BACKGROUND Shoulder pain is a common problem, with 30% to 50% of the American population affected annually. While the majority of these shoulder problems improve, there is a high rate of recurrence, as 54% of patients experience persistent symptoms 3 years after onset. PURPOSE Posterior shoulder tightness has been shown to alter glenohumeral (GH) kinematics. Clinically, posterior shoulder con...

Nitric oxide modulates the expression of matricellular genes involved in fibrosis in renal glomerular mesangial cells Dissertation Submitted for the acquisition of the degree of Ph. Acknowledgements Praise be to Almighty Allah who is worth all the praises and from whom I seek help and guidance. Thanks to the All-Compassionate and the Most-Merciful who gave me the courage and the strength to com...

ii iii To my Family … iv ACKNOWLEDGMENT All praise and glory is to almighty Allah who gave me the courage and patience to carry out this work, and peace and blessings of Allah be upon his last prophet Muhammad. Acknowledgement is due to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals for supporting this research. I am grateful to the electrical engineering department, faculty and staff, for all ...

We present in this paper a simple and e cient synchronizer algorithm for Asynchronous Bounded Delay Networks. In these networks each processor has a local clock, and the message delay is bounded by a known constant. The algorithm improves on an earlier synchronizer for this network model, presented by Chou et al.[CCGZ90]. Moreover, using a mathematical model for this type of synchronizer, we sh...

Many commonly used numerical methods for the solution of Boundary Value Problems (BVPs) for Ordinary Di erential Equations (ODEs) contain signi cant components that can be parallelized easily, and recent investigations have shown that substantial speedups are attainable on machines with a modest number of processors. However, a stage in most of these methods is the numerical solution of an Almo...

Study of Term Millah 'Abd Al-Muṭṭalib in the Hadith Narrated by Ibn Hibban no. 982 and its Relation to Problem Abu Talib’s Faith Talib's problem is centered on issue faith or disbelief. Some scholars are opinion that Talib was a disbeliever because until end his life he reluctant pronounce shahada. However, some argue believer great care love for Prophet Muhammad so Allah glorifies him. In this...