BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The present study was carried out to compare the efficacy of ESWL treating radiolucent ureteric calculi visible in the ureter after application of contrast media. MATERIAL AND METHODS Medical records of 47 patients who had verified ureteric calculi by intravenous urography and retrograde pyelography were included in this study. Patients had undergone ESWL treatment afte...

This paper presents a review and summary of recent research on the boundary value problems for linear ordinary and partial differential equations, with special attention to the investigations of the current authors emphasizing the applications of complex symplectic spaces. In the first part of the previous century, Stone and von Neumann formulated the theory of self-adjoint extensions of symmet...

Encased stone columns are vertical inclusions in soft soils formed by gravel wrapped usually with a geotextile. Their critical length is the one where further lengthening of column provides negligible improvement and it therefore not effective to build longer than it. This paper aims obtain common values using simplified two-dimensional axisymmetric full three-dimensional finite element analyse...

Recent astrophysical observations seem to indicate that the cosmological constant is small but nonzero and positive. The old cosmological constant problem asks why it is so small; we must now ask, in addition, why it is nonzero (and is in the range found by recent observations), and why it is positive. In this essay, we try to kill these three metaphorical birds with one stone. That stone is th...