Results Median age was 10 years (range 1-17). Diagnoses of the patients were Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) (35.7), reactive arthritis (15%), Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) (12.7%), connective tissue disorder/vasculitis (11.5%) and septic arthritis (3.8%). The remaining of patients (15.9%) was classified as arthritis of unknown etiology. Of all patients 51% had monoarticular, 38% had o...

We present a new method for scan-converting a straight line with antialiasing. A scan-converted straight line may contain many pixel segments of identical shapes. Therefore, instead of scanconverting the whole line step by step, we can scan-convert multiple segments of a line through copying and replicating. We discovered that through shifting and copying we can quickly achieve antialiasing. Wi...

Hospitalized patients initially on intravenous antibiotics can be safely switched to an oral equivalent within the third day of admission once clinical stability is established. This conversion has many advantages as fewer complications, less healthcare costs and earlier hospital discharge. The three types of intravenous to oral conversion include sequential, switch, and step-down therapy. The ...

Conversion of native cellular prion protein (PrPc) from an α-helical structure to a toxic and infectious β-sheet structure (PrPSc) is a critical step in the development of prion disease. There are some indications that the formation of PrPSc is preceded by a β-sheet rich PrP (PrPβ) form which is non-infectious, but is an intermediate in the formation of infectious PrPSc. Furthermore the presenc...

The biphasic secretory response of pancreatic beta-cells to abrupt and sustained exposure to glucose is well documented. Some of the ATP-sensitive K(+) (K(ATP)) channel-dependent mechanisms underlying the first phase of insulin release are known; the mechanisms underlying the second phase are less well known. The hypothesis we propose is that one rate-limiting step, controlling the conversion o...

objective : in this study, the effects of estradiol valerate and raloxifenea selective estrogen receptor modulator; (serm) on morphine induced sensitization were examined in mice memory, according to the step-down passive avoidance task. method: the mice received morphine or estradiol and raloxifene for three days alone or in combination with morphine. after a drug free period of 5 days, the su...

this experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect of different levels guar meal and β-mannanase on broilers male chicken. in this experiment , four hundred ross day old broiler chicks were randomly assigned to a 4×2 factorial design to feed broiler chickens diets containing guar meal at 4 level of guar meal (0, 3, 6 and 9%) with five replications of each treatment with or without β-mannana...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary supplementation with cinnamon powder, cinnamon oil, and synbiotic as growth promoter agents on growth performance, blood parameters, and intestinal microbial populations in Japanese quails. A total of 420 one-day-old Japanese quails were randomly assigned to 7 treatments with 4 replicates. The dietary treatments consi...

A high resolution analog to digital converter (ADC) is presented and it’s dedicated to neural recording systems. By employing two continuous time incremental sigmadelta(I∑∆) ADC in a pipeline configuration, without sacrificing the conversion rate the proposed ADC can obtain high resolution. This two-step architecture is furthermore power efficient, as the resolution need for the incremental ADC...