in the beginning, middle, and end there was a garden: bahram sadeqi’s malakut

In the Beginning, Middle, and End There Was a Garden: Bahram Sadeqi’s Malakut

It seems impossible to think of the Persian art without mentioning the significant presence of gardens. They are present in miniature painting, architecture, and literature. One of the modern works of Persian fiction in which gardens play a significant role is Malakut (1961), a novella by the modern Iranian fiction writer Bahram Sadeqi (1936-1984). The story of this novella begins in a “green g...

In the beginning there was babble…

Life Sciences Institute; University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee; European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI); Wellcome Trust Genome Campus; Hinxton, Cambridgeshire UK; Saccharomyces Genome Database; Department of Genetics; Stanford University; Stanford, CA USA; WormBase Gene Name Curator; Department of Biochemistry; University of Oxford; Oxford UK; R...

In the beginning, there was the cell: cellular homeostasis.

In the past 5 years, the biomedical, scientific community has sequenced the genomes of several organisms (including Homo sapiens), has cloned entire organisms and has determine the molecular structures for several membrane proteins. These advances combined with the advances in technology enabling high-throughput drug screening, gene expression readout using DNA chips and evolving proteomic tech...

Rehabilitation of Schizophrenia: At the End or in the Beginning?

The Majority of the long stay psychiatric patients who are in need of rehabilitation suffer from schizophrenia. Most of them enter the old age with this illness, and besides the consequences of schizophrenia, they are facing the deprivation and misery due to the old age. In contrast to the previous decades in which there was no effective treatment for schizophrenia, today with the immediate dia...

A Creation Narrative for the Psychometric Society and Psychometrika: In the Beginning There Was Paul Horst.

A review is provided for the creation of the Psychometric Society in 1935, and the establishment of its journal, Psychometrika, in 1936. This document is part of the 80th anniversary celebration for Psychometrika's founding, held during the annual meeting of the Psychometric Society in July of 2016 in Asheville, NC.

Bioethics at the beginning, middle, and end of life.