starting his intellectual life as a precociously young medical practitioner, quṭb al-dīn shīrāzī (634-710 a.h.) was compelled to wander far and wide in his quest for knowledge. recognized and admired as a savant, and enjoying the patronage of key political figures of his era, shīrāzī's activities as a scholar continued even during his appointment as judge in rūm, and while serving as ambas...

BACKGROUND Previous studies demonstrated that the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) was being implicated in the airways inflammation and remodeling process in patients with asthma. AIMS We explored the relationship of three polymorphisms in the VEGF gene with asthma in both case control and family studies. METHODS We Genotyped a total of 210 children with asthma, 224 unrelated contr...

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1 Département de Biologie, PROTEO and Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, Canada and 2 Section of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA * Corresponding authors. CR Landry, Département de Biologie, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, 1030, Avenue de la Médecine, Université Laval, Québec City, ...

Serotonergic regulation of distention-induced ATP release from the urothelium 1 2 Kazumasa Matsumoto-Miyai, Erika Yamada, Eriko Shinzawa, Yoshihisa Koyama, 3 Shoichi Shimada, Masaru Yoshizumi, and Masahito Kawatani 4 Department of Neurophysiology, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1-1 5 Hondo, Akita, Akita 010-8543, Japan. 6 Kansai University of Nursing and Health Sciences, 1456-4...

Automated decision-making and profiling are finally being considered before the Court of Justice European Union (CJEU). Article 22 GDPR states that “the data subject shall have right not to be a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her similarly significantly affects her” – but its provisions raise many doubts doctrin...

Computer technology is going to see major advances in the 1990ss Users will see desk top computers with the computational power of today's super-computerss Even graphics capabilities for sophisticated 3 dimensional modeling and image processing would be available to the average user at a reasonable costt In the area of electronic publishingg users will be able to store video images in the compu...