Women innovators become STEM ambassadors for girls

Student Ambassadors and STEM Outreach

A Narrative Analysis on How Women Become Drug Addicts

Expended Abstract Introduction: Since the increase in the number of female drug addicts is one of the major social issues across the world, Iran has been no exception to this global trend. The present study aims at identifying the nature of the problem, defining and analyzing it, as well as describing women’s experience of addiction. Method: The present research is qualitative in type. Partic...

Control Ambassadors

I t is not often that the future of control is discussed in the mainstream media, but it occurred in a column in the March 17, 2014 issue of Barron’s Technology Week [1]. The author, impressed with the advances in sensor technology displayed at the 2014 South by Southwest show in Austin, Texas, concludes the article with conjectures about future smart control devices that new sensors will enabl...

A Narrative Analysis on How Women Become Drug Addicts

Expended Abstract Introduction: Since the increase in the number of female drug addicts is one of the major social issues across the world, Iran has been no exception to this global trend. The present study aims at identifying the nature of the problem, defining and analyzing it, as well as describing women’s experience of addiction. Method: The present research is qualitative in type. Partic...

Inducing Embryonic Stem Cells to Become Cardiomyocytes

I.S. Cohen and G.R. Gaudette (eds.), Regenerating the Heart, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, DOI 10.1007/978-1-61779-021-8_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Abstract Many forms of heart disease are associated with a decrease in the number of functional cardiomyocytes. These include congenital defects (e.g. hypoplastic and noncompaction syndromes) as well as acquired in...