I discuss a memorandum entitled " A True state of the Case and Controversy between Sir Isaak Newton & Dr Robert Hooke as the Priority of that Noble Hypothesis of Motion of ye Planets about ye Sun as their Centers " , where Robert Hooke summarized his seminal contributions to the physics of orbital motion and to the theory of universal gravitation. In a brief handwritten but undated memorandum e...

in this paper taqi modarresi’s life and his works are discussed briefly. he is one of the early persian writers in diaspora who left iran decades before the islamic revolution.  his novels have been published both in english and persian. azra-ye khalvatneshin [the virgin of solitude], which was published posthumously in an english translation in 2008 and in the original persian in 2010, both in...

Let G(xr − xe) be the causal Green function for the wave equation in four spacetime dimensions, representing the signal received at the spacetime point xr due to an impulse emitted at the spacetime point xe. Such emission and reception processes are highly idealized, since no signal can be emitted or received at a single (mathematical) point in space and time. We present a simple model for exte...

Great thanks are due to Khan et al1 for nicely addressing in their study the beneficial metabolic effects of Ramadan fasting (RF) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Though no studies assessing similar effects in patients with type 1 DM are yet present, the available data pointed out that RF is not harmful, and has no adverse effects on the heart, lung, liver, kidneys, eyes, hematol...