farzaneh nassirzadeh (ph.d) farhad karimipour

4 Endoscopic Dacryocystorhinostomy Farhad

Many accessory lacrimal glands can be found along the inner surface of the eyelids. A variable number of thin-walled excretory ducts, blood vessels, lymphatics, and nerves pass from the main orbital gland into these accessory lacrimal glands. The ducts continue downward, and about 12 of them empty into the conjunctival fornix approximately 5 mm above the superior margin of the upper tarsus. Bec...

Classic therapies revisited Mechanical ventilation : simplifying the terminology Farhad Kapadia

There is presently considerable ambiguity and confusion relating to ventilator terminology. This can be eliminated using a simple approach, visualising mechanical ventilation as an inspiratory pump, and defining trigger, limit, and cycling in this context. The trigger is the signal that starts a breath by opening the inspiratory valve, the limit is the factor which controls the way gas flows in...

PhD Candidate

PhD Thesis

PhD Dissertation

Self-Adaptive Software systems (SAS) adapt at run-time in response to changes in user’s needs, operating contexts, and resource availability, by requiring minimal to no involvement of system administrators. The ever-greater reliance on software with qualities such as flexibility and easy integrability, and the associated increase of design and maintenance effort, is raising the interest towards...

PhD supervisor-student relationship

Dear Editor, The relationship between the PhD supervisorand the PhD student is a complex one. Whenthis relationship is neither effective nor efficient,it may yield negative consequences, such asacademic failure (1).The intricacy of the supervisor-studentrelationship may be in part comparable to the onebetween the physician and his/her patient [see,for example (2)]. Both interactions develop ove...