In today's cities, especially metropolises, the issue of identity and its transformation has become one of the most important issues among urban authorities and designers. Mean while, Mashhad as the second religious metropolises in the world has an identity- causing and effective role among Islamic cities of Iran In recent decades, the amount of urban construction, especially in central part of...

aim : to evaluate the role of  endoscopic ultrasonography (eus) in the diagnosis of gallbladder microlithiasis, sludge, and stone  in patients with clinical suspicion of cholecystitis, but with normal transabdominal ultrasonography (tus) during six months follow-up after laparosopic cholecystectomy (lct). background : endosonography has been shown to be highly sensitive in the detection of chol...

BACKGROUND Malignancy risk with tumour necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi) therapy remains unclear. Our primary aim was to assess malignancy risk with TNFi therapy in a cohort of Australian patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We also assessed risk in a biologic-naïve group. METHODS Demographic data of all RA patients enrolled in the Australian Rheumatology Association Database before 25 Oct...

in today's cities, especially metropolises, the issue of identity and its transformation has become one of the most important issues among urban authorities and designers. mean while, mashhad as the second religious metropolises in the world has an identity- causing and effective role among islamic cities of iran in recent decades, the amount of urban construction, especially in central pa...

a r t i c l e i n f o Management theories, especially those in the area of human resource management, are predominantly Western-centric in origin and in the empirical testing that underpins them. The purpose of this paper is to explore perceptions of one such theory, employee empowerment, in an Asian context. Information gathered from an open ended questionnaire and focus groups provide an in-d...

BACKGROUND The goal of this study has been to evaluate the extent of mycotoxins contamination and their co-occurrence in wheat grain intended for animal feed. A total of 52 wheat samples were collected from the harvest of two consecutive years (2010, 2011) from two counties (Timis and Arad) located in Western Romania and the presence of ochratoxin A (OTA), deoxynivalenol (DON), zearalenone (ZON...

The detection of atherosclerosis has changed considerably over the past few decades, with an ever-increasing array of diagnostic tools available to the researcher and practicing clinician. For many decades, traditional risk factor assessment was the mainstay for prognostication, forming a basis for preventive strategies aimed at risk reduction. More recently, new laboratory markers (e.g., C-rea...

A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of sensor nodes (SNs) with wireless communication capabilities for specific sensing tasks. Each SN maintains connectivity and exchanges messages between the decentralized nodes in the multi-hop manners. A source node can communicate with its destination via a certain number of relaying nodes, which consequently enlarges the wireless coverage of the sourc...