Primary malignant melanoma of the oral cavity is a rare neoplasm, especially on the tongue. We report a case of mucosal melanoma at the base of the tongue, an extremely rare location (only about 30 cases have been reported in literature). The extension study doesn´t revealed distant metastatic lesions. The patient was treated by subtotal glossectomy and bilateral functional neck dissection. Ton...

the celebrated poem of ahmad hatif of isfahn, known in persian as the hatef’s tarjiband is studied in the present paper from a historical point of view to reveal the status of this poet in persian poetry, as well as its mystical content. first a short history of tarjiband as a poetic form is revised, then the sixteen poets who have written a mystical tarjiband are presented. all of these tarj...

Technologies are evolving at an astounding rate. Due to this, platforms and services provided over the past few years have become outdated in the current world. The very evolution of the internet and web platform has been extremely fast paced and we are currently in the web 2.0 iteration. One of the primary contenders for the next iteration of the web platform is the semantic web technology (We...

Mass tourism, which may lead to environmental problems, cultural and social degradation, distortion of economic benefits and disease, particularly in poorer countries, provides financial reasons for preserving cultural, historical and natural resources or traditions, which otherwise may be neglected. Vanuatu, is a less developed country (LDC), reliant on tourism for such benefits. Therefore, th...

Image segmentation is still a crucial problem in image processing. It hasn yet been solved very well. In this study, we propose a novel multi-level thresholding image segmentation method based on PSNR using artificial bee colony algorithm (ABCA). PSNR is considered as an objective function of ABCA. The multi-level thresholds (t*1, t*2 ,...., t*n-1, t*n) are those maximizing the PSNR. We compare...

Central MessageSmoking status may portend a different tumor biology in NSCLC.See Article page 1903. Smoking NSCLC. See Non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains major public health problem, accounting for 25% of all cancer-related deaths.1Siegel R.L. Miller K.D. Jemal A. Cancer statistics, 2018.CA J Clin. 2018; 68: 7-30Crossref PubMed Scopus (5336) Google Scholar Our knowledge the epidemiology...