one of the inhuman conducts which may be used in order to take confession from the accused or information from others is torture which has been forbidden and criminalized in the islamic and iranian criminal law. in addition, there are certain international and regional instruments which recommend or require the countries to take appropriate measures in their domestic laws to combat torture. rec...

lipoprotein(a), an ldl variant, has been claimed to have a role in atherogenesis and therefore coronary artery disease (cad). however, its production and atherogenecity seems to vary among ethnic groups. in order to study the possible correlation between levels of lp(a) and cad in iranian patients who suffered myocardial infarction (mi), a case-control study was carried out on 120 mi patients a...

BACKGROUND Quality of life is of significant importance in chronic hepatitis B (CHBV). We aimed to assess the psychometric properties of the Hepatitis B Quality of Life Questionnaire v1.0 (HBQOL) in a large sample of 320 Iranian patients with CHBV. METHODS After adapting the Iranian version through forward-backward translation and expert panel discussion, we administered HBQOL together with S...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much are twenty seven thousand photos worth? We believe that they can help tell the life history of a person. In this paper we present a depiction of Dr. Ben Shneiderman’s life based on a Network Analysis of MyLifePix, a highly curated collection of more than twenty seven thousand of his pictures that show the world from his camera lens. In this analy...

PO Box 6395, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-0395, USA, and School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Our cover illustration for the February 2006 issue was a departure from the custom of our first year. An artful assembly of the best in crystal photomicrographs submitted by authors of crystallization communications in 2005 replaced the ‘molecule of the mo...

If a “picture is worth a thousand words,” then why have attempts over the past decade to use pictures and animations to replace or supplement traditional instructional methods for teaching algorithms produced such disappointing results? In an earlier paper (Hansen, Schrimpsher, & Narayanan, 1998) we described a research project based on the premise that a rethinking of algorithm animation desig...