Human population are striving against energy-related issues that not only affects society and the development of world, but also causes global warming. A variety broad approaches have been developed by both industry research community. However, there is an ever increasing need for comprehensive, end-to-end solutions aimed at transforming human behavior rather than device metrics benchmarks. In ...

BACKGROUND Allograft tissue remains a valuable alternative for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. No study to date has correlated the effect of donor age to bone mineral density (BMD) in a large series of irradiated bone-patellar tendon-bone (BPTB) allograft tissue. Hypothesis/ PURPOSE The authors attempted to correlate donor age with BMD in a large group of BPTB allograft specimens t...

Urinary stone disease is a very common disease whose prevalence is still increasing. Stone formation is frequently associated with other diseases of affluence such as hypertension, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, and insulin resistance. The increasing concentration of lithogenic solutes along the different segments of the nephron involves supersaturation conditions lea...