Kievan Rus: A Tumultuous Journey Ended With War

Ritual as an Amalgam of Allegiance: Spirituality and Death in Early Kievan Rus'

The tumultuous journey of nesiritide: past, present, and future.

Almost 3 decades ago, we witnessed the discovery of the natriuretic peptides and the role of the heart as an endocrine organ in which peptides of cardiovascular origin emerged as a humoral link between the heart and the kidney in cardiorenal homeostasis. In the United States, one such natriuretic peptide, B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP), was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2...

Theory for Searching in a Thesau- rus

In this article we present a framework based on Situation Theory which models the Query by Navigation process in a Hypertext environment. Descriptors in the Hyperindex are transformed to so-called infons. Documents in the Hyperbase are represented as situations, which can support infons. Similarly, search paths are modeled as a number of followed information links between the infons expressing ...

A journey in anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity with emphasizing on doxorubicin: a review article

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States and has become a health problem worldwide. The reported incidence of new cancer cases is estimated at 19.3 million, with a mortality rate of 10 million in the world in 2020. There are several therapeutic approaches for cancer, including chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is consuming anti-neoplastic drugs, alone or in combination. However...

A Journey With Allergy: A Recollection

Memories can be the most precious of possessions. Today I write about over 50 years of my journey with allergy. More than naming my field of specialization, allergy has been my passion, and has become, in its way, my own life’s companion. My journey of love with allergy began in 1960 at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Canada. I believe I was the first Asian to have trained under the le...