In this article major ancient Buddhist meditation techniques, samatha, vipassana, Zen, and ton-len, will be described in reference to contemporary clinical hypnosis. In so doing, the Eastern healing framework out of which these techniques emerged is examined in comparison with and in contrast to its Western counterpart. A growing body of empirical literature shows that meditation and hypnosis h...

Adult intussusception is a relatively infrequent, but well documented entity in the Western surgical literature, where the majorities of cases is caused by tumors and require resection. In Africa and other tropical locations, however, other causes of adult intussusceptions predominate and must be considered. As Western trained surgeons increasingly volunteer in developing countries it is impera...

background: mixed infection with amphistomes seems common in native cattle of iran. the aim of this study was to determine diagnostic antigens in cattle mixed amphistomiasis. methods: specific antigens of cotylophoron cotylophorum , gastrothylax crumenifer and paramphisto­mum cervi (mixed infection), the most common species, were collected from cattle was deter­mined. adult trematodes were coll...

many of scholars think that the term of style has two types: verbal style and semantic style. since the meaning of style in islamic approach is different from  that of  western approach, so we have too many different definitions of style. undoubtedly the elements of literary style also are different in islamic approach from the western approach. meanwhile the effective elements in islamic liter...

The last decade has ushered in a rapidly expanding global discussion regarding acellular dermal matrix (ADM) applications, economic analyses, technical considerations, benefits, and risks, with recent emphasis on ADM use in breast surgery. This study aims to evaluate global trends in ADM research using bibliometric analysis. The top nine Plastic Surgery journals were determined by impact factor...

parvin e'tesami is one of the famous outstanding persian poets of the constitutional era and also the reign of pahlavi i who composed her poems based on persian classical literature with moral contents and new political and social themes in the field of didactic literature. under the influence of european newfangled intellectuals, romanticism formed during 18th century and devided into dif...

background and aims: hiv is spreading rapidly among people word wide. infection with this virus leads to immune suppression and finally acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids).early hiv detection is depended on antibody screening against virus by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (elisa).some confirmatory tests such as western blot and recombinant immunobloting assay (riba), are used to veri...

serological methods are commonly used methods for detection of viruses. preparation of pure viral antigens is a crucial step in production of antibodies required for serological studies. in this research the gene encoding coat protein of a beet western yellows virus (bwyv) isolate from iran was amplified by pcr and was ligated into a bacterial expression vector (pet26b) to obtain pet-bwyv-cp cl...