This study examines a sharp decline of school attendance among white children in the Southern US after the Civil War. According to Census data, the school-attendance rate among whites in the Confederate states declined by almost half from 1860 to 1870, whereas that in the Northern states was approximately stable. This shock left the South approximately three decades behind its antebellum trend....

The movement of macromolecules in cells is assumed to occur either through active transport or by diffusion. However, the determination of the diffusion coefficients in cells using fluctuation methods or FRAP frequently give diffusion coefficient that are orders of magnitude smaller than the diffusion coefficients measured for the same macromolecule in solution. It is assumed that the cell inte...

kephalaia, counts to the important sources of manichaean. it is written in coptic by the christians of north africa, which have converted to this faith. mani is called in this book “the apostle” and sometimes “the enlightener”. each chapter resembles to christ sermons. the disciple asks a question, and he gets the answer from the apostle. this is what each chapter is normally based on. creation...

PURPOSE To investigate the effects of lenticule creation and subsequent corneal lenticule extraction on corneal deformation parameters during small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) procedure. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this prospective study, 18 eyes of 10 patients (27.90 ± 7.11 years, -5.64 ± 2.45 diopters) scheduled for SMILE procedure were enrolled. Changes in the corneal deformation pa...

BACKGROUND The transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent-shunt (TIPSS) builds a shortcut between the portal vein and a liver vein, and represents a sophisticated alternative to open surgery in the management of portal hypertension or its complications. OBJECTIVES To describe clinical experiences with a low-profile nitinol stent system in TIPSS creation, and to assess primary and long-term...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate the role of social capital in the motivation of students for job creation. the statistical population of this study included all students of islamic azad university of karaj (n=3200) that 178 cases of these students were selected as research samples according to the cochran formula. data were collected by using a regulated questionnaire whose co...