Today’s cities face many challenges due to population growth, aging population, pedestrian and vehicular traffic congestion, water usage increase, increased electricity demands, crumbling physical infrastructure of buildings, roads, water sewage, power grid, and declining health care services [13], [14]. Moreover, major trends indicate the global urbanization of society, and the associated pres...

More than 270 000 people are trapped in east Aleppo with dwindling supplies of food, water and fuel. Humanitarian organizations have not been allowed to deliver aid, including medical supplies from WHO since the besiegement of the city on 7 July. Within the past week, over 840 people have been injured, almost a third of them children, while the health facilities that would treat them are crumbl...

to compare the success of patients with ocular hypertension, secondary to pars plana vitrectomy and silicon oil tamponade, who had an ex-press glaucoma filtration device p50 (alcon laboratories, inc. fort worth, texas, usa) to those who had conventional trabeculectomy this study has been performed. the records of 10 eyes of 10 consecutive subjects who had ex-press implants and 9 eyes of 9 conse...

The purpose of this Article is to demonstrate that felon exclusion laws are not race neutral and that the application of the laws has a racially discriminatory effect, and to call for their abolition. The laws contribute to the erosion of citizenship rights for the individual African-American exfelon, and the undermining of the collective citizenship rights of the larger African-American commun...

Today, humans have remains that are other than physical, generated within and supported by new information communications technologies (ICTs). As with human remains of the past, these are variously attended to or ignored. In this article, which serves as the introduction to this special issue, we examine the reality, meaning and use of enduring digital remains of humans. We are specifically int...

objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of exendin-4 (ex-4) on differentiation of insulin-producing cells (ipcs) from rat bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (rat-bm-mscs). materials and methods: in this experimental study, rat-bm-mscs were cultured and the cells characterized by flow cytometry analysis of cell surface markers. rat-bm-mscs were subsequently treated wi...

‎let $pa$ be a commutative banach algebra and $ex$ be a left banach $pa$-module‎. ‎we study the set‎ ‎$dec_{pa}(ex)$ of all elements in $pa$ which induce a decomposable multiplication operator on $ex$‎. ‎in the case $ex=pa$‎, ‎$dec_{pa}(pa)$ is the well-known apostol algebra of $pa$‎. ‎we show that $dec_{pa}(ex)$ is intimately related with the largest spectrally separable subalgebra of $pa$ and...

Background and Objectives: Apoptosis plays a key role in pathogenesis of various cardiovascular diseases due to loss of terminally differentiated cardiac myocytes. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate effects of combined dietary restriction and aerobic training on indices of myocardial apoptosis in male rats. Materials and Methods: In this study, 32 three-month-old male rats wer...

Despite the preventative and therapeutic effects of regular exercise, exhaustive exercise may be harmful to health. The present study aimed to determine the protective effect of endurance training and cinnamon bark extract (CBE) supplementation on oxidative responses induced by an exhaustive exercise schedule in rats. The rats were randomly divided into the following five groups of 6; control s...