traumatic brain injury (tbi) is one of the major causes of severe disability and death in the entire world that accidents are mentioned as main factors of it. tbi lead to primary and secondary injuries.  primary injuries are created immediately after accidents or bleeding but the secondary injuries are created by complicated process of cellular and molecular responses following primary injury a...

Having shown taxometrically that there exists a hypohedonic schizotypal taxon in a college population, J. J. Blanchard, S. W. Gangestad, S. A. Brown, and W. P. Horan (2000) suggested that P. E. Meehl erred in revising his 1962 theory by postulating a normal-range individual differences variable of hedonic capacity that potentiates schizotypy into schizophrenia. The aversive drift and secondary ...

in the construction process of a plastic concrete cut-off wall, concreting is usually performed using the termie pipe method. in this method, concreting is performed from the lowest point in the excavated trench (containing the slurry) using a funnel and the pipe connected to it. the concrete poured in the funnel gradually settles in the panel through the termie pipe which is beneath the slurry...

Puberty represents a particular period of life characterized by hormonal changes and physical and psychological modifications leading children from childhood to adolescence. During this period, menarche represents the most important event in females. Age of menarche is different among populations and has been recognized as an useful marker of socio-economic status, as well as dietary and enviro...

abstract: appealing to the principle of vertical residence and stemming the horizontal expansion of the city, the tehran milad tower is being built on 35000 sm3 site with the total area of 220000 sm3. with a height of over 170m, this 56-story concrete building is in the final stages of construction and would be the highest residential building of iran. since tehran is located in a high-risk ear...

and by different people but the dichotomy is in each case essentially the same, the fundamental idea behind it being that the mental impairment of every defective is either due to hereditary (germinal) abnormality or else acquired in the course of the life of the individual either before, during or after birth. It was not unnatural that the earliest attempts at classifying defectives employed t...

Amenorrhoea, which is usually defined as no periods for six months or more, occurs in 10-20% of patients complaining of infertility and is one of the commonest reasons for referral to a gynaecological endocrine clinic. It usually implies an endocrine abnormality of ovarian function. In many women a preliminary diagnosis may be made from clinical evaluation at the initial visit to the clinic, an...