Khosrow Adeli Clinical Biochemistry, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8 Canada List of abbreviations: CALIPER, Canadian Laboratory Initiative on Pediatric Reference Intervals; RIDL, Reference Intervals and Decision Limits; IFCC, International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine; CLSI, Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute; GGT...

the basic issue in this article is to analyze the relationships of characters in nezami’s khosrow & shirin by using of greimas’s actors pattern. in nezami’s narrative we found the six actors that greimas mentioned; including: transmitter, recipient, subject, object, helper, and deterrent. according to the results of this article the transmitter is part of khosrow’s character – his unconsciousne...

The concept of "other" is one of the fundamental concepts of philosophy, especially in the twentieth century and in the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Levinas, which carriesepistemological and ontological importance. It was also introduced by Mikhail Bakhtin in the field of literature and literary theory. From another perspective, Naser Khosrow developed and introduced such a...

Note: In April 2012, a paper entitled “Impact of Quality Mentorship on Achievements of Shiraz Medical School in the 1970s and the Role of Professor Faramarz Ismail-Beigi” was published in Archives of Iranian Medicine. (Azizi MH, Nasseri-Moghaddam S. Impact of Quality Mentorship on Achievements of Shiraz Medical School in the 1970s and the Role of Professor Faramarz IsmailBeigi. Arch Iran Med. 2...

Personalization of e-commerce applications is an issue that is gaining increasing importance with the advancing maturity of such systems. There is already e-commerce software on the market offering integrated e-shop and personalization functions. However, the available software is too timeconsuming and expensive for SMEs. With this in mind we saw a need to investigate the potential for personal...

Researchers have attempted to augment the traditional cost/benefit analysis model used in the IT decision process. However, frequently social subsystem issues are inadequately considered. Survey data, collected from a U.S. sample of 200 executives, provides an empirical assessment of how these issues compare with other IT decision criteria given differing decision types. The social subsystem is...