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Jordan University of Science and Technology
Education•Irbid, Irbid, Jordan•
About: Jordan University of Science and Technology is a education organization based out in Irbid, Irbid, Jordan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 7582 authors who have published 13166 publications receiving 298158 citations. The organization is also known as: JUST.
Topics: Population, Health care, Heat transfer, Cloud computing, Adsorption
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TL;DR: The results show that waterpipe smoking and cigarette smoking significantly increase the frequencies of SCEs compared with those of nonsmokers, indicating the genotoxic effect of tobacco smoking.
Abstract: Tobacco smoking is a major world health problem. Recently, waterpipe smoking has become more popular in many countries. Although the genotoxicity associated with cigarette smoking has been extensively investigated, studies evaluating such toxicity in waterpipe users are still lacking. In this study, we examined the genotoxicity of waterpipe smoking in lymphocytes compared with the genotoxicity of cigarette smoking. Genotoxicity was evaluated using the sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs) assay. Fifty waterpipe smokers and 18 healthy nonsmokers participated in this study. Additionally, 18 heavy cigarette smokers (CS) were recruited for comparison. The results show that waterpipe smoking and cigarette smoking significantly increase the frequencies of SCEs (P < 0.01) compared with those of nonsmokers, indicating the genotoxic effect of tobacco smoking. In addition, frequencies of SCEs were significantly higher among waterpipe smokers compared with CS (P < 0.01), indicating that waterpipe smoking is more genotoxic than cigarette smoking. Moreover, the frequency of SCEs increased with the extent of waterpipe use. In conclusion, waterpipe smoking is genotoxic to lymphocytes and the magnitude of its genotoxicity is higher than that induced by regular cigarette smoking.
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TL;DR: It was concluded from this study that changing the pH within the matrix influenced the rate of release of the drug without affecting the release pattern.
Abstract: The aim of this work is to design pH-dependent swellable and erodable-buffered matrices and to study the effect of the microenvironment pH on the release pattern of diclofenac sodium. Buffered matrix tablets containing diclofenac sodium, physically mixed with hydrophilic polymer (hydroxypropyl methylcellulose [HPMC]) and pH-dependent solubility polymer (Eudragit L100-55) were prepared with different microenvironment pHs. The release of diclofenac sodium from the buffer matrices was studied in phosphate buffer solutions of pH 5.9 and 7.4. The swelling and erosion matrices containing only HPMC and Eudragit L100-55 were studied in phosphate buffer solution of pH similar to the microenvironment pHs of the matrices. Drug release from matrices was found to be linear as a function of time. Amount of drug released was found to be higher in the medium of pH 7.4 than that of pH 5.9. The rate of drug release increased with the increase of the microenvironment pH of the matrices as determined from the slope. The pattern of drug release did not change with the change of microenvironment pH. The swelling and erosion occurred simultaneously from matrices made up of HPMC and Eudragit L100-55. Both extent of swelling and erosion increased with increase of the medium pH. It was concluded from this study that changing the pH within the matrix influenced the rate of release of the drug without affecting the release pattern.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a hybrid method between Lagrangian relaxation (LR) and evolutionary programming (EP) is applied to solve the profit-based unit commitment problem in day-ahead competitive electricity markets.
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TL;DR: In this article, carbon nanotube (GNP:CNT) and polypropylene (PP)/polyethylene (PE) blends filled with 5 vol% graphene nanoplatelets were prepared by melt mixing.
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TL;DR: Cancer patients often experience weight loss caused by protein calorie malnutrition during the course of the disease or treatment, and with a chronic illness on board even a small amount of weight loss can open the door to cachexia.
Abstract: // Anju Gangadharan 1 , Sung Eun Choi 2 , Ahmed Hassan 1 , Nehad M. Ayoub 3 , Gina Durante 4 , Sakshi Balwani 1 , Young Hee Kim 4 , Andrew Pecora 5 , Andre Goy 5 and K. Stephen Suh 1 1 The Genomics and Biomarkers Program, JT Cancer Center, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack Meridian Health, Hackensack, NJ, USA 2 Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Queens College, The City University of New York, Flushing, NY, USA 3 Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan 4 Department of Clinical Nutrition, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA, USA 5 Clinical Divisions, JT Cancer Center, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack Meridian Health, Hackensack, NJ, USA Correspondence to: K. Stephen Suh, email: // Keywords : malnutrition, cancer therapy, chemo treatment, biomarkers, nutritional intervention Received : July 25, 2016 Accepted : January 23, 2017 Published : February 04, 2017 Abstract Cancer patients often experience weight loss caused by protein calorie malnutrition (PCM) during the course of the disease or treatment. PCM is expressed as severe if the patient has two or more of the following characteristics: obvious significant muscle wasting, loss of subcutaneous fat; nutritional intake of 2% in 1 week, 5% in 1 month, or 7.5% in 3 months. Cancer anorexia-cachexia syndrome (CACS) is a multifactorial condition of advanced PCM associated with underlying illness (in this case cancer) and is characterized by loss of muscle with or without loss of fat mass. Cachexia is defined as weight loss of more than 5% of body weight in 12 months or less in the presence of chronic disease. Hence with a chronic illness on board even a small amount of weight loss can open the door to cachexia. These nutritional challenges can lead to severe morbidity and mortality in cancer patients. In the clinic, the application of personalized medicine and the ability to withstand the toxic effects of anti-cancer therapies can be optimized when the patient is in nutritional homeostasis and is free of anorexia and cachexia. Routine assessment of nutritional status and appropriate intervention are essential components of the effort to alleviate effects of malnutrition on quality of life and survival of patients.
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Andrew McCallum | 113 | 472 | 78240 |
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David S Sanders | 75 | 639 | 23712 |
Nidal Hilal | 72 | 395 | 21524 |
Nagendra P. Shah | 71 | 334 | 19939 |
Jeffrey R. Idle | 70 | 261 | 16237 |
Rahul Sukthankar | 70 | 240 | 28630 |
Matthias Kern | 66 | 332 | 14871 |
David De Cremer | 65 | 297 | 13788 |
Moustafa Youssef | 61 | 299 | 15541 |
Mohammed Farid | 61 | 299 | 15820 |
Rudolf Holze | 58 | 388 | 13761 |
Rich Caruana | 57 | 145 | 26451 |
Eberhardt Herdtweck | 56 | 332 | 10785 |