background: patients with breast cancer are predisposed to some psychiatric symptoms and mental disorders due to their life styles or disease conditions. these problems cause patients to deal with daily stress, feeling guilty, anxiety, dysphoric mood and impaired social relations. such problems will lead to serious mental disorders. therefore, life skills training may help the patients to cope ...

Desired physical form of cities has been noticeable since the beginning of urbanization, from old patterns of early civilizations to the latest urbanism’s theories, which offered to build better cities. The opinions in recent decades have expressed that compact physical form of cities is a better form than sprawl form to achieve urban sustainability. The form of the city is the embodiment of it...

the present article surveys the personality and the life of mohammad maghout and studies and analyzes the play of the hunchback sparrow in regards to the form and content. mohammad maghout is one of the most prominent poets and writers from syria in the temporary century. such a personality is worth to be studied through his works to understand his concerns and thoughts.

OBJECTIVE To translate, validate and assess the reliability of kidney disease quality of life - short form (KDQOL-SF-36) in Urdu, national language of Pakistan. STUDY DESIGN Amulticentric descriptive cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Nephrology, Mayo Hospital, Lahore, from February to July 2015. METHODOLOGY Patients of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on maint...

The rapid increase in human longevity has raised important questions about what implications this development may have for the variability of age at death. Earlier studies have reported evidence of a historical trend towards mortality compression. However, the period life table model, commonly used to address mortality compression, produces an artificially compressed picture of mortality as a b...