due to its geopolitical position, the city of antioch had always been the scene of confrontation and tension between the great powers of the ancient era since its establishment in the seleucid era until the late sassanid era. the findings of this research indicate that the structure of antioch was checkered in pattern and it derived its political, economic, commercial, religious and military si...

this case report presents an eight-year-old girl having periauricular swelling and severe pain during mouth opening on the right-side temporomandibular joint (tmj). cbct showed extensive destruction of the base of the skull and the roof of the glenoid fossa on the right side. the findings based on ct and mri images with and without contrast are discussed herein. this report highlights a skull b...

thirty five children with a primary complaint of chest pain were prospectively studied. the average age was 9.7 years for boys and 8. 9 years for girls 60% were male. the most frequently diagnosed cause was psychogenic (54.2%). forty percent of the patients were classified as having idiopathic chest pain. precordial pain was encountered in 2. 9%), along with costochondritis and mitral valve pro...

one of the main objectives of development policies in different countries is food security. extensive researches around the world specially during last decades show the role of nutrition in health, food security, increase of efficiency and economic development. considering that a healthy diet and having access to sufficient and healthy foods are the basic human rights, governments are obliged t...

PURPOSE To compare the relative advantages and disadvantages of four different representations of corneal power--identified as instantaneous, axial, position, and refractive--based on curvature, slope, coordinate position, and focal properties, respectively. METHOD The four types of corneal power were evaluated by examining their interrelationship for 12 hypothetical corneal shapes chosen to ...

transient ischemic left ventricular dilation (tid) is a marker of severe and extensive coronary artery disease as well as an increased risk of adverse outcomes. the patients with more severe and extensive ischemia, multivessel-type of perfusion abnormality as well as patients with left anterior descending artery (lad) territory perfusion abnormality have more probability of having tid. evaluati...

The loss of biodiversity through a rapidly changing climate means humans can no longer assume their longevity on Earth; crisis that has prompted wave literary imaginings. This article examines Maja Lunde’s History Bees (2015) and Richard Powers’ Overstory (2018). Through comparing these authors’ contrasting treatment temporality, I argue both novels perform crucial cultural work in destabilisin...

This article aims to discuss the role of sea and naval power in “Rise Fall Realism”; “Defensive Structural “Offensive Realism”, which are respectively represented by works Gilpin (2002) Modelsky Thompson (1988); Posen (2003) Mearsheimer (2001). We argue that these scholars mistakenly employ as if they were synonyms. In fact, mainly concerned with military component power, is, power. addition, w...