Sir,?Regarding the " Geographical distribution of the Prostatectomy operation " as mentioned in the reports of the eight c:ises of Prostatectomy by Capt. E. Owen Thurston, F.R.c.s., Civil Surgeon, Gaya, in your issue for February 191)9, I beg to inform you that, during my one year's service at the Dhubri Hospital (Assam) under Capt. H. Gidney, F.R.C.S.E., I.M.S., I had the good fortune to come ...

the safavid dynasty was the first iranian centralized administration, which chose shia’a branch of islam as the official religion and the judicial system for iran. in safavi period the state officially established two separate and distinct court system. first the state courts (the urf courts) under the supervision of the secular minister of justice (divan-begi) and the secondly the islamic cour...

Sin,?In Dr. Freyer's contribution to the last number of the Gazette, he remarks on the extreme frequency with which cat aract is met with amongst the natives of this country. In the districts of Oudh, with which I am acquainted, this is not the case : the Gonda Sadr Dispensary, at which the out-door attendance averages 10,000 yearly, has been under the charge of a well qualified Assistant Surge...

In this paper we introduce SCARE the Spatio-Cultural Abductive Reasoning Engine which implements an algorithm that solves spatial abduction problems (Shakarian, Subrahmanian, and Sapino 2009). We review results of SCARE for activities by Iranian-sponsored “Special Groups” (Kagan, Kagan, and Pletka 2008) operating throughout the Baghdad urban area and compare these findings with experiments wher...

People can recognize the meaning or gist of a scene from a single glance, and a few recent studies have begun to examine the sorts of information that contribute to scene gist recognition. The authors of the present study used visual masking coupled with image manipulations (randomizing phase while maintaining the Fourier amplitude spectrum; random image structure evolution [RISE]; J. Sadr & P....

On the evening of the 13th July, Ashraf Beg, Musalman, aged 30 years, was admitted into hospital: twelve days before he fell from a mango tree and sustained Pott's fracture of the right ankle, was taken into the Mohuindi Branch Dispensary, but mortification setting in was sent into the Sadr; on arrival lie was in very low condition through fatigue and want of food; the right leg from the toes t...

We have developed a technique called RISE (Random Image Structure Evolution), by which one may systematically sample continuous paths in a high-dimensional image space. A basic RISE sequence depicts the evolution of an object's image from a random field, along with the reverse sequence which depicts the transformation of this image back into randomness. The processing steps are designed to ensu...

of Clinical Research Findings: Therapeutic and Historical Aspects David M. Novick, Mary Jeanne Kreek, Don C. Des Jarlais, Thomas J. Spira, Elizabeth T. Khuri, Jayanthi Ragunath, V. S. Kalyanaraman, Alvin M. Gelb, and Annatina Miescher 318 The Effects of Cannabis Use on the Clinical Condition of Schizophrenics Juan C. Negrete and Werner P. Knapp 321 A Stage Model of HTLV-111/LAV Infection in Int...