in 2004, rodr'{i}guez-lallena and '{u}beda-flores have introduced a class of bivariate copulas which generalizes some known families such as the farlie-gumbel-morgenstern distributions. in 2006, dolati and '{u}beda-flores presented multivariate generalizations of this class. then in 2011, kim et al. generalized rodr'{i}guez-lallena and '{u}beda-flores' study to any...

Habitual consumption of a high glycemic index (GI) food causes postprandial increases in the blood glucose level, resulting in high insulin demand (Jenkins et al., 2002). The GI and GL, which considers both the quantity and quality of carbohydrate intake, have been shown to be related to chronic disease and increased risk of cancer (Patel et al., 2007; Jiao et al., 2009; Bao et al., 2010), incl...

We present a modified version of the infeasible-interior- We present a modified version of the infeasible-interior-point algorithm for monotone linear complementary problems introduced by Mansouri et al. (Nonlinear Anal. Real World Appl. 12(2011) 545--561). Each main step of the algorithm consists of a feasibility step and several centering steps. We use a different feasibility step, which tar...

Elhai et al.’s [1] study evaluates the frequency of radiological cervical spine involvement in young adults with polyarticular JIA (pJIA) compared with RA patients. The authors show that about two-thirds of patients in both groups had radiographic abnormalities in the cervical spine, including anterior atlantoaxial subluxation, erosion of the odontoid process, C1 C2 arthritis and apophyseal joi...

Reliable global estimates of forest biomass and its dynamics are critically important for understanding the global carbon cycle and its dynamics (e.g., Bellassen et al. 2011). Many studies have been published regarding the estimation of above-ground biomass using airborne or satellite analog lidar systems (e.g., Nelson et al. 1988; Naesset 2002; Drake et al. 2003; Popescu et al. 2003; Lim and T...

Methods We conducted a retrospective analysis of a single-centre paediatric JIA cohort. This included a review of the patient case notes, radiology and drug monitoring data of all children with JIA diagnosed with multi-joint (5 or more joint) disease in the 2 years since ACR-JIA were published.In total, 35 patients fulfilled ILAR criteria for the diagnosis of JIA since 2011: systemic arthritis ...

The water scavenger beetle genus Cymbiodyta Bedel contains 30 species (Jia & Short 2010, Short & Fikáček 2011), most of which are distributed in North America. Only one species (Cymbiodyta orientalis Jia & Short, 2010) has been described since the worldwide revision of the genus by Smetana (1974). This taxon was the second species of the genus known from the Old World and the first species know...

Cadmium is a well recognized environmental pollutant with diverse toxicity in various organs of human and animals (IARC, 1993). Prolong cadmium exposures can cause lung fibrosis, kidney tubular dysfunction, hypertension, osteoporosis, cancer, etc. (Peters et al., 1986; Patra et al., 2011). The common sources of cadmium are combustion of coal, mining, smelters and contaminated phosphate fertiliz...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and vitamin D deficiency are extremely prevalent worldwide (Holick 2007; World Health Organization 2011). The potential link between vitamin D deficiency and CVD-related death in both healthy and diseased populations is a growing area of translational research. Historically, the traditional role of vitamin D in maintaining calcium homeostasis and mineral metabolism ...