the information obtained from written sources, archaeological limited surface excavations and surveys as well as environmental studies in sassanid towns have made their spatial characteristics clear to some extent and become effective in determination of functional and visual identity of these cities. nevertheless, there are still a lot of cities from this period which their names listed in wri...

jondishapour school was the first center of cultural transmission in the world among various civilizations like the greek, syriac, hindi, chinese and roman formed by permissive policies of khosro anushirvan in iran. the idea that iranian knowledge can be flourished with the help of progress made in science in different cultures was, for the first time, suggested by khosro anushirvan and his com...

by regarding the rest of pictorial and written documents of sassanid and sogdian art – sogdiana was one of the states under the supervision of sassanid emperors at many different period - this research is going tosurvey the effects of sassanid art on the sogdian mural paintings; the statistic category of this research is 3 sample of sassanid stone relief and mural painting as well as 6 sample o...

or more social situations in which the person is exposed to possible scrutiny by others and fears that he or she may do something or act in a way that will be humiliating or embarrassing (APA, 2000). Studies on the course and treatment of social phobia in Spanish children and adolescents are few (Rosa, Olivares, & Iniesta, 2009). One reason may be that there are few assessment and diagnostic in...

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Background: A suboptimal vitamin D and calcium status has been associated with higher risk of type 2 diabetes in observational studies, but evidence from trials is lacking. Objective: We determined whether vitamin D supplementation, with or without calcium, improved glucose homeostasis in adults at high risk of diabetes. Design: Ninety-two adults were randomly assigned in a 2-by-2 factorial-des...

Studying infectious diseases requires suitable hosts for experimental in vivo infections.Recent yearshaveseen theadvent ofmanyalternatives to murine infection models. However, the use of non-mammalian models is still controversial because it is often unclear howwell findings from these systems predict virulence potential in humans or other mammals. Here, we compare the commonly used models, fru...