styles. We also implemented mechanisms that avoid the hairstyle mess up due to wind forces.

in multi-stage drying of various rough rice varieties, determination of the optimum drying and tempering conditions is important to accelerate the operation and reduce energy consumption, as well as produce a high quality product. in this research, two rice varieties namely, shafagh (long-grain) and sazandegi (medium-grain) were dried under high (air temperature and relative humidity of 60°c an...

In order to distinguish between the Ping-Pong and sequential mechanisms of cation transport in the cardiac Na(+)-Ca2+ exchange system, the initial rates of the Nai-dependent 45Ca uptake (t = 1 s) were measured in reconstituted proteoliposomes, loaded with a Ca chelator. Under "zero-trans" conditions ([Na]o = [Ca]i = 0) at a fixed [Na]i = 10-160 mM with varying [45Ca]o = 2.5-122 microM for each ...