purpose: to evaluate the range of accommodation lag and it's signs and symptoms in 20-25 year-old female students at zahedan medical school, iran. methods: three-hundred female students were enrolled for assessment of accommodation. after exclusion of individuals with individuals with accommodation disorders in 3 steps including amplitude of accommodation, accommodative facility, and relat...

An important argument in favor of the encyclical theory of the epistle to the Ephesians is based upon the peculiarities found in the epistle itself. Yet these unusual features (e.g., the lack of personal greetings, the unusual statements in 1:15, 3:2, and 4:21, etc.) can all be satisfactorily explained in the light of an original Ephesian destination. After an examination of early scribal habit...

Natural selection is an important factor influencing variation in the human genome, but most genetic studies of natural selection have focused on variants with unknown phenotypic associations. This trend is changing. New studies are rapidly revealing the effects of natural selection on genetic variants of known or likely functional importance.

: Travel writing becomes an object of scholarly scrutiny thanks to Edward Said’s Orientalism in which he contends that travel narratives are not the objective portraits Oriental peoples and loci, but collude with justify foster Western Empires. Nonetheless, scholars such as Behdad Blanton disagree view, asserting writers can transcend rigid norms Orientalism. Thus, by employing Behdad’s Blanton...

Many new public sector collaborations exhibit the characteristics of Shared Service Organizations (SSO). Public Safety Networks (PSNs) are receiving more attention and priority in the United States as the country deals with ever increasing threats from terrorism and natural disasters. As a network of independent, collaborating, safety agencies, supported by an information and communications tec...

Groups with commuting inner mappings are of nilpotency class at most two, but there exist loops with commuting inner mappings and of nilpotency class higher than two, called loops of Csörgő type. In order to obtain small loops of Csörgő type, we expand our programme from Explicit constructions of loops with commuting inner mappings, European J. Combin. 29 (2008), 1662–1681, and analyze the foll...

Traffic signs are effective only when users clearly understand their meaning. This paper reviews recent studies concerning traffic sign comprehension and finds that unsatisfactory comprehension is a common problem for drivers in many countries. The influence of user characteristics and sign cognitive features on understanding levels are summarized and discussed. While the positive relation betw...

This paper measures the technological significance of voluntary standard setting organizations (SSOs) by examining citations to patents disclosed in the standard setting process. We find that SSO patents are cited far more frequently than a set of control patents, and that SSO patents receive citations for a much longer period of time. Furthermore, we find a significant correlation between cita...