objective: although smoking increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases, its quitting leads to weight gain due to increased appetite. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of face to face dietary counseling on metabolic syndrome (mets) indices in cigarette quitter. materials and methods: this 9-week parallel randomized clinical trial was conducted by participation of 50 patients wi...

Objective(s): Considering the lack of information, the effects of mild endurance exercise plus blood flow restriction (BFR) on electrocardiographic parameters, hypertrophy index, and expression of angiotensin II receptors type 1 (AT1R) and type 2 (AT2R) and apelin receptor (APJ) were assessed in hearts of old male rats.Materials and Methods: Animal were grouped as control (CTL), Sham (Sh), lowe...

This paper reviews an important period in the use of cryptographic methods in Mexican History, the Mexican Revolution from 1910–1916. As is the case in any civil war, there were many groups in conflict. Among several leaders in theMexican Revolution, it is worth mentioning Porfirio Dı́az, Francisco I. Madero and Venustiano Carranza. They represent three main groups which used characteristic cryp...

The historic relation between Frege and ‘Frege’s principle’ is investigated. What did Frege intend with the principle, did he change his opinion concerning it, did he invent the principle? Johan van Benthem did twenty years ago reseach on another aspect of Frege’s work and some of his opinions are confirmed by the present research. His pregnant formulations and suggestive metaphors are quoted w...

SHORTLY BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION the English philosopher John Locke put forward a theory of property that reflected the emerging capitalist system. This theory has often been interpreted as supposing that we, the human race, live on a frontier with the natural world, looking across to plentiful resources in an as yet un-tamed and un-owned wilderness. In the 1960s Kenneth Boulding, an ec...

This article focuses on the analysis of public opinions of the Ukrainian people on the nature, character, and characteristics of the citizens’ political activism during the Orange Revolution. The author analyzes data from the annual nationwide representative survey, conducted by the Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in February–March 2005. The time lag allows for t...

The bebop style of jazz is a pivotal invention in twentieth-century American popular music an outgrowth of the rhythmic and harmonic experiments of young African-American jazz musicians. At first a source of controversy because of its unorthodox approach, bebop eventually gained widespread acceptance as the foundation of "modern" jazz, and it continues to influence jazz musicians. The process o...

Th e U nfi ni sh ed R ev ol ut io n B rin gi ng O pp or tu ni ty, G oo d Jo bs A nd G re at er W ea lth T o Al l T un isi an s The Unfinished Revolution Bringing Opportunity, Good Jobs And Greater Wealth To All Tunisians Until 2010 Tunisia appeared to be doing well and was heralded by the World Bank and the IMF as a role model for other developing countries, and the World Economic Forum repeate...

In this paper, I argue that John Dewey's view of human nature entails that culture is a necessary but not sufficient condition for freedom. A surprising corollary of this argument is that, if left to run its natural course, culture in fact tends not to enable but rather to preclude freedom. Hence, there are specific cultural practices—habits acquired through education—that are required if we ar...

Margaret Preston, an Australian painter, has been credited as the first nonanthropologist to begin to explore Australian Aboriginal art as an art. Preston saw in Aboriginal painting the well-spring for an ‘indigenous art of Australia’. The seeking of a national identity, and specifically a connection with place, is common to many if not most societies, reflecting a Herderian idea of art, langua...