Ubiquitous decision support systems have remained an imaginary and almost useless system for decades since its first introduction in early 1990’s. However, it came out of lab into real world as ubiquitous computing became tangible in the form of mobile devices, pervasive mechanisms, and various mobile Internet technologies. Typically, context-aware systems had received acclaims from both resear...

BACKGROUND Obesity is associated with glomerular hyperfiltration, increased proximal tubular sodium reabsorption, glomerular enlargement and renal hypertrophy. A single experimental study reported an increased glomerular urinary space in obese dogs. Whether proximal tubular volume is increased in obese subjects and whether their glomerular and tubular urinary spaces are enlarged is unknown. O...

The continued growth and evolving lifestyles of the human population require urgent development sustainable production in all its aspects. Microalgae have potential various commodities; however, energetic requirements algae cultivation still largely contribute to overall negative balance many operation plants. Here, we evaluate efficiency biomass lipids by Chlorella pyrenoidosa multi-tubular, h...

In this study, the effect of repair on fatigue life of tubular joints is investigated. Six cracked specimens precedently subjected to fatigue loading undergone to weld repair. Two of those specimens were shot peened before primary fatigue loading.  It is shown that repair gives rise to about 150% increase in fatigue life for original specimens while the increase of fatigue life for shot-peened ...

Renal dysfunction not infrequently follows severe burns, but much of its nature and pathogenesis is as obscure as its relationship to mortality. Previous studies showed that the bWood urea rose considerably both in subjects who became severely oliguric, and in others with a normal urine flow, whilst the kidneys of both groups of patients often portrayed the same histological picture of diffuse ...

introduction: we intended to assess the accuracy of re-expressed modification of diet for renal disease (mdrd) and cockcroft-gault (cg) equations to estimate glomerular filtration rate (gfr) in chronic kidney disease in two different etiologies of acute renal failure (arf): acute tubular necrosis (atn) and acute glomerulonephritis (agn). methods: patients admitted for arf or the patients compl...

severe overgrowth and tallness is very rare in human beings. the most common cause is gigantism due to the excessive secretion of the growth hormone, especially, before the closure of long bones’ epiphyseal growth plates. there are other rare disorders that are categorized on overgrowth syndromes. herein, we report an extremely rare, or even perhaps a unique, patient from iran. the clinical and...

A striking example of antagonistic drug effects (2) is afforded by the observation that in man salicylate, itself uricosuric in high dose, inhibits the pronounced uricosuria produced by probenecid (3, 4), sulfinpyrazone1 (5-9), and zoxazolamine (9-11). This suppressive action of salicylate has been assumed to be due to its successful competition with these drugs, and with uric acid, for renal t...

BACKGROUND The pathogenesis of chronic cyclosporin A (CsA) nephrotoxicity is largely unknown. In this study we examined whether CsA produces cell death through necrosis or apoptosis of either cultured human proximal tubular epithelial cells (PTEC) or the porcine tubular cell line LLC-PK(1). METHODS Primary isolates of human PTEC and LLC-PK(1) cells were treated for various time periods with C...