This is a brief celebratory overview of the fruitful life and scientific endeavors of Professor Ali Asghar Khodadoust (b.1935), a world renowned ophthalmologist, Persian icon of modern ophthalmology and an international pioneer of eye research. The global reputation of Dr. Khodadoust is rooted in his extensive studies on corneal diseases and transplantation biology. As a result of his truly des...

We were greatly saddened to hear the news of Professor Fereydoun Malekzadeh's death at age of 79 in September 9, 2012. Professor Malekzadeh was a distinguished and highly respected Iranian Microbiologist and a member of the editorial board of the Iranian Biomedical Journal since October 1997. He was born in 1933 in city of Tabriz in Province of Azarbaijan, Iran. After graduated from high school...

altered plans to provide a railway to Nova Scotia. A brush with ill health, and a consultation with William Osler, led Tupper to moderate his lifestyle. Having held several portfolios in the Cabinet, he "retired" to England as High Commissioner in 1884. But after Macdonald's death, Tupper was recalled to politics by his party and was appointed prime minister for a two-month period until his Gov...

Resume of previous work Knowles (1934) made the following observations in regard to the development of tolerance in monkey malaria. Between November' 1932 and August 1933, a Silenus rhesus monkey was given four injections with monkey plasmodium, treated each time with small doses of quinine, and developed a chronic infection, which apparently cleared up. On 7th August, 1933, it was given a 5th ...

APPLICATION OF NEW VARIATIONAL METHOD USING HAMILTONIAN FOR NONLINEAR OSCILLATORS WITH DISCONTINUITIES Muhammad Aslam Noor a , Waseem Asghar Khan a, b [email protected] [email protected] a: Department of mathematics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Sector-H-8/1, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan b: Department of Basic Sciences & Humanity, HITEC University Taxila Cantt. ABSTRACT: In ...

Background: A wide variety of cutaneous and mucosal lesions occur in renal transplant recipients. Objectives: Evaluation of the skin and mucous membrane lesions in the kidney transplant recipients in Noor and Ali Asghar Hospital in Isfahan. Patients and Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study was done on 117 patients (82 male, 35 female), who had received kidney transplants and re...

The intersection of law and science, particularly in relation to causality and the legal concept of causation, were of considerable interest to Sir Owen Dixon. In this article, revisiting Dixon's 1933 lecture "Science and Judicial Proceedings", the Chief Justice refers to Dixon's deep interest in science and the issues to which it can give rise in legal proceedings. The 1933 lecture followed sh...