Nasir Khosrow embarks upon a seven year journey in order to come to terms with his spiritual crisis. The quest was the inevitable outcome of the tensions and conflicts between Nasir and the institutionalized forms of power and knowledge. The tensions lead to the formation of a series of binary oppositions—verbal and nonverbal—within the text of his travelogue. The researchers have analyzed the ...

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Dr. George Alexandrakis for giving me this great opportunity in pursuing my interests in biomedical engineering. His continuous advice and support have been a great help throughout my research. I am sincerely grateful to Dr. Khosrow Behbehani for his time and advice on both my project and schoolwork. I would like to also thank Dr. Hanli Liu for her sup...

The PSA and hK2 genes are known to be regulated by androgens and progestins in vitro. To detennine if this also occurs in vivo, plasma and urinary PSA and hK2 were immunoassayed in 32 fernale-to-male transsexuals before, at 4 and at 12 months of testosterone treatment, as well as in 3 groups of rnale-tofernale transsexuals undergoing 3 types of androgen-suppressing therapy. Due to testosterone,...

AndrogenDeprivation Therapy and Subsequent Dementia To the Editor To date, only a few reports in the literature provide clinical evidence for the role of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in the risk of dementia.1-3 Among these 3 studies, only the study by Nead et al1 reported a positive association between ADT and the risk of dementia. To explain the discrepancy in the hazard ratio (HR), a be...

following the death of nader shah afshar, the province of kurdistan, with sanandaj being the capital, ruled by the local influential dynasty of ardalan, underwent a severe power struggle triggered by pretenders to the government of iran, just as many other provinces experienced a similar power struggle. in addition, the strategic location of kurdistan as the closest neighboring province of otto...

nasir khosrow embarks upon a seven year journey in order to come to terms with his spiritual crisis. the quest was the inevitable outcome of the tensions and conflicts between nasir and the institutionalized forms of power and knowledge. the tensions lead to the formation of a series of binary oppositions—verbal and nonverbal—within the text of his travelogue. the researchers have analyzed the ...

nasir khosrow embarks upon a seven year journey in order to come to terms with his spiritual crisis. the quest was the inevitable outcome of the tensions and conflicts between nasir and the institutionalized forms of power and knowledge. the tensions lead to the formation of a series of binary oppositions—verbal and nonverbal—within the text of his travelogue. the researchers have analyzed the ...

Background Recently, awareness has raised regarding JAK inhibitor safety in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), particular with tofacitinib. Indeed, a trial involving more than 4,000 patients (ORAL Surveillance), numerically higher number of major cardiovascular events (MACEs) treated tofacitinib compared to anti-TNF (1), and risk venous thromboembolic (VTE) 10mg twice day 5mg or was observed. This incr...