Road infrastructure in countries like India is expanding at a rapid pace and is becoming increasingly difficult for authorities to identify and fix the bad roads in time. Current Geographical Information Systems (GIS) lack information about on-road features like road surface type, speed breakers and dynamic attribute data like the road quality. Hence there is a need to build road monitoring sys...

1 Center for Transport Studies, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Cape Town, South Africa 2 Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; E-Mails: [email protected] (M.J.G.B.); m.f.a.m.v...

Several theorems, inspired by the Krasovskii-LaSalle invariance principle, to establish “lim inf” convergence results are presented in a unified framework. These properties are useful to “describe” the oscillatory behavior of the solutions of dynamical systems. The theorems resemble “lim inf” Matrosov and Smallgain theorems and are based on a “lim inf” Barbalat’s Lemma. Additional technical ass...

We report three cases of chronic hepatitis C (HC) with pneumonitis, suspected to be caused by natural and recombinant interferon (INF) alfa treatments. The patients were administered INF through intramuscular injection. All three patients developed acute respiratory failure (PaO2 < or = 60 mm Hg) with bilateral lung infiltration. One of the patient's condition improved after the cessation of IN...

Inf lammatory myof ibroblast ic tumor is an unusual disease that is most commonly seen in the lung and orbit and extremely rare in the mediastinum. As far as we know, there have been only two case reports of mediastinal inf lammatory myofibroblastic tumor occurring in patients over 40 years old. In literature, we found no such case of mediastinal inf lammatory myof ibroblastic tumor that can pr...

Abstract Background: Early diagnosis of right ventricle (RV) involvement in inferior myocardial infarction (Inf MI) is very critical. This study was performed to evaluate the clinical findings of Inf MI with or without RV infarction. Methods: From September 2010 to September 2012, 195 patients with definite diagnosis of Inf MI were evaluated in the Department of Cardiology, in Babol, north of...

The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system participates in chronic progressive renal disease. The studies presented here assessed the importance of aldosterone in two different methods of reduced kidney mass in the rat, i.e., the infarction model (INF; uninephrectomy plus infarction of approximately two-thirds of the other kidney) and surgical excision or polectomy (POL; uninephrectomy plus surgi...

BACKGROUND Major trauma patients (TP) developing imbalanced immune response are at high risk for infectious post-injury complications including pneumonia. Neutrophils play a central role in the host defense against bacteria and thereby pathogenesis of infections. While there are numerous studies about neutrophil function after trauma, data about their biology in patients who suffer from pneumon...

To evaluate and compare the therapeutic efficacy of adenine arabinoside (Ara-A) and alpha-interferon (alpha-INF), 40 patients with biopsy proven chronic active hepatitis B were chosen at random to receive Ara-A (15 mg/Kg, iv, for 10 day) or alpha-INF (3 million unit, sc, every other day for 12 wks) and followed up to 12 months after completion of the therapy. All patients were HBeAg positive. T...