Crohn's disease (CD) is a major subtype of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Herb-partitioned moxibustion (HPM) has been proven to be effective in treating CD by a large amount of clinical and experimental researches. MiRNAs (microRNAs) are increasingly recognized as important posttranscriptional regulators of inflammatory genes. In this study, we established experimental CD rat models and inve...

Traditional Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) uses program instrumentation with one or more small training input data sets to generate edge or value profiles to guide compiler optimizations. This approach has been effective in predicting branch directions for many applications. However, for optimizations that are more dependent on the performance characteristics and the accuracy of the profiles...

BACKGROUND Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP) causes hepatopancreatic microsporidiosis (HPM) in shrimp. It is probably endemic in Australasia and was first characterized and named from the giant or black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon from Thailand in 2009. Later, it was also found to infect exotic Penaeus vannamei imported for cultivation in Asia. HPM is not normally associated with shrimp mortal...

Changes in the metabolic hormonal balance during the climacteric and menopause, especially surgically induced menopause, increase the risk of acute cerebrocardiovascular complications. This major risk may be linked to changes in blood pressure. In this study we performed twenty-four ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in climacteric (C), menopausal (PM), and surgically induced menopausal women...

In this paper, we have introduced a fractional-ordered predator-prey population model which has been successfully solved with the help of two powerful analytical methods, namely, Homotopy Perturbation Method (HPM) and Variational Iteration Method (VIM). The fractional derivatives are described in the Caputo sense. Using initial values, we have derived the explicit solutions of predator-prey pop...

2-Ethyl-1,3,4-trimethylimidazolium is so far the fifth and largest imidazolium cation able to produce the pure silica zeolite ITW. The crystallization is not direct, but occurs as an in situ transformation from either the chiral HPM-1 (STW) zeolite or the new layered zeolite precursor HPM-2 (preMTF) and results in large interpenetrated crystals with a habit so far unseen in this zeolite. The re...

background: changes in lifestyle and eating habits have put women at risk of obesity and overweight more than ever. this aim of this study was to investigate the effect of pender’s health promotion model (hpm) to improve the nutritional behavior of overweight and obese women admitted to fatemiyeh hospital clinics in hamadan, west iran in 2015. methods: n this quasi-experimental study, 108 eligi...