Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation was started in 1972 as an eight bedded department of genitourinary surgery in a government hospital by its pioneer and present director Syed Adib ul Hassan Rizvi. Responding to the socioeconomic dynamics and the needs of the patient population the facility grew into the largest tertiary care Urology, Nephrology, and Transplant center of south Asia....

Given a model M and a temporal logic formula φ[?], where ? is a placeholder, the query checking problem, as defined for the case of CTL by Chan in 2000, is to find the strongest propositional formula f such that M |= φ[? ← f ]. The motivation for solving this problem is, among other things, to get insight on the model. We consider various objectives to the LTL query-checking problem, and study ...

A Comparison in Reading Ability and Achievement between Mono-Lingual and Bilingual Fifth Graders Y. Adib, Ph.D. Z. Sharifi N. Mahmoodi To  compare both the reading ability and academic achievement among Farsi speaking mono-lingual fifth graders and their bilingual Aazari and Kordi counterparts, three samples of 153, 132, and 145 (total 430) such students from three cities o...

The Effect of Blended Method of Teaching on Outputs of Learning Quran among Honor High School Students E. FathiAazar, Ph.D. T. Haashemi, Ph.D. Y. Adib, Ph.D. Sh. Vaahedi, Ph.D. S.M. Tabaatabaa’ee To determine the effect of the blended method of teaching on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes learned in the high school Quran course, with the mediating effect of learnin...

Waiting in long queue is undesirable due to which in some practical situations customers become impatient and leave the system. In such cases providing additional servers can reduce long queue. This investigation deals with multi-server queueing system with additional servers and discouragement. The customers arrive in poisson fashion and are served exponentially by a pool of permanent and addi...

Treatment of chicken blood smears and semithin sections from Epon-embedded mouse tissues with aqueous solutions of the 3-aminonaphthalimides FA-142, FA-2043, and FA-2143 induced a strong green-yellow fluorescence of chromatin under violet or violet-blue excitation. Chromatin emission was abolished by previous DNase or hot TCA treatment. The use of 3-methoxy (FA-655) and 3-nitro derivatives (M-4...

comparing the preventive effect of adhesive tape and eye ointment on eye dryness and corneal abrasion in icu patients     sharifi tabar z [1] , shaeri m [2] , nazari r [3] , adib hajbagari m [4] , masoudi alvi n [5]     received: 29 feb , 2012 accepted: 04 jun , 2012     abstract   background & aims : eye complications are common in intensive care units’ patients. different methods are recommen...