an investigation was carried out on a young unrelated couple, both 29 years old, with two boys and three girls, 3 months to 8 years old. one boy and the mother were healthy, the other four children and the father were affected. the family, originally from the district of nour, in northern iran, near the caspian sea, was first counseled at the genetic clinic in tehran in 1984. several trips were...

thymoma is the most common neoplasm of anterior mediastinum with incidence peaks during the fourth, fifth and sixth decades of life. two-thirds of patients are asymptomatic and identified accidentally by chest x-rays . of the total, 40-70 % of patients have one or more parathymic syndromes of which myasthenia gravis (mg) is the most common and reported in 10-50% . gullain-barre syndrome (gbs) h...

conclusions there was a significant association between pms scores and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome. further studies are needed to confirm and validate the relationships between lipid profile abnormalities and metabolic disorders with pms. objectives this study was designed to investigate the association of hormonal and metabolic factors with pms among iranian women of reproductive age....

This paper provides a multiple-priors representation of ambiguous beliefs à la Ghirardato, Maccheroni, and Marinacci (2004) and Nehring (2002) for any preference that is (i) monotonic, (ii) Bernoullian, i.e. admits an affine utility representation when restricted to constant acts, and (iii) suitably continuous. Monotonicity is the main substantive assumption: we do not require either Certainty ...

The analysis of extensive-form games involves assumptions concerning players’ beliefs at histories off the predicted path of play. However, the revealed-preference interpretation of such assumptions is unclear: how does one elicit probabilities conditional upon events that have zero ex-ante probability? This paper addresses this issue by proposing and axiomatizing a novel choice criterion for a...

Lewis, D. A., M. P. Bracamonte, K. S. Rud, and V. M. Miller. Selected Contribution: Effects of sex and ovariectomy on responses to platelets in porcine femoral veins. J Appl Physiol 91: 2823–2830, 2001.—Estrogen replacement increases risk of venous thrombosis. In this study, we determined responses in vitro to platelets and platelet products in veins from adult male and intact and ovariectomize...

Wrist stiffness has been shown to have a greater effect on wrist dynamics than inertia and damping for all but the fastest wrist rotations [1]. Therefore, making coordinated wrist rotations requires that humans predict and compensate for the effects of wrist stiffness. Because wrist stiffness is anisotropic (with greater stiffness in radial-ulnar deviation than flexion-extension), some movement...

Rai¤a (1961) has suggested that ambiguity aversion will cause a strict preference for randomization. We show, however, that dynamic consistency implies that individuals will be indi¤erent to ex ante randomizations. On the other hand, it is possible for a dynamically-consistent ambiguity averse preference relation to exhibit a strict preference for some ex post randomizations. We argue that our ...