Patients with orthopedic injuries and nontraumatic musculoskeletal disorders compose a large portion of the more than 100 million patients who come to U.S. emergency departments (EDs) annually. Although only rarely life-threatening, orthopedic injuries may threaten a limb or its function, and accurate early diagnosis and treatment can avert long-term complications. Many of these injuries can an...

islamic medical jurisprudence, which is the subjectconcemed with the application of islamic laws to the area of medicine, has never been discussed as an independent field of jurisprudence, although several selected topics, especially those concerning food and beverages, sexuality, death, wounds and injuries, and doctor-patient relations have been more discussed than others. the results of an in...

one of the most important concerns of persian language and literature academy (farhangestaan) has been creating words in the specialized and general areas in different periods. the third academy has started word creation with the general area. since word making belongs to the area of morphology, it should follow its special principles. the writer of this paper presents the principles of morphol...

Asymptotic linearity plays a key role in estimation and testing in the presence of nuisance parameters. This property is established, in the very general context of a multivariate general linear model with elliptical VARMA errors, for the serial and nonserial multivariate rank statistics considered in Hallin and Paindaveine (2002a and b, 2004a) and Oja and Paindaveine (2004). These statistics, ...