In the present work, the non-spherical grain characteristics of comet Halley are analysed using the T-matrix method at λ= 0.365,0.485 and 0.684μm respectively. In order to analyse the polarisation data of comet Halley, the dust size distribution function derived by Das et al. (2004) for comet Halley is used in the present work. The size range of the grains is taken to be 0.01μm≤ s ≤ 3μm. Using ...

Introduction Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients are, as a consequence of their disease and its treatment, believed to have an increased risk for osteoporosis. As inhibitors of bone resorption, bisphosphonates are becoming widely used in the management of postmenopausal and glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (GIO). Also vitamin D and calcium therapy has been used for the treatment of GIO. Howev...

Glucocorticoids (GC) are diffusely used to treat a wide variety of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders, including rheumatic diseases. GC-induced osteoporosis (GIO) is the most common and serious side-effect for patients receiving GC. Loss of bone mineral density (BMD) is greatest in the first few months of GC use; fracture (Fx) risk is significantly increased at the spine and hip on doses eve...

Mariano Consens, [email protected], University of Waterloo, Canada Alistair Dunlop, [email protected], University of Southampton, UK Daniel Ford, [email protected], IBM Research Almaden, USA S Ramani, [email protected], National Centre for Software Technology, India Chander Sarna, [email protected], Netscape Communications, USA Gio Wiederhold, [email protected], S...

Alendronate belongs to a class of drugs called bisphosphonates. Bisphosphonates (BP) therapy is a vital option to reduce the risk of bone fracture in people who suffer from osteoporosis. Yet, bisphosphonate have displayed several side effects. Lepidium sativum (LS) seeds have been used in traditional folk medicine to heal fractured bones. However, there is a dearth of information on the impact ...

Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are the cornerstones in the management of bronchial asthma and some cases of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Although ICS are claimed to have low side effect profiles, at high doses they can cause systemic adverse effects including bone diseases such as osteopenia, osteoporosis and osteonecrosis. Corticosteroids have detrimental effects on function and survi...

348 © 2015 Guilford Publications, Inc. Halley E. Woodward thanks the National Science Foundation and the University of Iowa Presidential Graduate Research Fund for funding through Graduate Research Fellowships. This study was also funded by the University of Iowa’s Social Sciences Funding Program. Address correspondence to Halley Woodward, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, 11 Seasho...

In a recent paper, Noor and Noor [K. Inayat Noor, M. Aslam Noor, Predictor–corrector Halley method for nonlinear equations, Appl. Math. Comput., in press, doi:10.1016/j.amc.11.023] have suggested and analyzed a predictor–corrector method Halley method for solving nonlinear equations. In this paper, we modified this method by using the finite difference scheme, which has a quintic convergence. W...

Contributors and participants: John Beavers, CC Technologies; Jeff Braithwaite, Sandia National Laboratories; Rudy Buchheit, Ohio State University; Clive Clayton, State University of New York; Thomas M. Devine, Jr., University of California; Steve Dexter, University of Delaware; Joe Farmer, Lawrence Livermore National Lab.; Jerry Frankel, Ohio State University; Greg Gdowski, Lawrence Livermore ...