introduction: metabolic syndrome includes obesity, hypertriglyceridemia, glucose intolerance, hypertension and lipid profile abnormalities. the risk of cardiovascular diseases with this syndrome is higher than every components alone. in view of its burden and high mortality rate, this syndrome should be noted. methods: the 25-64 aged individuals in 17th zone of tehran were studied. it was desig...

Fifty-three patients with subendocardial infarction (SEMI) were studied at autopsy; all were elderly and the group was equally divided by sex. About half had more than one SEMI; the recurrences or extensions often involved superjacent, but not infrequently adjacent, areas. Six showed fibrinous pericarditis. This larger study showed more widespread and severe coronary narrowing than an earlier r...

1. Budin PC. Le nourrison: alimentation et hygiene. Enfants debile et enfants nes a terme. Paris: Doin; 1900.( http:// www.neonatology.org/classics/default.html ) 2. Lubchenco LO, Hansman C, Dressler M, Boyd E. Intrauterine growth as estimated from liveborn birth-weight data at 24 to 42 weeks of gestation. Pediatrics. 1963;32:793-800. 3. Anderson DM. Nutritional assessment and therapeutic inter...

The ability of social insect colonies to tackle different tasks simultaneously without central control is a key factor in their ecological success. Individual choices by colony members give rise to collective behaviours that are robust to dynamic and uncertain environments (Camazine et al., 2001). The mechanisms of this process, known as self-organised task allocation, have inspired a variety o...

Text adaptation is a teacher practice used to help with reading comprehension and English language skills development for English language learners (ELLs) (Carlo, August, McLaughlin, Snow, Dressler, Lippman, Lively, & White, 2004; Echevarria, Vogt and Short, 2004; Yano, Long and Ross, 1994). The practice of text adaptation involves a teacher’s modification of texts to make them more understanda...

I study a model of portfolio choice over the life-cycle incorporating a transactions need of using monetary assets (MA), …xed costs of participation in non-monetary assets (NMFA) markets, and a realistics ‡uctuation of the return spread (the “opportunity cost”of holding MA). I estimate model parameters to match age pro…les of portfolio positions and market participation in a dataset consisting ...

Fig. 8 was not corrected before publication. The correct figure appears below. We apologise to the authors and readers for this mistake. 2099 RESEARCH ARTICLE INTRODUCTION Kidney development serves as a model for examining the mechanisms that underlie organogenesis, including cellular aggregation, polarization, differentiation and mesenchymal-epithelial interactions. Key processes in kidney dev...