asthma control and quality of life are expected to be correlated. we aimed to evaluate the association of asthma control test (act) with asthma quality of life questionnaire (aqlq) and guideline based control assessment. we also aimed to investigate the impact of therapy adjustment according to act score on aqlq a total of 101 asthmatic patients were included. act, aqlq and global initiative fo...

Nails can act as a protective, defensive and beauty cover of the phalanges. The dermatologic disorders as well as the systemic diseases and trauma can produce change in the nails. Normal variations of nails are important to recognize and distinguish from nail diseases. There is not enough information about the prevalence of nail disorders in children. In this study, we have determined the preva...

with the adoption of article22 of the family supportact 1391, the  ceiling was determined for dowry. with this explanation that dowry  more than 110 is depending on the couple's wealth that the wife must prove her legal rights and less than 110 coinscovered by article 2 implementation of the financial convictions law that amendment to article 18 of the executive regulations, the principle ...

to evaluate the effect of cover crops, tillage systems and nitrogen (n) application rates on yield of forage sorghum (cv. kfs3), a factorial–spilt plot arrangement based on randomized complete block design with four replications was carried out at the research farms college of agriculture and natural resources, university of tehran, karaj, during the growing seasons of years 2005 and 2006. comb...

These notes started their life as a lecture given at the Toronto Student Seminar on February 9, 2012. The material is taken mostly from the classic paper by Coppersmith and Winograd [CW]. Other sources are §15.7 of Algebraic Complexity Theory [ACT], Stothers’s thesis [Sto], V. Williams’s recent paper [Wil], and the paper by Cohn at al. [CKSU]. Starred sections are the ones we didn’t have time t...

In an electronic integrated circuit, all of the necessary components are fabricated onto a single semiconductor, which eliminates the need for manual assembly of the individual transistors, capacitors, and resistors. Thorsen et al. (p. 580; see the cover) have now fabricated an analog in a microfluidics system with a set of individually addressable microvalves. Such a system can act as a fluidi...