A number of health benefits have been claimed for probiotic bacteria such as Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifidobacterium spp., and L. casei. These benefits include antimutagenic effects, anticarcinogenic properties, improvement in lactose metabolism, reduction in serum cholesterol, and immune system stimulation. Because of the potential health benefits, these organisms are increasingly being inc...

leiomyoma of the esophagus is rare, but it is the commonest among the benigh tumors of the esophagus. among 95 cases of esophageal tumors, there was just 4 cases of leiomyoma (3 were females and 1 was male) and this is contrary to the reports already published. main symptoms of esophageal leiomyoma include: disphagia, pain and hematemesis from the above mentioned cases 1 tumor was in the thorac...

Activity-based costing has been identified as an effective system that helps the companies in manufacturing and service industry to reduce their cost. Due high reliability accuracy of activity-based costing, without a doubt, had used implemented widely by replace traditional costing. This is because considered many researchers it no more reliable act this constantly changing market conditions, ...

Cell replacement therapy in Parkinson's disease (PD) aims at re-establishing dopamine neurotransmission in the striatum by grafting dopamine-releasing cells. Chromaffin cell (CC) grafts produce some transitory improvements of functional motor deficits in PD animal models, and have the advantage of allowing autologous transplantation. However, CC grafts have exhibited low survival, poor function...

This paper proposes a holistic teleology-based modeling framework for product-related processes named FOREST. Several processes such as functioning processes, fault-related processes and manufacturing processes can be represented as goal-oriented process trees in the three-dimensional space as an extension of an ontology-based functional modeling framework. One of the expected benefits is to he...

Al-Quds has always enjoyed a special standing worldwide for either its historic and civilized position, or geographically strategic location in the center of Arab region Old-World continents. Due to importance, issues were paid attention on global arena by major countries international institutes, particularly United Nations institutes. This study addresses five main claims: 1) most prominent U...

To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of Community Health Survey (CHS), we analyzed data from 11,217 participants aged ≥ 19 yr, in 13 cities and counties in 2008. Three healthcare utilization indices (admission, outpatient visits, dental visits) as comparative variables and the insurance benefit claim data of the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service as the gold-standard were used....

Most human-machine communication for information access through speech, text and graphical interfaces are mediated by forms – i.e. lists of named fields. However, deploying form-filling dialogue systems still remains a challenging task due to the effort and skill required to author such systems. We describe an extension to the OpenDial framework that enables the rapid creation of functional dia...

A study of properties of a rewrite system for solving constraint sets that are instances of the unification with expansion variables problem. The terms in the constraints are built from the intersection type constructors plus type variables and applied expansion variables. We show that: • Constraint set rewriting is confluent (modulo isomorphism). • There is a set of well-named constraint sets ...