Sidney Campbell Dyke, founder of the Association of Clinical Pathologists and for many years a member of the Advisory Board of this Journal, died on 3 March. He was 88. Obituary notices have already been published in the British Medical Journal and Lancet (22 March). These have recorded Dyke's distinguished scholastic career, his wide range of scientific interests, his motives in founding the A...

A successful enterprise resource planning (ERP) system ultimately requires loyal use—proactive, extended use and willingness to recommend such uses to others— by employees. Building on interactional psychology literature and situational strength theory, we emphasize the importance of psychological commitment, in addition to behavioral manifestation, in a multilevel model of loyal use. Our empir...

the present study is an attempt to analyze the characters in the novel blindness and its cinematic adapta- tion from intersemiotic viewpoint. to this end, the researchers provided a synthesized model, which is a combination of bernando (2012) and forster's (1927) classification of characters in order to analyze the two main characters from intersemiotic viewpoint. considering the differenc...

for alexandr sergeyevich pushkin, one of the greatestrevolutionary novelists and poets of the 19th century, society and thegoverning power were two lifetime issues. pushkin portrayed different socialclasses including farmers, peasants, and rulers. moreover, he was master offorming character types. one of these character types that has been mainlydealt with in this study is the superfluous man i...

BACKGROUND The ATP7A gene encodes the ATP7A protein, which is a trans-Golgi network copper transporter expressed in the brain and other organs. Mutations in this gene cause disorders of copper metabolism, such as Menkes disease. Here we describe the novel and unusual mutation (p.T1048I) in the ATP7A gene of a child with Menkes disease. The mutation affects a conserved DKTGT1048 phosphorylation ...