Part of the unique cultural heritage of China is the Chinese couplet. Given a sentence (namely an antecedent clause), people reply with another sentence (namely a subsequent clause) equal in length. Moreover, a special phenomenon is that corresponding characters from the same position in the two clauses match each other by following certain constraints on semantic and/or syntactic relatedness. ...

Impact of teaching on dental knowledge in fifth standard MCD primary school children south DelhiFatima Chaudhary, Khalid Umer Khayyam, Mohd. Junaid Siddiqui, Rubi Anjum, Sazina Muzammil

BACKGROUND Few studies have attempted to understand the complexity of microbial populations in Pakistan where infectious diseases are prevalent. This study was undertaken to assess bacterial biodiversity in Nehr-e-Khayyam a heavily polluted stream connected to the Arabian Gulf, which runs through a densely populated urban area in Karachi, Pakistan. METHODS Employing a universal pair of oligon...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to identify any distinct behavioural patterns in switching between public and privately insured payment classifications between successive episodes of inpatient care within Western Australia between 1980 and 2001 using a novel 'couplet' method of analysing longitudinal data. METHODS The WA Data Linkage System was used to extract all hospital morbidity recor...

1. introduction khaghani shirvani is a well-known poet and one of the leading poets in the history of persian literature. all through his poetry books, there are numerous references to various scientific and technological terms that were popular at the time. in addition, the lyrics of khaghani abound with historical and religious allusions. his allusions to islamic and quranic narratives indica...

All tetrapods have the same four basic abdominal hypaxial muscle layers that wrap around the abdomen between the pelvis, ribcage, and spine. However, the marsupials and our immediate mammalian ancestors have epipubic bones extending anteriorly into the ventral hypaxial layers with two additional muscles connecting them to the ventral midline and femur. Studies of two marsupials have shown that ...