BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of central nervous system (CNS) and is the most common cause of neurologic disability in young adults (20-40 years old). About 2.5 million patients all over the world are suffering from MS. Common symptoms of the disease include sensory disorders, optic neuritis, and limb weakness. Following disease progression, other symptoms...

the first season of survey at qeshm, carried out during the winter of 2006, resulted in the identification of nine sites from the parthian and sasanian periods. the surface pottery from these sites suggests their trade and cultural relations with contemporary sites in the southern persian gulf and other areas. for instance, the parthian and sasanian glazed types in qeshm island are closely re...

this study aims at ascertaining a framework that would account for the persian data. we scrutinize all data occurring in the selected corpus, and describe how they usually work on the basis of the two following variables: power and intimacy. according to our investigation, the use of terms of address in persian is affected by age, sex, occupation, ideology, political and social position of the ...

Abstract The following is an edited transcript of the opening plenary session Institute for World Literature in July 2020 – held online as a result Covid-19. In this conversation with IWL ’s director and associate director, Orhan Pamuk discusses his understanding world literature place it, ongoing work on novel Nights Plague , then nearing completion.

A hierarchical framework is proposed to address the issues of modeling different type of words in keyword spotting (KWS). Keyword models are built at various levels according to the availability of training set resources for each individual word. The proposed approach improves the performance of KWS even when no training speech is available for the keywords. It also suggests an easier way to co...

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BACKGROUND Pruritus is an unpleasant feeling that can cause the desire of scratching in a person and can be the symptoms of systemic, infectious, and neurological diseases. Pruritus is the most common clinical manifestation of skin diseases. Pruritus prevalence is 8-38% in the general population. Causes and treatments of pruritus have been described by traditional Persian medicine scientists. T...

About the Author Dr. Ibitayo is Clinical Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Arlington, College of Nursing, Arlington, Texas. Address correspondence to Kristina Ibitayo, PhD, RN, Clinical Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Arlington, College of Nursing, 411 S. Nedderman Drive, Box 19407, Arlington, TX 76019; e-mail: [email protected]. Received: October 18, 2010 Accepted: ...