background: aasthma due to causing disruption in the work of breathing and obstruction of the pulmonary tract creates the physical restrictions in the social, emotional and psychological, aspects and performing daily life activities, hence the present study is conducted to determine the impact of a period of selected activity on some spirometry parameters of children from 5 to 10 years old suff...

We study parallel and distributed compressed indexes. Compressed indexes are a new and functional way to index text strings. They exploit the compressibility of the text, so that their size is a function of the compressed text size. Moreover, they support a considerable amount of functions, more than many classical indexes. We make use of this extended functionality to obtain, in a shared-memor...

Berger J, Bhandari V. Animal models of bronchopulmonary dysplasia. I. The term mouse models. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 307: L936–L947, 2014. First published October 10, 2014; doi:10.1152/ajplung.00159.2014.—The etiology of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is multifactorial, with genetics, anteand postnatal sepsis, invasive mechanical ventilation, and exposure to hyperoxia being well de...