In order to study giant resonance induced by Li scattering, optical model (OM) analysis of Li elastic scattering is necessary to get the optical parameters. OM has been widely used to analyze the heavy ion scattering data in term of empirical Woods-Saxon (W-S) parameterizations of the nuclear potential. However, it was found that a satisfactory microscopic understanding of heavy ion scattering ...

Bile acid malabsorption leads to chronic watery, non-bloody diarrhoea. Many patients present with symptoms suggestive of IBS. Idiopathic BAM (no obvious cause) occurs in both men and women, mostly between the ages of 30 and 70. There is often a long history of diarrhoea at the time of diagnosis, sometimes lasting longer than 10 years. The diarrhoea is continuous or intermittent; nocturnal diarr...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of degarelix, a new gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist (blocker), vs leuprolide for achieving and maintaining testosterone suppression in a 1-year phase III trial involving patients with prostate cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS In all, 610 patients with adenocarcinoma of the prostate (any stage; median age 72 years; median testosterone...

Hairy cell leukemia (HCL) is a chronic B-cell lymphoproliferative disorder that accounts for 2% of all leukemia. Recent identification of the recurrent V600E BRAF mutation in a majority of HCL patients has led some teams to evaluate the clinical potential of vemurafenib, a BRAF V600 specific inhibitor in a limited number of refractory HCL patients. Recently, we published the case of an HCL pati...

BACKGROUND Ingestion of a large dose of the milk sugar lactose--for example, the 50 g load in 1 liter of milk--causes symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhoea, bloating and flatulence in the majority of people with lactose malabsorption. It is uncertain whether the ingestion of more common doses of lactose, such as the amount in 240 mol (8 oz) of milk, causes symptoms. Some people insist that...

We consider undirected graphs without loops or multiple edges. A weighting of a graph G is an assignment of a positive integer w( e) to each edge of G. For a vertex x€V(G), the (weighted) degree d(x) is the sum ofweights on the edges ofG incident to x. The irregularity strength s( G) of a graph G was introduced by Chartrand et al. in [1] a.s the minimum integer t such that G has a weighting wit...

PURPOSE To compare the antihyperglycemic effects of metformin and creatine in recently detected type II diabetics in a short-term clinical study. METHODS In a 14 day simmetrically randomized crossover study, recently detected type II diabetics received either creatine (2x3 g/day) or metformin (2x500 mg/day) for five days, followed by two days of washout, followed by cross-over to the opposite...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess postoperative complications and patient satisfaction associated with mid-level provision of male circumcision in rural Kenya. METHODS A prospective cohort study was conducted among children, adolescents, and adult men undergoing male circumcision from September 1, 2008 to December 4, 2008 at Marie Stopes International Kenya mobile outreach sit...