Old women are expected to undergo pelvic organ prolapse (POP) surgery. Distress caused by POP affects women´s quality of life. Although polypropylene mesh (PM) is considered a good material restore the floor, there concerns about infection and vaginal exposure. This research studies optic properties inflammatory reaction tissue repair induced PM covered porcine collagen membrane (CM). Thirty fe...

OBJECTIVES The evaluation of allicin, the biologically active compound responsible for the antimicrobial activities of freshly crushed garlic cloves, in inhibiting Aspergillus spp. in vitro and in a murine model of disseminated aspergillosis. METHODS Pure allicin was prepared by reacting synthetic alliin with a stabilized preparation of the garlic enzyme alliinase. We tested the in vitro effi...

We introduce a tiling problem between bounded open convex polyforms P ^⊂ℝ 2 with colored directed edges. If there exists of the polyform ^ by 1 , we construct monomorphism from sandpile group G Γ =ℤ /Δ(ℤ ) on =P ∩ℤ to one . provide several examples infinite series such tilings converging ℝ and thus define limit plane.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To assess the resolution of pleural disease in patients with tuberculous pleurisy (TP) during and after antituberculosis medication. DESIGN An observational, prospective, longitudinal study. SETTING University-affiliated general hospital in Seoul, Korea. PATIENTS AND METHODS Chest radiographs of 85 adult TP patients were followed up prospectively from diagnosis to 24 mont...

The increasing volume and complexity of waste associated with the modern economy poses a serious risk to ecosystems and human health. However, the remanufacturing and recycling of waste into usable products can lead to substantial resource savings. In the present study, clam shell waste was first transformed into pure and well-crystallized single-phase white light-emitting phosphor Ca₉Gd(PO₄)₇:...

Problem statement: Forest fires are especially frequent around the Mediterranean Sea basin in the summer period and might be able to release naturally-occurring and man-made radionuclides from plant biomass and inject them into the atmosphere. The impact of this radioactivity on populations was not investigated before. Approach: Radionuclide analysis was performed in plants, in smoke from plant...