abstractmuhammad asif mohseni, a shia religious authority and an afghan political activist, has recently published the second printing of his al-mu’jam al-ahadith al-mu’tabarah in 8 volumes. a new arrangement has been adopted regarding the jurisprudential and non-jurisprudential chapters of the book, which indicates the author’s stance toward the status of reason and science as well as the posi...

considering the role of witness in the different sciences of language and literature and the importance of the muallaqat in arabic literature and the importance of explanations of these poems, in the present study, it is intended to study the method of commentators n applying the the different evidence of the quran, hadith, poetry, proverb, descriptive - analytical method was employed. the resu...

JCB • VOLUME 177 • NUMBER 3 • 2007 372 Moti l i ty from sel f -ant igens T cells get moving with a little self-stimulation, say Ursula Fischer, Elizabeth Ingulli (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN), and colleagues. Interactions with self-ligands activate motility pathways in helper T cells, the new fi ndings reveal. Helper T cells hunt in the lymph nodes for just the right combination of...

The conserved bifactorial endosperm box found in the promoter of wheat storage protein genes comprises two different cis elements that are thought to be involved in regulating endosperm-specific gene expression. Endosperm nuclear extracts contain binding activities. One is called ESBF-I, which binds to the endosperm motif (EM), and the other is called ESBF-II, which binds to the GCN4-like motif...

Ring signatures are an important primitive for protecting signers’ privacy while ensuring that a signature in question is indeed issued by some qualified user. This notion can be seen as a generalization of the well-known notion of group signatures. A group signature is a signature such that a verifier can establish its validity but not the identity of the actual signer, who can nevertheless be...

Diabetes mellitus and glucose intolerance are common in adolescent and adult patients with CF (Lanng et al, 1995; Moran et al, 1998). The prevalence of CF related diabetes (CFRD) increases with age (Moran et al, 1998) and in patients over 20 years of age may be as high as 53% (Lanng et al, 1995). CFRD occurs in up to 30% of individuals by the age of 25 and is invariably associated with pancreat...

In the last 25 years of the 20th century most major land regions experienced a summer warming trend, but the central U.S. cooled by 0.2–0.8 K. In contrast most climate projections using GCMs show warming for all continental interiors including North America. We examined this discrepancy by using a regional climate model and found a circulation-precipitation coupling under enhanced greenhouse ga...

Two to five hours before the occurrence of ovulation in the unanesthetized rabbit, the motility of the uterus profoundly diminishes from a marked type which is characteristic of oestrus, to a state approximating complete quiescence. This happens whether ovulation results from the normal stimulus of coitus or from the intravenous injection of whole human urine of pregnancy (Reynolds and Friedman...