Because the Thomas Parran Award is the highest honor in the field of sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention and research, I am humbled and honored to be this year’s recipient. I want to express my thanks to the Association and the Award Committee for this great honor. Any lifetime achievement award results from a lifetime of influences and my experience is no different. I owe an extraord...

Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is a common and important clinical problem in many different organ systems. Once the blood flow and oxygen supply are reestablished, reperfusion enhances the injury caused by the ischemic period .This phenomenon, known as ischemia/reperfusion (IR) injury, impacts directly on liver viability, especially during transplantation and liver surgery. The purpose of th...

Background: Non-union of the femoral neck fracture in young and middle-aged patients is a problem and can be very debilitating. If the femoral head is viable, the most appropriate treatment is valgus osteotomy that without refreshing of the fracture site, it only increases the femoral neck angle to change shearing force to compression force. In this study, after refreshing the non-union site an...

The study area, located in the southern section of the Central Iranian volcano–sedimentary complex, contains a large number of mineral deposits and occurrences which is currently facing a shortage of resources. Therefore, the prospecting potential areas in the deeper and peripheral spaces has become a high priority in this region. Different direct and indirect methods try to predict promising a...

In order to investigate the effects of salt stress on biochemical and physiological responses of two cultivars of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) namely, Diabolourde and Yazdi, chlorophyll content, growth parameters, and proline contents of roots and shoots, reducing sugars contents of roots and shoots, and membrane injuries of the plant samples were subjected to 0, 100, 150, and 200 mM NaCl treat...

Dear Editor, Close cooperation between researchers and policy-makers to find the specific health needs of communities, would lead to taking evidence-based decisions in addressing communities’ health problems. Publication errors, like reporting outdated statistics are among the key factors that influence effectiveness of such decisions. During the data collection process for a global systematic ...

Complexes of Ruthenium (II and III) have attracted the interest of the scientific community as potential antitumor drugs, thanks to their low toxicity and ability to overcome drug resistance [1]. Although Ru metallodrugs exhibit antitumor activity in both oxidation states, the Ru (III) metal ion is likely to be reduced to Ru (II) in vivo. In this way, Ru (III) complexes would act as a prodrug, ...

On Sum Coloring of Graphs Mohammadreza Salavatipour Master of Science Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2000 The sum coloring problem asks to nd a vertex coloring of a given graph G, using natural numbers, such that the total sum of the colors of vertices is minimized amongst all proper vertex colorings of G. This minimum total sum is the chromatic sum of the graph, ...

This special issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience contains the revised and extended versions of selected papers presented at the Euro-Par 2009 conference. Euro-Par—the European Conference on Parallel Computing—is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. The major themes...