BACKGROUND Ayurveda, India's natural health care tradition, has a unique way of classifying human population based on individual constitution or prakriti. Ayurveda's tridosha theory identifies principles of motion (vata), metabolism (pitta), and structure (kapha) as discrete phenotypic groupings. Patwardhan et al. (2005) hypothesized in a paper published in this journal that there is a genetic ...

2 Foreword Foreword How can the automotive-specific language EAST-ADL contribute in solving present challenges in the development of automotive systems? Cornerstones of high quality embedded systems are mature engineering techniques using model-based development and standardized, reliable architectures. Industrial experience shows that model-based development techniques are required in the auto...

in the mid-1950s, regionalism rose in international literature. in the middle east and persian gulf regional issues draw attention of theorists in the late 1960s. at first, regionalism aimed to organize political will of regional leaders towards to organize political will, while regionalism in the middle east and persian gulf concentrated on the security affairs. this proves that the essence of...

Evidence was meant to deliver us from foolishness. The promoters of evidencebased medicine (EBM) assert, ‘Good doctors use both individual clinical expertise and the best available evidence, and that neither alone is enough.’1 This is to say they think good doctors need only expertise besides evidence. What though is this thing we call expertise? Surprisingly, an agreed definition of expertise ...

abstract west asia is a critical geopolitical region of eurasia. this region is a geographical center of crisis in all aspects. it is also an artificial term invented by the united states instead of the greater middle east. this geographical concept coves two regions stretching from the persian gulf to the caspian/ central asia. this region is recognized as the arab middle east, too. in the per...

Abstract Crop wild relatives (CWR) are important sources of adaptive diversity for plant breeding programmes. This paper aims to investigate the extent which centres crop origin/diversity congruent with areas high CWR diversity. We established predicted potential distributions 1,425 species related 167 crops using 334,527 known distribution locations and generated a global hotspot map. was then...

self-concept component and its relationship with family structure and perceived parental rearing practices was examined in a sample of 163 adolescents ( 87 girls and 76 boys, aged 16 years old) selected randomly from high schools in tabriz. the subjects completed tennessee self-concept scale with 84 items and a 77-item inventory measuring parental rearing practices. results revealed no signific...

the present paper aims at clarifying the role of the concept “walåyah” in the philosophy of the unity of being in islamic philosophy (waedat al-wujid). the concept “walåyah” is deeply built into the philosophic system of the islamic theory of being, and moreover the dynamic aspect of this concept has always activated islamic philosophy of existence and stimulated the thought of islamic philosop...