Article history: Available online 3 April 2010

Three- and 4-year-old children were asked to judge which of a set of 3 lines was the longest, both independently and in the face of an inaccurate consensus among adult informants. Children were invariably accurate when making independent judgments but sometimes deferred to the inaccurate consensus. Nevertheless, the deference displayed by both age groups proved to be circumscribed. When asked t...

A Multi-Synchronization (MS) write-in shared buffer switch architecture is presented for a multistage system to relieve clock timing difficulty on various length connection links between switch elements in ultra high speed VLSI. The above architecture is useful to obtain flexibility and feasibility of VLSI design at sub nsec pulse switching because 30 mm deference in linking wire length on a sy...

Albuterol is an uncommonly recognized culprit in causing lactic acidosis. While treating asthmatics, lactic acidosis creates a paradoxical situation in which, despite improvement in bronchospasm, patients look more dyspneic as a compensatory mechanism for metabolic acidosis. This might lead to misinterpretation of the situation with increased albuterol dosing, creating a sort of vicious cycle u...

introduction cities and neighborhoods in iran couldn’t adjust themselves to quick changes of the recent decades and have lost their quality in many aspects. due to poor planning and governance at the regional and urban design on physical function, rapid growth of large-scale migrations and inefficient policies and procedures in dealing with urban neighborhoods neglected urban neighborhoods as w...