Background: The main goal of this study is to determine the relationship between opium dependency and frequency of urolithiasis renal colics. Methods: In a cross sectional study we compared opium dependency in urolithiasis patients (case group) with non-urolithiasis patients (control group) and assessed urolithiasis related renal colics as risk factor to opium dependency prevalence. Dependency ...

Social media has become an inseparable part of Gen Z’s life. However, a number previous research documented contradictive findings regarding social use and its effect on psychological wellbeing among adolescents. This study aimed to investigate the role self-esteem, dependency, motives in well-being Z A total 647 students (aged 12 21 years, comprising 282 males 365 females) participated complet...

This paper presents the development of a Natural Language Interface (NLI) which is semantic-based and uses Conceptual Dependency representation. The system was developed using Lisp and currently runs on a Symbolics Lisp machine. A key point is that the parser handles morphological analysis, which expands its capabilities of understanding more words. t. L_," " ?,,1 _. ( \ I'; _ '(

This paper reported our work on annotating Chinese texts with information structures derived from HowNet. An information structure consists of two components: HowNet definitions and dependency relations. It is the unit of representation of the meaning of texts. This work is part of a multi-sentential approach to Chinese text understanding. An overview of HowNet and information structure are des...

conclusions atorvastatin may play a protective role in pulmonary fibrosis, with its effects mediated via the station’s antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. atorvastatin may be a potential agent for the treatment of lung injury and fibrosis. background pulmonary fibrosis is an idiopathic and chronic inflammatory interstitial lung disease, with a negligible response to available medical t...