PurposeNephrolithiasis is thought to be a risk factor for osteoporosis, but data assessing if osteoporosis predisposes to the risk of nephrolithiasis are lacking.The present study aims to investigate whether patients with nephrolithiasis have a prominently higher prevalence of osteoporosis than the controls and vice versa via a cumulative analysis.

Chinese quantifiers are heavily loaded with Chinese culture, making it challenging to translate them into idiomatic English.The majority of earlier studies only examined linguistically the English translations of Chinese quantifiers.The interpretation of linguistic information, however, is a developing flexcon reverse osmosis water storage tank and

We mapped the distribution of two defensive behaviors (balling and head hiding) of Neotropical snakes to evaluate its distribution in distinct phylogenetic groups.Balling behavior was telemarkskongen flue observed in 58 out of the 167 examined species across seven families.Head hiding was observed in a total of 100 species across nine families.From

On-board state estimation is a persistent challenge to fielding unmanned aerial systems (UAS), particularly when global positioning system (GPS) measurements are not available.The dominant estimation tool remains the extended Kalman filter (EKF) applied to an inertial measurement unit (IMU).The growing availability of low-cost commercial-grade IMUs