BACKGROUND/AIMS The diagnosis of functional heartburn is important for management, however it stands on fragile pH monitoring variables, ie, acid exposure time varies from day to day and symptoms are often few or absent. Aim of this study was to investigate consistency of the diagnosis of functional heartburn in subsequent days using prolonged wireless pH monitoring and its impact on patients' ...

Despite consensus in focus on form (FOF) instruction over the facilitative role of noticing, controversy has not quelled over ways of directing EFL learners’ attention towards formal features via implicit techniques like input-enhancement or explicit metacognitive feedback and interactive peer-editing on the output they produce. This quasi-experimental study investigated the impact of input enh...

Objectives: To examine the thermodynamics and kinetics of Alpinia officinarum’s (AO) inhibitory response on carbon steel (CS) corrosion in well water. Weight-loss (WL), potentiodynamic polarization (PDP), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) methods various pH levels are utilized to calculate inhibition efficiency (IE) rate (CR). Methods: WL PDP EIS techniques were performed assess adso...

Background:   Primary bone lymphoma or non-Hodgkin lymphoma of bone is a rare disease. There are only a few case series of stage IE of this condition in medical literature. The aim of this study is to determine the rate of survival   for stage IE after combined modality treatment, the rate of local recurrence, and the results of limb salvage in cases   of local recurrence.     Methods:   We col...