Twenty patients satisfying standard clinical criteria for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and six age-matched normal controls were studied using 99mTc hexamethyl-propyleneamine oxime and single photon emission tomography. The AD patients had lower regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in the temporal and posterior parietal lobes compared to controls. AD patients with apraxia and aphasia had lower rCBF i...

There are many reasons for decrease of the functional activity of the brain like aging of the neurons, bacterial diseases and neuro inflammations. Nowadays, the effects of exercise on physical and mental health have been proven but its effects on motor functions as well as neuro inflammation is an issue that has recently been studding. Neuro inflammation is a mechanism that can be caused by B...

Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most ordinary form of dementia and extracellular accumulation of Amyloid-β (Aβ) in senile plaques, is an important and a main event in the pathogenesis of AD. Deposition of Aβ Peptide initiates a spectrum of cellular responses that are interposed by the resident neuroimmune cells of the brain, the microglia. Recently, a novel inflammasome signaling&n...

Synapses have been known for many years to be the crucial target of pathology in different forms of dementia, in particular Alzheimer's disease (AD). Synapses and their appropriate activation or inhibition are fundamental for the proper brain function. Alterations in synaptic/neuronal activity and brain metabolism are considered among the earliest symptoms linked to the progression of AD, and l...

OBJECTIVE Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a skin disorder clinically seen in the pediatric population. It is well recognized that patients with AD have an increased susceptibility to cutaneous colonization and infection with bacteria, fungi, and viruses. This study was undertaken to investigate the phagocytic activity and chemotactic response of mononuclear and polymorphonuclear leukocytes in severe ...

Connected Dominating Set is widely used as virtual backbone in wireless Ad-hoc and sensor networks to improve the performance of transmission and routing protocols. Based on special characteristics of Ad-hoc and sensor networks, we usually use unit disk graph to represent the corresponding geometrical structures, where each node has a unit transmission range and two nodes are said to be adjacen...

Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANET) is the subclass of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). It is the most advanced technology that provides Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) in wireless communication among vehicles to vehicles and road side equipment (RSUs) to vehicles according to IEEE 802.11p standard. VANET provides broad range of safety and non safety applications. Safety application provi...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia worldwide. Since curative treatment has not been established for AD yet and due to heavy financial and psychological costs of patients' care, special attention has been paid to preventive interventions such as physical activity. Evidence shows that physical activity has protective effects on cognitive function and memory in AD patient...

Data Warehouse (DWH) information is accessed by business processes. Today, no conceptual models exist that make the relationship between the DWH and the business processes transparent. In this paper, we extend a business process modeling diagram, namely the UML 2 activity diagram with a UML profile, which allows to make this relationship explicit. The model is tested with example business proce...