abstract aim and background: evaluation of cognition is fundamental for every comprehensive epilepsy program. we sought to conduct this study to assess memory state of patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy before decision for epilepsy surgery. method and materials: in a case-control study, 20 patients with right temporal lobe epilepsy and 20 patients with left temporal lobe epilepsy w...

dar bayan-i ?istikhradj-i djayb-i yik daradja is a persian treatise by an anonymous author. the author’s purpose is to describe and explain a method for the determination of the sine of one degree according to ??sh ch?’s persian commentary on ulugh beg’s z?dj, and ????z?da’s arabic treatise entitled ris?la fi ?istikhradj djayb daradja wahida. kad?zada’s work, extant in several manuscripts, is, ...

in medieval islamic persia, mina was known as a general term for enameling on metal, glass and ceramic. consequently, in modern times mina’i is one of the most important types of islamic ceramic production and identified by stone paste body and multicolored polychrome over-glazes which represent figural, geometric and floral designs as well as calligraphic perform. additionally, mina’i wares ar...

The black oaks of California include 4 tree species (California black oak, coast live oak, Shreve oak, interior live oak) that are known to hybridize. Complex patterns of population variation within each species are likely to result from these hybrid combinations and from subsequent introgressions. We have been studying population variation using biochemical and molecular markers and report res...

In the past lecture, we investigated the preferential attachment model for the generation of power law degree distributions. While “rich-get-richer” models may be considered close to the truth for WWW-like graphs, they do not seem appropriate for graphs such as the Internet, as there appears no natural reason why nodes would choose to attach to high-degree nodes (or be more likely to find out a...

BACKGROUND Nosocomial infections are one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity in hospitals, especially in intensive care units (ICUs). OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the impact of garlic tablets on nosocomial infections in hospitalized patients in intensive care units. METHODS This clinical trial was carried out on 94 patients, admitted to the intensive care units i...