East Asians and Westerners perceive the world and think about it in very different ways. Westerners are inclined to attend to some focal object, analyzing its attributes and categorizing it in an effort to find out what rules govern its behavior. Rules used include formal logic. Causal attributions tend to focus exclusively on the object and are therefore often mistaken. East Asians are more li...

Sudden cardiac death resulting from ventricular arrhythmia is one of the leading public health problems of most developed countries. Despite intense research in the areas of ionic channels and pharmacological interventions, a panacea has not been found to control life-threatening arrhythmia and improve survival. In addition, the results of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial' demonstrated ...

Sarcopenia is an age-related geriatric syndrome which is characterized by the gradual loss of muscle mass, muscle strength, and muscle quality. There are a lot of neurologic insults on sarcopenia at various levels from the brain to the neuromuscular junctions (NMJs) to generate a volitional task. Dopaminergic downregulation, inadequate motor programming and motor coordination impairment lead to...

What follows are the perceptions of two individuals-a patient and a highly respected medical oncologist who did not participate in the care of this patient but read the patient's essay. We encourage readers to share their thoughts about these essays in correspondence. Barrie E. Cassileth, Ph.D. Department of Integrative Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York A. Ber...

emotional complain is derived from the human being inner pains and grief. hafiz ibrahim poetry is full of cries and yells because of happiness loss in his life. he has experimented poverty and difficulty and heard the oppressed people complians and shared with them. a strong relationship between his chosen vocabulary and his grief can be seen that the reader would understand the depth of his sa...

although the right for intellectual property as a branch of legal sciences is absolutely recognized in the world, there is dispute among jurists and lawyers with regard to even some of its primary problems, such as sale of such properties in our country. surveying some conditions of sale contract which seem controversial at a glance, such as necessity of object of sale being subjective, and exp...

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Child abuse and neglect is seen as an abnormal parenting behavior whIch has resulted from neglect or abuse of the abusive parents during their early lives. Included are brief sections on the following topics: the development of the abusive child-rearing pattern (lack of sufficient love and care, extremely high premature demand for performance, and excessive criticism and physical punishment for...