California has a new hit: the state's new Academy of Sciences building in San Francisco has been drawing increasing plaudits from both professionals and the public alike. With the strictest of environmental demands, architect Renzo Piano has created a building " that is visually and functionally linked to its natural surroundings, metaphorically lifting up a piece of the park and putting a buil...

Prior to answering the above questions we need to clarify what is meant by play. Many books have been written on this subject but each author defines play somewhat differently. So do dictionaries. The Oxford Dictionary defines play as 'spontaneous activity of children or young animals', the Chambers English dictionary as 'acts not part of the immediate business of life, but in mimicry or rehear...

Introduction: This report presents 2011-2012 data on leading causes of death in the Islamic Republic of Iran by Province. Methods: Data in this report are based on information from all death certificates filed in the 31 provinces in 2011-2012 . Causes of death classified by the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD–10) are ranked a...

We discuss possible large contributions to B → X s γ, which can occur at the next-to-leading order in supersymmetric models. They can originate from terms enhanced by tan β factors, when the ratio between the two Higgs vacuum expectation values is large, or by logarithm of M susy /M W , when the supersymmetric particles are considerably heavier than the W boson. We give compact formulae which i...

Sri Lanka has made much progress in the elimination of leprosy. The Multi Drug Therapy (MDT) recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) 1 was introduced and expanded from 1982. A social marketing campaign, an awareness campaign to educate the general public about the early signs of leprosy and dispel misconceptions about the disease, was launched in 1990 2,3,4 . These have resulted in a...

introduction: the successful practice of dentistry, including endodontics, relies on a wide spectrum of dental research. the quantity and quality of research evidence in endodontics have seldom been evaluated. the aim of this study was to evaluate the level of evidence in current leading endodontic journals. materials and methods: all the articles published in 2000, 2006 and 2010 in two major e...