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Background: Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is an immune system disorder characterized by uncontrolled hyper-inflammation owing to hypercytokinemia from the activated but ineffective cytotoxic cells. Establishing a correct diagnosis for HLH patients due to the similarity of this disease with other conditions like malignant lymphoma and leukemia and similarity among its two forms is dif...

patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, we evaluated all patients referred to a single rheumatology clinic for bone mineral density measurements from 2009 to 2010. all patients who had bone mineral density measurements taken from the hip, lumbar spine, forearm, and whole body were enrolled in the study. standard bone mineral density measurements were performed using a dual energy x-...

a pedigree file of 382831 holstein cows and bulls, collected from herds registered by animal breeding center of iran during 1967 to 1999, was used to calculate the inbreeding coefficient. the mean inbreeding coefficient for the whole population (male and female), on a base year of 1946, was 0.184%. the means for cows (94 percent of the whole population) and bulls (6 percent of the whole populat...

Call graph construction for object-oriented programs is often difficult and expensive. Most sound and precise algorithms analyze the whole program including all library dependencies. The separate compilation assumption makes it possible to generate sound and reasonably precise call graphs without analyzing libraries. We investigate whether the separate compilation assumption can be encoded univ...