Most of the scientific staff of Iranian Transplantation wards and many colleagues who have been involving in transplantation from the Middle East, United States and other countries participated in this Congress. Shiraz, a group of people gather together to celebrate this great event. All Congress participants, chairmen of transplant wards, social and official managers of Shiraz and families of ...

PURPOSE We examined openly shared substance-related tweets to estimate prevalent sentiment around substance use and identify popular substance use activities. Additionally, we investigated associations between substance-related tweets and business characteristics and demographics at the zip code level. METHODS A total of 79,848,992 tweets were collected from 48 states in the continental Unite...

A woman as a mother in Indian society is subject of great reverence. The considered an embodiment the divine goddess. But due to pronatalist social structure, has less value outside marriage and motherhood. question arises here—as personified goddess, she equally valued her real life free make procreative choices independent Self? There continued inequality persistent sexism between men women t...

Postmodern theory and aesthetics have become a frequently discussed phenomenon in almost every field, especially since the 1980s. However, this appear with significant effect, field of literature art. Cinema has special place here. still maintains its existence by increasing effectiveness cinema. One factors that put aesthetic focus current discussions is undoubtedly contributions science ficti...

The emotion of pride has received complex and often opposing evaluations from scholars throughout history. On one hand, religious and philosophical thinkers have long decried the dangers of excessive pride, a view most famously put forth in the Biblical Proverb: "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall."' This negative view of pride was widespread among early Christian thi...

I HAVE NEVER YET won a debate with Felix Rapaport, partly because of my own ineptitude and perhaps partly because I would not want to win at the expense of such an old and good friend. Thus, I will summarize Felix's case for him although he has already eloquently done so. In brief, living donors are convenient, they provide a better biologic match on the average than can be achieved with cadave...

Social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google+) and information and communication technologies (ICT) more generally has altered human interaction. This technology provides tools for instantaneous communication and facilitates social organization. The participants in the uprisings of the Arab Spring used cell phones, text messages, Twitter and Facebook to circumvent and, in Tunisia and Egypt, top...

A Christian liberal arts education seeks to explore several fundamental questions: What does it mean to be human? For what purpose did God create us? How do we develop to our full human potential? What sets us free, liberates us, to be all that God intends us to be? In Genesis, we learn that to be human is to be created in the image of God; to bear the image of God. To be human is to rule over ...

FOR ABOUT three-quarters of a century, almost all academic discussion concerning Mussolini’s Fascism1 has tended to imagine the movement it animated, and the regime it informed, as entirely lacking a reasoned rationale. It early became commonplace to attribute to Fascism a unique irrationality, accompanied by a ready recourse to violence. Fascism, it has been argued, was full of emotion, but en...

Christian faith, theology and natural sciences are brought into conversation with each other to analyse different aspects of the dialogue between God his creation. The methodological approach consists bringing research results from documented in current publications as well philosophical considerations a faith. Furthermore, chronological development is given special attention. Both physical obs...