Background: Despite its effectiveness, there are still many concerns and questions about the principles and therapeutic methods of traditional medicine (TM). In other words, in order to accept TM as a reliable health care system, its proficiency need to be declared through modern scientific research. One of the major determinants of Persian medicine (PM) which is practically utilized in disease...

iran-france relations have gone through many ups and downs in the last three decades. yet, during the last few years and especially during the presidency of sarkozy, an unforeseen coldness dominated the relations between the two countries. it seems that recent events in the area and iran’s nuclear power profile accompanied by changes taken place especially in france’s approach to iran. this pap...

The concrete experience of physical warmth has been demonstrated to promote interpersonal warmth. This well-documented link, however, tells only half of the story. In the current study, we thus examined whether physical coldness can also increase interpersonal warmth under certain circumstances. We conducted three experiments to demonstrate that the relationship between the experience of physic...

The recently proposed continuum-kinematics-inspired peridynamics (CPD) is extended to account for thermo-mechanical coupling at large deformations. key features of CPD are that it geometrically exact and built upon multi-neighbour interactions. bond-based interactions the original PD formalism equivalent one-neighbour CPD. Two- three-neighbour interactions, however, fundamentally different from...

This research considers the impacts of racism on experiences racialized people, and how mindfulness compassion might serve as resources for their recovery resistance. Applying ecological theories mind critical phenomenology, study presents self-reported 30 adult organized into five focus groups practitioners teachers compassion, with four affinity (Indigenous, Black, South Asian, E./S.E. Asian)...

Mind-graphs define an associative-adaptive concept of managing information streams, like for example words within a conversation. Being composed of vertices (or cells; representing external stimuli like words) and undirected edges (or connections), mind-graphs adaptively reflect the strength of simultaneously occurring stimuli and allow a self-regulation through the interplay of an artificial ’...

Objective. To assess the short-term efficacy and safety of two kinds of Traditional Chinese herbal patches, Fufang Nanxing Zhitong Gao (FNZG) and Shangshi Jietong Gao (SJG), for painful knee osteoarthritis (OA). Methods. Patients were randomly enrolled in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study to receive FNZG (n = 60), SJG (n = 60), or placebo patch (n = 30) for 7 days. Outcome measures inclu...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to visualize the shunt flow of arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) passing towards the top side of the foot from the plantar artery. METHODS Colour-flow duplex Doppler ultrasonography was performed in 112 patients who consulted an outpatient clinic with varicose veins and/or symptoms such as foot oedema, dullness, cramp and coldness. Thirteen age-and sex-matc...

The Elemental Psychopathy Assessment (EPA) is a 178-item self-report measure designed to assess the basic elements of psychopathy from a Five-Factor Model perspective: Anger, Arrogance, Callousness, Coldness, Disobliged, Distrust, Dominance, Impersistence, Invulnerable, Manipulation, Opposition, Rashness, Self-Assurance, Self-Centered, Self-Contentment, Thrill-Seeking, Unconcern, and Urgency. T...