“Sacrifice” Among Ahmadi Women

450 - 456 Ahmadi N A.pmd

This study was conducted to evaluate retrospectively 203 patients diagnosed with hydatid cyst disease and treated surgically at two university medical centers between 1999 and 2009 in Tehran, the capital of Iran. Cystic echinococcosis (CE) affected more females 117 (57.6%) than males 86 (42.4%). A remarkable gender difference skewed towards females was observed, and the male/female ratio among ...

Ritual, Masks, and Sacrifice

INTRODUCTION Ritual is intimately connected with the mask, either in the wearing that hides the true face, or in the adoption of a public face. The mask makes the disengagement from ordinary time and the connection to the ancient and repetitive, which is the heart of ritual, psychologically acceptable. Together, ritual and mask facilitate the apprehension of identity and its connections with pa...

The sacrifice precision method

Sometimes problems are only hard when the numerical quantities are arbitrary, complicated large integers. When these numerical quantities are limited to being small integers, the problems become efficiently solvable. (One way to formalize this is to consider these quantities as being specified in unary, and ask if the problem becomes polynomial-time solveable.) This is called being “hard in the...

What Will You Sacrifice?

Jamshid Ahmadi 1 Chi - Sing Zee 1 Fong

The lumbar epidural venograms of 45 consecutive patients with prior normal or equivocal myelographic examinations were reviewed . Each venographic injection was performed using transfemoral double-catheter technique, abdominal compression , Valsalva maneuver, and serial filming for 12 sec. There was a 30% incidence of false " occlusions" of epidural veins suggestive of compression by a herniate...