Background: The main goal of physical therapy is to help the patient gain a better health status. Several studies have investigated the use of reminders to prevent such failures on the patients’ side. This article presents a systematic review of the literature concerning reminders in physical therapy. Methods: Databases were searched until May 2017 and literatures were found from April 1...

BACKGROUND Chronic sinus inflammation may be determined partly by a balance of proinflammatory and counterregulatory cytokines and other mediators in the sinus. However, their mechanistic roles in chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) are not well understood. OBJECTIVE To evaluate production of proinflammatory (interferon gamma [IFN-gamma] and interleukin [IL] 12) and counterregulatory cytokines (IL-1...

It has been shown recently that the toroidally compactified type IIB string effective action possesses an SL(2, R) invariance. Using this symmetry we construct an infinite family of macroscopic string-like solutions permuted by SL(2, Z) group for type II superstrings in 4 ≤ D < 10. These solutions, which formally look very similar to the corresponding solutions in D = 10, are characterized by t...

The m × n quantum grassmannian, G q (m, n), with m ≤ n, is the subalgebra of the algebra O q (M mn) of quantum m × n matrices that is generated by the maximal m×m quantum minors. Several properties of G q (m, n) are established. In particular, a k-basis of G q (m, n) is obtained, and it is shown that G q (m, n) is a noetherian domain of Gelfand-Kirillov dimension m(n − m) + 1. The algebra G q (...

BACKGROUND This was a systematic review of the literature in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement. Evidence mapping was used to reveal the effect of drug reminder packaging on medication adherence, to identify research gaps and to make suggestions for future research. METHODS PubMed, Embase, CINAHL and PsycINFO were searched...

Background: The value of systematic lymphadenectomy (SL) in the treatment of early endometrial cancer (ECC) is still being debated. The purpose of the present study was to assess the benefit of SL for ECC by performing a systematic review of the published literatures. Methods: Systematic research was performed on Pubmed Database, Embase, Medline, Web of Science and CENTRAL for studies from 2003...

in this study 485 specimen of garra rufa (heckel, 1843) from 29 populations from six river systems and basins including tigris, karkheh, karun, persis (helleh and mond), hormuz and maharlu were collected by a 5mm mesh sized seine net, anesthetized in 1% clove oil solution, fixed in 10% formalin and transferred to the laboratory for further investigations. some 28 morphometric, 25 morphometric p...

background: hypertension is increasing rapidly in developing countries. today, modern technologies are suggested as the tools used to enhance medication adherence. this study aimed to compare the effectiveness of short message service (sms) to reminder cards with regard to medication adherence in patients with hypertension. methods: the present study is a randomized controlled clinical trial. t...

PURPOSE To compare 5 different Kirschner wire fixation techniques in terms of the failure loads seen as scapholunate (SL) dissociation in a cadaveric, biomechanical study. METHODS 10 fresh-frozen, finger-amputated wrists with sectioned SL ligaments from 3 male and 2 female cadavers were tested. The change of SL angle, SL dissociation, and the load to failure of the 5 different Kirschner wire ...

According to the number of sub-SL(8)s (sub-STS(7)s), there are five classes of sloops SL(16)s (STS(15)s) [2, 5].) In [4] the author has classified SL(20)s into 11 classes. Using computer technique in [10] the authors gave a large number for each class of SL(20)s. There are only simple SL(22)s and simple SL(26)s. So the next admissible cardinality is 28. Also, all SL(32)s are classified into 14 ...