OBJECTIVE To report the long-term outcome of Saudi children with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). METHODS Charts of all children with SLE treated between 1990 and 2010 at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center Riyadh, were reviewed. The long-term outcome measured by pediatric adaptation of the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics American College of Rheumatology ...

New Way to Express Ambulatory Blood Pressure Variability To the Editor: In their recent article, Sega et al1 provide the first demonstration that, in the population, there is a positive independent association between left ventricular mass index and the blood pressure variability component that has an erratic nature. For these conclusions we would report some considerations, based on our studie...

Dominant species play key roles in shaping community structure, but their behavior is far from uniform. We speculated that recognition of different behaviors (determined objectively) would be an indicator of the condition of plant communities. We developed a species dominance index (SDI) to identify dominant species and compare their behavior across multiple spatial scales. The SDI is based on ...

Textural patterns can often be used to recognize familiar objects in an image or retrieve images with similar texture from a database. Texture patterns can provide significant and abundance of texture and shape information. One of the recent significant and important texture features called Texton represents the various patterns of image which is useful in texture analysis. The present paper is...

Because of the expected sea level rise, most human properties located on coast have to be protected during present century. One engineering alternatives is build rock sloping coastal structures. Currently, their design has include procedures for aging and deteriorating forecast maintenance reparation costs its service life. The objective research reformulate rate mean damage proposed by Melby K...

Renal diseases tend to be less severe among premenopausal female patients, compared with male patients. Experimental data on the effects of estrogens on renal damage are controversial, and potential underlying mechanisms have not been fully clarified. Three-month-old, female, uninephrectomized (UNX), sham-operated or ovariectomized (OVX) SHRsp rats were left untreated or received either 17beta-...