Tuberculosis is at least as old as mankind and the history of tuberculosis is intertwined with that of civilization. Over the centuries its prevalence has waxed and waned but it remained a continuous threat. Its association with diabetes mellitus was reported by Avicenna (Ibn Sina 980-1037) an Arabian physician [1,2]. It was the leading cause of death in diabetic patients in the preantibiotic e...

A wide range of applications, from social media to scientific literature analysis, involve graphs in which documents are connected by links. We introduce a topic model for link prediction based on the intuition that linked documents will tend to have similar topic distributions, integrating a max-margin learning criterion and lexical term weights in the loss function. We validate our approach o...

Fabrice F.C. Duval a,∗, Stephen A. Wilson a, Graham Ensell b, Nicolas M.P. Evanno c, Markys G. Cain d, Roger W. Whatmore a,1 a School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science, Cranfield University, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL, UK b INNOS Limited, Mountbatten Building, Highfield, Southampton, Hampshire SO17 1BJ, UK c Rolls-Royce Plc, Strategic Research Centre, Sina-28, P.O. Box 31, Derby DE24 8BJ, UK d...

1 Ibni Sina Hospital, Kayseri, Turkey 2 Erzincan University Department of General Surgery, Erzincan, Turkey Yazışma Adresi /Correspondence: Kemal Peker, Mengücek Gazi Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi Genel Cerrahi Anabilim Dalı, Erzincan, Türkiye Email: [email protected] Geliş Tarihi / Received: 16.01.2013, Kabul Tarihi / Accepted: 09.02.2013 Copyright © Dicle Tıp Dergisi 2013, Her hakkı saklıd...

*Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Mathematics, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran Abstract In this paper, we study some fixed point theorems for self-mappings satisfying certain contraction principles on a convex complete metric space. In addition, we investigate some common fixed point theorems for a Banach operator pair under certain generalized contractions on a convex c...

Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées, Informatique et Automatique pour l’Aérien (MAIAA), Département Sciences et Ingénierie de la Navigation Aérienne (SINA), École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC), 7 avenue Edouard Belin CS 54005, 31055 Toulouse, France; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +33-5-6217-9503 † This paper is an extended version of our...

1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 2Sinus and Surgical Endoscopic Research Center, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 3Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 4Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Mashhad University...

1Department of Basic Sciences, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 2Department of Medical Basic Sciences, Faculty of Allied Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 4Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Neuroscience Institute, Sina Hospital, Te...

A 19-year-old man with a history of recurrent urinary tract infection (UTI) due to Escherichia coli, chronic urinary obstructive symptoms, and incomplete bladder emptying since childhood presented to Sina Hospital. The patient did not mention any history of the urethral trauma, instrumentation, or surgical intervention. Physical examination revealed a massive bladder distention up to the umbili...