New Julfa is an area located in south of Zayanderud (life giving) River in Isfahan City; Central Iran. At first, it seems like any other areas in Iranian cities but a meticulous eye can find numerous differences. The domes and campaniles of thirteen Armenian Apostolic churches with their eclectic and unique combinations are visible for walkers and they form the visual difference. One can hear p...

A major disparity among African Americans is undiagnosed and uncontrolled hypertension. This exploratory study examined hypertension education and screening activities of 45 African American churches. A cross-sectional telephone survey was used to interview church representatives with knowledge of their church's health activities. Most churches (87%) offered at least 1 activity and 40% offered ...

Recently, some studies have utilized the Markov Decision Process for diversifying (MDP-DIV) the search results in information retrieval. Though promising performances can be delivered, MDP-DIV suffers from a very slow convergence, which hinders its usability in real applications. In this paper, we aim to promote the performance of MDPDIV by speeding up the convergence rate without much accuracy...

Cerebellar granule neurons isolated from postnatal day 7 (P7) rats and grown in normal K+ medium begin to degenerate at approximately 4 d in vitro (DIV) and die. To search for genes upregulated in the process of neuronal cell death, differential hybridization was performed with subtracted cDNA probes and a cDNA library from 5 DIV. One of the genes isolated was microglial response factor-1 (mrf-...

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