objectives: multiple sclerosis is an incurable and chronic disease of the central nervous system. the main purpose of this survey is to compare the character types and life expectancy of patients suffering from m. s as compared with normal people. this survey was conducted using the persian translation of neo-ffi (neo-five factor inventory) and herth life expectancy. methods:thirty nine people ...

The conformations of eight neo-confused porphyrin (neo-CP) structures and seven related benzo-neo-confused porphyrins (B-neo-CPs) were minimized using DFT-B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p). In addition, in order to provide contrasts to the B-neo-CP tautomers, a series of twelve benzoporphyrin (BP) tautomers and twelve benzocarbaporphyrins (BCPs) were also analyzed, and two N-confused porphyrin (NCP) tautomer...

Positive and negative features of the Copenhagen interpretation are discussed. As positive features can be mentioned its pragmatism and its awareness of the crucial role of measurement. However, the main part of the contribution is devoted to the negative features, to wit, its pragmatism (once again), its confounding of preparation and measurement, its classical account of measurement, its comp...

INTRODUCTION. Adjectives such as tall get a high degree meaning when used in isolation. Thus, John is tall does not simply mean that John has (a certain) height, but rather that he is taller than average. This led Cresswell (1976) to argue that gradable adjectives are relations between individuals and degrees and to postulate the operator pos which binds the degree variable of the adjective whe...

The structure and psychometric characteristics of the NEO Personality Inventory-3 (NEO-PI-3), a more readable version of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R), are examined and compared with NEO-PI-R characteristics using data from college student observer ratings of 5,109 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years from 24 cultures. Replacement items in the PI-3 showed on average stronger item-...

STUDY AIMS 2(S)-neopincirin (NEO) is a constituent from of Clinopodium mexicanum, which is used in traditional Mexican herbal medicine for its tranquilizing and analgesic properties. This study investigated the anxiolytic-like, sedative and antinociceptive effects of NEO in several mice models. MATERIAL AND METHODS The anxiolytic-like effect was evaluated in the hole-board (HBT) and Open Fiel...

Causal powers, say, an electron’s power to repel other electrons, are had in virtue of having properties. Electrons repel other electrons because they are negatively charged. One’s views about causal powers are shaped by—and shape—one’s views concerning properties, causation, laws of nature and modality. It is no surprise, then, that views about the nature of causal powers are generally embedde...

We have studied patterns of DNA sequence variation and evolution for 22 genes located on the neo-X and neo-Y chromosomes of Drosophila miranda. As found previously, nucleotide site diversity is greatly reduced on the neo-Y chromosome, with a severely distorted frequency spectrum. There is also an accelerated rate of amino-acid sequence evolution on the neo-Y chromosome. Comparisons of nonsynony...

Chia-Hao Cheng, Ching-Ho Chang, and Hwei-yu Chang (2011) Early-stage evolution of the neo-Y chromosome in Drosophila albomicans. Zoological Studies 50(3): 338-349. Numerous theories have specified that an originally autosomal neo-Y chromosome arm is expected to undergo degenerative evolution. Neosex chromosomes of Drosophila albomicans originated from 2 Robertsonian translocation events, one fo...

This paper examines the points of disagreement between Neo-Darwinian and recent Neo-Aristotelian discussions of the status of purposive language in biology. I discuss recent Neo-Darwinian "evolutionary" treatments and distinguish three ways to deal with the philosophical status of teleological language of purpose: teleological error theory, methodological teleology, and Darwinian teleological r...