introduction: world health organization (who) introduced hypertension as an epidemic in developing countries. however, hypertension is adequately controlled in only 12.5% of patients.  the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between ramadan fasting and mean arterial pressure (map). methods: this clinical, observational study was carried out at medical o.p.d of jinnah medical coll...

The Fourth Workshop on Numerical Algebra and High Performance Computation was held at University of Macau from December 8 to 10, 2012. The annual workshop aims at providing a high level forum for Chinese researchers around the world to review recent developments and explore exciting new directions in the areas of numerical algebra and high performance computing. It highlights recent advances in...

The economy has been highly developed in Japan and its GDP per capita has exceeded US thirty thousand dollars. The total GDP calculated on a basis of international exchange rate ranks No. 2 in the world. In the meantime, Japan is the fourth biggest export country and the sixth biggest import country in the world. How could Japan jump to be one of the richest countries, the most developed in eco...

Let’s fix some terminology at the start. A world (or possible world – for me, the ‘possible’ is redundant) is, first, an individual, not a set or class; second, a particular, not a property or universal; third, concrete in this sense: it is fully determinate in all qualitative respects; and, fourth, a maximal interrelated whole: each world is internally unified, and isolated from every other wo...

The influence of time on the drought response of Brassica rapa, an agriculturally important species of plant, has been clarified.

We investigate the spectrum and wave functions of q0q0 bound states for heavy fourth generation quarks (q0) that have a very small mixing with the three observed generations of standard model quarks. Such bound states come with different color, spin and flavor quantum numbers. Since the fourth generation Yukawa coupling, q0 , is large we include all perturbative corrections to the potential bet...

Have you heard enough about consolidation and eliminating redundant costs from the distribution system? Are you tired of hearing that wholesalers must become more efficient and execute better? All of us hear these same themes over and over; and make no mistake, they partially define the trends shaping our industry for the foreseeable future. IBG understands these trends; we’ve talked about them...

Kirschmann's Fourth Law states that the magnitude of simultaneous color contrast increases with the saturation of the inducing surround, but that the rate of increase reduces as saturation increases. Others since Kirschmann have agreed and disagreed. Here we show that the form of the relationship between simultaneous color contrast and inducer saturation depends on the method of measurement. Fu...