The objective of soft tissue quantitative ultrasound (QUS) is to improve diagnostic ultrasound imaging capabilities via quantitative outcomes. Over the past three or so decades, there have been an increasing number of QUS successes. A temporal view moves us back in history almost six decades when techniques and theoretical developments were in their earliest stages that impacted modern QUS succ...

avicenna (980 – 1037 ad) known as the prince of physicians in the west was one of the most prominent persian thinkers, philosophers, and physicians. owing to his interests in cardiology, he authored considerable works on different aspects of cardiology. “resaley-e-ragshenasi” (book on pulsology) and”kitab al-adviyt- ol-qalbiye” (the book on drugs for cardiovascular diseases) are avicenna’s grea...

The mammographic screening debate has been running for decades. The temperature of this debate is unusually high, and all participants, regardless of viewpoint, seem to have a conflict of interest. Another unusual aspect of this debate is the focus on study design, and in particular on designs that some think exceeded their usefulness decades ago. What are the questions that remain to be answer...

Abstract Instrumental data from the pre–Industrial Revolution period are important to ­understand climate change. In this paper, observations made by French missionary J. Amiot in present-day central Beijing during 1757–62 were processed and analyzed. The represent earliest continuous dataset of meteorological records found China that have been digitized recently. Comparisons between annual tem...

"Sixty-five has long been thought of as the point of entry into ¿old age'. We propose a number of life table criteria for answering the following questions: If 65 was considered appropriate four decades ago, what is the corresponding age today? If 65 was (implicitly) a male-oriented definition four decades ago, as we believe it was, what would have been the appropriate definition for women at t...

A basic problem in biological nitrogen fixation is the distribution of this property among various organisms. Although several decades ago numerous bacteria were reported to fix molecular nitrogen, very few such claims survived because the proof was often based upon an unimpressive increase in visual turbidity or Kjeldahl nitrogen after prolonged culture. The limitation of these methods has bee...

this paper is an attempt to explain the form and components of iranian female painters artworks in the 70s and80s hijri. it seeks to assess women’s paintings of two decades ago in comparison with current iranian artworks. undoubtedly, the growth in the number of those who produce artworks motivates the researcher to study women’s produced paintings to identify iran’s current art field. to achie...

The respondent burden refers to the effort required by a answer questionnaire. Although this concept was introduced decades ago, few studies have focused on quantitative detection of such burden. In paper, face-to-face survey and telephone conducted in Valencia (Spain) are analyzed. presence is studied terms both item non-response rates careless response rates. particular, two moving-window sta...

Two decades ago, ‘1971’ was deemed to not have a market within Indian publishing houses and media outlets. Yet, one is struck by the contemporary focus on iconic figure of Birangona – brave women, title given State Bangladesh women raped Pakistani army their Bengali non-Bengali collaborators during war 1971. It important engage with public memory wartime sexual violence 1971 beyond horrific con...