We have read the recently published 2017 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the Prevention and Treatment of Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis (1), and applaud the committee's efforts, but have a number of areas of disagreement. Our main concern is that in adults at high risk for fracture, oral and then parenteral bisphosphonates are recommended over teriparatide in selecting drug ...

When a finite group G acts faithfully on a graded integral domain S which is an algebra over a field k, such as a polynomial ring, we consider S as a kG-module. We show that S is asymptotically mostly projective in each degree, and also that it is in fact mostly free in an appropriate sense. Similar results also hold for filtered algebras, such as power series rings.

A unified database framework that will enable better comprehension of ranked XML retrieval is still a challenge in the XML database field. We propose a logical algebra, named score region algebra, that enables transparent specification of information retrieval (IR) models for XML databases. The transparency is achieved by a possibility to instantiate various retrieval models, using abstract sco...

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Science Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive and memory deterioration, as well as changes in personality, behavioral disturbances and an impaired ability to perform activities of daily living. AD is known to be the most common type of dementia. Despite decades of intensive research, the precise etiology of AD remains elusive. The majori...

How capitalist organizations ensure the obedience of its members has long been a matter of discussion. Behind the idealism of “market freedom” lie more troubling realities of daily subordination and ideologies of conformity. Increasingly scholars have studied the effect of subjugating subjectivities present in capitalist production. Two specific features of modern capitalism have been the utili...

Four different accounts of the relationship between third-person mindreading and first-person metacognition are compared and evaluated. While three of them endorse the existence of introspection for propositional attitudes, the fourth (defended here) claims that our knowledge of our own attitudes results from turning our mindreading capacities upon ourselves. Section 1 introduces the four accou...

The Powell singular function was introduced 1962 by M.J.D. Powell as an unconstrained optimization problem. The function is also used as nonlinear least squares problem and system of nonlinear equations. The function is a classic test function included in collections of test problems in optimization as well as an example problem in text books. In the global optimization literature the function ...

S. Z. Khalaf, A. A. Selman and E. E. Abd_Al lattef Abstract— The physical properties of the interaction region between the solar wind and Halley comet have been taken a considerable atten-tion in this work. The cometary ion tail that formed and shaped by the existence of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) is also depends on the comet type. This interaction can be described by plasma and ma...

Based on the general inner-outer (GIO) iteration method [5,34] and framework [6], we present a multi-step matrix splitting (GMMS) for computing PageRank, analyze its overall convergence property. Moreover, same idea can be used as preconditioning technique accelerating Krylov subspace methods, such GMRES method. Finally, several numerical examples are given to illustrate effectiveness of propos...