Osteoporosis (OP) and increased risk of fracture (Fx) associated with chronic glucocorticoid treatment pushed panels of experts and scientific societies to produce recommendations for both prevention and treatment of glucocorticoid-induced OP (GIO). Recently the American College of Rheumatology developed and/or endorsed their updated guidelines and recommendations for the prevention and treatme...

We introduce a dynamically weighted Halley (DWH) iteration for computing the polar decomposition of a matrix, and prove that the new method is globally and asymptotically cubically convergent. For matrices with condition number no greater than 1016, the DWH method needs at most 6 iterations for convergence with the tolerance 10−16. The Halley iteration can be implemented via QR decompositions w...

the present study describes the changes in expression of hydroxy- carboxylic acid receptor 2 (hca2 receptor) in femoral epiphysis and metaphysis of rats with glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (gio). 16 growing male sprauge dawley rats were randomly divided into two equal groups consisting of normal control and rats that were rendered osteoporotic by receiving 0.1 mg/kg/day dexamethasone throu...

follow the intellectual Property available for investment in new projects and jobs. My intent is to help make computer scientists aware of the relationship of the flow of jobs in computing and the flow of preexisting IP. The ability to create valuable software greatly depends on prior technological prowess. The processes allowing IP to be moved offshore, beyond where the software was created, a...

A one-parameter family of iteration functions for finding the simple roots of nonlinear equations is presented. The iteration process is based on one-point approximation by the quadratic equation x + ay + bx + cy + d = 0, where the unknowns b, c and d are determined in terms of a. Different choices of a correspond to different approximating quadratic curves, viz. parabola, circle, ellipse and h...

A binomial sampling method for the potato aphid, Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas), on processing tomato plants, Lycopersicon esculentum (Mill), is proposed. Relationships between mean number of M. euphorbiae per leaf and proportion of leaves infested [P(I)] with M. euphorbiae for both upper and interior leaves of the processing tomato varieties 'Alta' and 'Halley' are presented. A split-plot des...