Article Type Original Research Authors Mohebbati R.1 MSc, Abbsnezhad A.2 PhD, Khajavi Rad A.* MD, PhD, Mousavi S.M.1 MSc, Haghshenas M.1 MSc How to cite this article Mohebbati R, Abbsnezhad A, Khajavi Rad A, Mousavi S.M, Haghshenas M. Effect of Hydroalcholic Extract of Nigella sativa on DoxorubicinInduced Functional Damage of Kidney in Rats. Quarterly of the Horizon of Medical Sciences. 2016;22...

Four obligate cave fish species have been recorded from Zagros in Iran: Garra typhlops (Bruun and Kaiser, 1944), G. lorestanensis (Mousavi-Sabet Eagderi, 2016), tashanensis (Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust, Fatemi 2016) Eidinemacheilus smithi (Greenwood, 1976). So far, the only known locality of latter has Loven cave. Here, we extend range blind loach (E. smithi) by reporting a new locality, Tuveh sp...

This paper develops the first method for the exact simulation of reflected Brownian motion (RBM) with non-stationary drift and infinitesimal variance. The running time of generating exact samples of non-stationary RBM at any time t is uniformly bounded by O(1/γ̄2) where γ̄ is the average drift of the process. The method can be used as a guide for planning simulations of complex queueing systems w...

We present a fully nonparametric method to estimate the value function, via simulation, in the context of expected infinite-horizon discounted rewards for Markov chains. Estimating such value functions plays an important role in approximate dynamic programming. We incorporate “soft information” into the estimation algorithm, such as knowledge of convexity, monotonicity, or Lipchitz constants. I...

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women (DeVita, 2008) and early diagnosis is obviously the effective way for saving patients and plays an essential role to improve prognosis (Yarbrough and Braden, 2001; Lu, 2001). Iranian women are not excepted from this rule, as it has the high prevalence rate in Iran with increasing trend along recent decade (Center for Disease Control and Pr...

Globalization and market reforms have significantly facilitated urban transition and urbanization in the People’s Republic of China, greatly affecting the structural and spatial redistribution of Chinese cities since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949. Prior to the 1978 economic reforms, the system of cities created by the Maoist regime was dominated by large and extra-large cities b...

S. Ashraf Vaghefi, S. J. Mousavi, K. C. Abbaspour,* R. Srinivasan and H. Yang 1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 2 Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, PO Box 611, 8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland 3 Texas A&M University, Texas Agricultural Experimental Station, Spatial Science Lab, College Station, TX, 7...

This study examines the dominance of the D/H ratio as a design element for an enclosed urban square, long claimed by numerous urban designers. It claims that like the D/H ratio, other design elements significantly affect the perceptual quality of an enclosed square, but their impacts differ according to the context in which they are applied. The study reviews the literature pertaining to enclos...