How can the classical psychological laws be explained and unified? It is proposed here that scale-invariance is a unifying principle. Distributions of many environmental magnitudes are observed to be scale invariant; that is, the statistical structure of the world remains the same at different measurement scales [Mandelbrot, B., 1982. The Fractal Geometry of Nature (2nd Edn.). W.H. Freeman, San...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of depressive disorder among brucellosis patient attending to the central university hospital in Hamadan, Iran. Methods: In this case-control study, the rate of depression was compared between 100 brucellosis patients as cases and 71 healthy controls. The depression was assessed with Zung Depression Scale and confirmed by a clini...

TO THE EDITOR—Treatment of multidrugresistant (MDR) tuberculosis requires longtime usage of toxic drugs that are unpleasant for patients and costly for patients and governments. The costs in terms of human suffering, disability, and socioeconomic loss are immeasurable. In Iran, diagnosis and treatment of the disease are offered free of charge; fees are paid by the government and several chariti...

We review and summarize Terrence Deacon’s book, Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter.

taking into consideration the fact that convergence of the kurds and shiites on the national security and interests of the islamic republic of iran is a vital necessity, the exact knowledge of nature and category of such a coalition might assist the state security policymaking so that by a better understanding of such a strategy and by comprehension of sensitivity of this opportunity, the polic...

An intelligent agent uses known facts including statistical knowledge to assign degrees of belief to assertions it is un certain about We investigate three principled techniques for doing this All three are applications of the principle of indi erence because they assign equal degree of belief to all basic situations consistent with the knowledge base They di er because there are competing intu...

In this paper we discuss how Fibonacci growth patterns are apparent in the structure of human language. We moreover show how familiar dynamics yielding these sorts of patterns in nature may be taken to apply, at some level of abstraction, for the human faculty of language. The overall picture casts doubts on any simplistic treatment of language behavior, of the sort stemming from classical beha...

many studies have shown that mycotoxin contamination of agricultural products is a challenge for individual's health espe­cially in developing countries. improper production and storage of foods, prepare conditions for aflatoxin production in crops, especially rice, wheat, pistachio, walnut, almond, etc which are the main sources of foods for people. feeding live­stock by contaminated bread is ...