of their peaceful island, which both threatened their ageing industrial supremacy and recalled to them the restive barbarians at the peripheries of their far-flung empire. Pick shows convincingly how British doctors and writers alike used a language which enabled them to deny simultaneously the existence of degeneration in their land (and therefore its cure by political means) yet identify and ...

The inclusion of pharmacists in the healthcare system of a developing country like Pakistan has always been a subject of debate among the healthcare professionals (HCPs), especially physicians, who have long ruled the healthcare system alone and who have had a long-held position of supremacy. The common argument against the inclusion of pharmacists is the dynamics of the healthcare system, and ...

in order to study the qualitative, quantitative characteristics of a pure common populus alba stand in polkalleh & a mixed stand of populus alba & populus nigra in karchegan, two 30-year-old stands were selected with a plantation interval ( spacing) of 2.5 × 1.5 m in each of which 30 pcs of 2 are samples were randomly selected. in each sample pc all the trees diameters were measured using a dia...

expansive soils are of the kind the volume of which will be changed to extremes by being exposed to varying conditions of moisture. this volume change is a serious menace to structures built on these types of soils. throughout the present research the potential of volume change in these soils was investigated when exposed to the phenomenon of wetting and drying. for the purpose, samples of a st...

sophia perennis, including the principles of metaphysics, anthropology, ethics and theology, has been placed in the hearth of all traditions. all ways to attain the pure essence of god begins from knowing one`s own self as is understood in the hadith: “one who comes to know himself will know his lord”. on this issue there may be found two important disagreements between schuon, and nasr as his ...

the aim of this study was to investigate the pharmacokinetic profiles of baicalin, wogonoside, baicalein and wogonin after oral administration of pure baicalin, radix scutellariae and scutellariae-paeoniae couple extracts were administered and the pharmacokinetics profiles were compared between normal and ulcerative colitis rats. the plasma concentrations of the four flavonoids were determined ...

Background: Accidents are the second reason for mortality and morbidity in Iran. Among them, brain injuries are the most important damage. Clarification of the effects of brain injuries on different body systems will help physicians to prioritize their treatment strategies. In this study, the effect of pure brain trauma on the cardiovascular system and lungs 24 hours post trauma was assessed. M...