A shared counter is a concurrent object that provides a fetch and increment operation in a dis tributed system Recently di racting trees have been introduced as an e cient way of implement ing shared counters in heavily loaded systems Di racting trees dynamically distribute processors into small groups that can access a collection of disjoint local counters quickly in a globally co ordinated wa...

Many patients use household cleaners to clean denture which can cause discoloration and damage soft liners. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of household cleansers on the color change of two types of permanent soft liners. Methods: In this interventional study, 80 permanent silicone soft liners, including 40 heat-cured liners (Molloplast-B, Detax Gmbh & Co. ...

A prospective random double-blind controlled trial comparing the efficacy of cefaclor with that of co-trimoxazole in the treatment of otitis media was undertaken. Two hundred and twenty-three children aged 12 years or younger were studied. Both drugs were effective, with clinical cure or improvement in more than 90% of the children. The level of compliance was high and side effects few. Both co...

The introduction of high molecular weight poly(methyI methacrylate) or poly(butadiene-co-acrylonitrile) into ethyl 2-cyanoacrylate produced viscous adhesives with a homogeneous or heterogeneous structure after cure. Steel joints bonded with these adhesives are shown to have improved tensile shear strength, deformability and stress relaxation of bonds compared with pure cyanoacrylate adhesive. P...

BACKGROUND Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL; also known as kala-azar) is an ultimately fatal disease endemic in the Indian state of Bihar, while HIV/AIDS is an emerging disease in this region. A 2011 observational cohort study conducted in Bihar involving 55 VL/HIV co-infected patients treated with 20-25 mg/kg intravenous liposomal amphotericin B (AmBisome) estimated an 85.5% probability of survival ...

objective: tooth loss is a common problem and since current tooth replacement methods cannot counter balance with biological tooth structures, regenerating natural tooth structures has become an ideal goal. a challenging problem in tooth regeneration is to find a proper clinically feasible cell to seed.this study was designed to investigate the odontogenic potential of human bone marrow mesench...

During chronic viral infection, antigen-specific T cells are functionally exhausted, characterized by over expression of multiple co-inhibitory molecules. Recently advances in immune-oncology, experimental and early clinical virology studies have demonstrated sound rationale and early promise of breaking virus-mediated immune tolerance by using immune checkpoint blockage antibodies against CTLA...

background & aim: esophageal cancer is one of the main common causes of death. the high prevalence of esophageal cancer in northern iran is an important public health problem. the main aim of this paper was to assess the factors affecting survival of  atients with esophageal cancer in neighbor provinces around the caspian sea using weibull mixture cure model and mixture cure model based on a no...

introduction: in the present study, the effects of light cure on wound healing of mice’s skin with complete thickness were studied. materials and methods: forty male mice of nmri race were placed randomly into two groups of examination and control. under aseptic and unconscious conditions, a circular wound of 6 mm width with complete thickness of skin was made on the back of each mice. the surg...