Diagnosis of sacroiliitis (SI) with bone scintigraphy may involve difficulties even with a quantitative approach. The aim of this study was to evaluate the combined use of bone and bone marrow scintigraphies for the diagnosis of active sacroiliitis. Thirty-one patients who were clinically suspected to have SI were included in the study. Bone and bone marrow scintigraphies were done after inject...

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to characterize the processes of ethical and professional nursing transacted at the Regional Nursing Council of Santa Catarina (Coren/SC), considering their factual elements (events/offenses, causes and outcomes). METHOD This descriptive, exploratory and documentary research with a quantitative approach was developed at Coren/SC. Data was collected from 128 p...

OBJECTIVES To use (99m)Tc sulfur colloid ((99m)Tc-SC) and (99m)Tc mebrofenin ((99m)Tc-BrIDA) to study liver function in normal and diabetic rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Radionuclide imaging was performed on 2 groups of rats, using (99m)Tc-SC for one group and (99m)Tc-BrIDA for the other (20 rats per group) before and after induction of diabetes mellitus (DM) using streptozotocin administration...

Modern programming languages, such as C++ and Java, provide a sequentially consistent (SC) memory model for well-behaved programs that follow a certain synchronisation discipline, e.g., for those that are data-race free (DRF). However, performance-critical libraries often violate the discipline by using lowlevel hardware primitives, which have a weaker semantics. In such scenarios, it is import...

CuAlS2  Chalcopyrite  nanocrystalline  are  synthesized  with  facile method.  The  heat  arrested  solvothermal  method  for  synthesize nanocrystalline  were  investigated.  The  time  duration  of  synthesis, temperature of solution and metal salts to solvent molar ratio can be parameters  that we are  studied. The nanoparticles were  synthesized with CuCl, AlCl3 and  thiourea (SC(NH2)2...

Garlic (Allium sativum L.) and garlic extracts have therapeutical properties that stem from their sulfur-containing compounds, mainly allicin. The main objective of this work was to compare conventional and “premium” garlic extracts in terms of yield and quality, with the latter being obtained using supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) as the solvent. Yield ranged between 0.65 and 1.0% and inc...

Fertilizers derived from natural materials, such as Sargassum sp. (seaweed), are a promising technique to overcome the negative impact of overuse inorganic fertilizers. Groundwater contamination, soil degradation, and changes in microorganism community problems related overdosing on fertilizer during crop production. The use compost (SC) substitute was tested by evaluating growth yield shallot ...

BACKGROUND The conversion of the cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) into the infectious form (PrP(Sc)) is the key event in prion induced neurodegenerations. This process is believed to involve a multi-step conformational transition from an alpha-helical (PrP(C)) form to a beta-sheet-rich (PrP(Sc)) state. In addition to the conformational difference, PrP(Sc) exhibits as covalent signature the sulfo...

Interpretation of Recursive Queries Agostino Cortesi and Raju Halder 1 DAIS, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy [email protected] 2 Dept. of Comp. Sc. & Engg., Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India Abstract. In this paper, we extend recent works on concrete and abstract semantics of structured query languages by considering recursive queries too. We show that combining abstraction of da...

The heavier alkali-metal monosulfides (KS, RbS, CsS, and FrS) have been studied by high-level ab initio calculations. The RCCSD(T) method has been employed, combined with large flexible valence basis sets. All-electron basis sets are used for potassium and sulfur, with effective core potentials being used for the other metals, describing the core electrons. Potential-energy curves are calculate...