background: increasing the complexity in modern radiotherapy techniques have increased the delivery time lowering consequently the treatment efficacy. through simulating the delivery time delay encountered in such techniques, its’ effect on two cancer cell lines and the compensating doses given to prevent such effect was investigated. materials and methods: f10b16 and 4t1 cancer cell lines were...

889 December 2013, Vol. 103, No. 12 SAMJ Imagine trying to mollify 400 municipal health workers who have been told they will be changing employers, job descriptions and possibly workplaces – with only half their senior management in place. Imagine that, and you will have a picture of what the Foundation for Professional Development (FPD) and their partner, the newly formed Nelson Mandela Bay (N...

at times, despite an unripe cervix, induction of labor may be needed. in these cases, a safe and suitable method should be considered for cervical ripening and pregnancy termination. the aim of this study is the comparison of vaginal misoprostol with foley catheter for cervical ripening and induction of labor. this randomized clinical trial was performed on 108 pregnant women who had referred t...

liability for the contents or use thereof. The contents do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of the State of California or the Department of Transportation. This report does not constitute a standard, specification, or regulation. 2 Abstract We consider the Courier Delivery Problem, a variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem with time windows in which customers appear probabi...

We study the following multi-objective combinatorial stack-up problem from delivery industry. Given a sequence q of labeled bins and two positive integers s and p. The aim is to stack-up the bins by iteratively removing one of the rst s bins of the sequence and put it to one of the p stack-up places. Each of these places has to contain bins of only one label, bins of di erent labels have to be ...

The use of dry powder inhalers (DPIs) is expanding beyond asthma and chronic obstructive disease (COPD) into new therapeutic targets that include pulmonary arterial hypertension, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, anti-emetics, anti-diabetic, antivirals and orally inhaled vaccines and antibiotics. Recent product launches together with the noticeably strong DPI pipeline on the non-asthma, non-COPD m...

recently, specific attention has been paid to aptamers, short dna or rna, as a tool for cancer diagnosis and therapy. in the present study mcs nanogels were prepared by myristate: chitosan at 1:9 ratio and were characterized by several techniques. a selected ssdna aptamer(apt) capable of detecting lncap cells was linked to myristilated chitosan nanogels (apt-mcs) by glutaraldehyde and loaded wi...

conclusions the results showed the effectiveness of bromelain on episiotomy pain and wound healing. therefore, it is suggested to use bromelain in postoperative stage to improve wound healing and reduce pain. background ananas comosus has long been used for medical purposes. currently, we are experiencing an unprecedented interest in the use of complementary medicine as well as a growing attent...

Background: Over recent decades, modern protocols of external beam radioÂ‌therapy and radiation techniques such as intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) have been developed. These methods are extremely sensitive to errors in treatment delivery, so that it is essential to apply a high resolution 3D dosimetry system that has high sensitivity and is capable of measuring and verifying the complex...