Micro-computed tomography(micro-CT) is becoming an accepted research tool for the noninvasive examination of laboratory animals such as mice and rats, but to date, in vivo scanning has largely been limited to the evaluation of skeletal tissues. We use a commercially available micro-CT device to perform respiratory gated in vivo acquisitions suitable for thoracic imaging. The instrument is descr...

Identity management (IdM) comprises the processes and infrastructure for the creation and maintenance of user’s digital identities and the designation of who has access to resources, who grants that access, and how accountability and compliance are maintained. Identity management in organizations is done centrally using an enterprise identity management system (IdM system) or in a distributed f...

While there is much interest and work around the topic of how technology shapes our lives, there is less work around how technology can record our lives and how we can use that recording to remember, in cases when our own memories fail. Our work explores the incorporation of lifelogging technology into a therapeutic approach to support people with dementia. SenseCam therapy aims to stimulate th...

Recent studies indicate that molecules released by glia can induce synapse formation. However, what induces glia to produce such signals, their identity, and their in vivo relevance remain poorly understood. Here we demonstrate that supporting cells of the vestibular organ--cells that have many characteristics of glia--promote synapse formation only when induced by neuron-derived signals. Furth...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the impact religious rituals on cultural identity- a review relationship between practices and belonging.
 Methodology: adopted desktop research methodology. Desk refers secondary data or that which can be collected without fieldwork. is basically involved in collecting from existing resources hence it often considered low cost technique as...

it is near seventy years that the question of palestine and its occupation by the zionists has drawn attentions in iran. since the establishment of the zionist regime in palestine, many iranian politicians, intellectuals and even common people with various political backgrounds have paid attention to this question and have shaped several discourses in this regard. supporting the palestinian cau...

Monk seals in Cape Blanc (Western Sahara coast) suffered a mass mortality Turing May-July 1997 which was attributed to a morbilivirus. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis on tissues of seals killed during the outbreak and on related fauna showed peaks with retention times coincident with those of some saxitoxin derivatives but their identity of these toxins by mass spectromet...

We studied the use of archaeological scholarly knowledge for supporting and promoting national identity by global non-professional communities. The data collection consisted asynchronous online text-based Facebook focus group discussions in Croatia, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Lithuania, Spain. After, we conducted a qualitative content analysis posts comments collected.Our research's main result i...