Background: The exact pathogenesis of endometriosis has not been completely discerned. 1-alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25[OH][2]D[3]) has been shown to have an anti-angiogenic effect and extracellular matrix-proteases-degrading ...

Huntington's disease (HD) is a rare, progressive and fatal autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder, sometimes manifesting with psychiatric features. Depressed mood, anxiety, irritability, apathy, behavior disorders ...

The SAPHO syndrome (synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis and osteitis) is a rare syndrome with precise bone lesions and dermatologic manifestations. We report an unusual case of SAPHO syndrome with joint involvement ...

Tuberous sclerosis is a multisystem disease, involving primarily the skin, the brain, the kidneys, the heart and the eyes. The most frequent cardiac tumor is rhabdomyoma. In our patient who was referred to our hospital due ...

Water droplets falling onto finished fabrics can create spots which can spoil the appearance of the fabric. This study compares the propensity of softened filament polylactic acid and polyester fabrics to exhibit the adverse ...

Background: Laparoscopic ultrasound is an alternative to operative cholangiogram for evaluation of the common bile duct (CBD) during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. It is a safe, fast, and reliable method for detecting ...

This paper investigates the performance of three search algorithms: Myopic Algorithm, Adaptive Tabu Search and Degraded Ceiling to solve the buffer allocation problem in reliable production lines. DECO algorithm is used ...

A reverse direction supported particle swarm optimization (RDS-PSO) method was proposed in this paper. The main idea to create such a method relies that on benefiting from global worst particle in reverse direction. It ...

This study proposes a genetic algorithm (GA) based model to generate examination schedules such that they focus on students' success in addition to satisfying the hard constraints required for feasibility. The model is ...