Background: Craniospinal irradiation (CSI) of medulloblastoma poses technological challenges due to the involvement of large treatment volume. Commonly, the whole treatment length is covered with two different isocentric plans in which the junction is shifted after every five fractions to overcome the possibility of hot and cold spot.Objective: This study aims to evaluate dosimetrically and cli...

i am delighted to announce completion of the second issue of the new journal of “geopersia”, a product of the new era of replacing the persian language journals with specific english-language ones. our purpose is to provide a journal that offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of issues concerning geology subjects (i.e. sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, petroleum geology, engineering geo...

Internationally in secondary schools, lessons are typically taught by subject specialists, raising the question of how to accommodate teaching which bridges the sciences and humanities. This is the first study to look at how students make sense of the teaching they receive in two subjects (science and religious education [RE]) when one subject's curriculum explicitly refers to cross-disciplinar...

This paper studies the relation between activities, media and communication channels, and rerepresentation of AEC concepts in support of common ground building in cross-disciplinary, geographically distributed teams. AEC project team members determine the role of discipline-specific knowledge in a cross-disciplinary project-based environment. It is through cross-disciplinary interaction that th...

There is a growing global market in healthcare and patients. And while there is a small body of evidence emerging around this phenomenon commonly known as medical tourism there remain significant unanswered policy and research questions which need to be addressed. We outline some of the key issues set against the six key disciplinary preoccupations of the journal: epidemiology, health economics...

Background: The aim of this study was evaluation of developmental rate and Bax, Bcl-2 and ErbB4 genes expression following re-vitrification in compact and early blastocysts stages. Materials and Methods: 5-8 cell embryos were collected from female mature mice, 60-62 hours post hCG injection. The embryos were divided to five groups including: fresh, vitrified at 5-8 cells, vitrified at blastocys...