the article presents explanation and analysis of plotinus’ abstraction theology. in this theology he tries to get negative knowledge of the god. the meaning of the negation is neither of pure negation or privation but it is based on abstraction which purifies and abstracts one concept from else to attain the exact and true meaning of it. accordingly, this method of theology is the same as the r...

one of the key issues of migration concerns women’s migration. this article, examines the conditions of skilled immigrant women in ehran. qualitative method is used to collect the necessary data for this tudy. the research also conducts in-depth interview with 25 immigrate women residing in tehran. the results of the research show that migration decisions depend on multiple factors including la...

Introduction: Intentional swallowing of foreign objects is a relatively rare psychopathological behavior. Adolescents and young adults may carry out this act to hurt themselves or even suicide. Often, most reports related deliberate are typically either surgical gastrointestinal rarely found in psychiatric articles; more often, the swallowed (80 - 90%) disposed spontaneously, 10 20% them requir...

Insulin-induced hypoglycemia by unknown mechanism(s) increases plasma arginine vasopressin (AVP) levels in humans. Mechanisms for increased AVP levels during central nervous system glucoprivation were investigated by administering 20-min i.v. infusions of 2-deoxy-d-glucose (50 mg/kg), a competitive inhibitor of glucose utilization, or normal saline (sham), to 24 normal volunteers. Some of the i...

E pidemiological studies demonstrating an increase in cardiovascular disease in adult children born of women who suffered nutritional privation during World War II led to many subsequent studies, demonstrating that diverse conditions leading to intrauterine growth retardation had similar effects on cardiovascular disease including hypertension. 1 Relatively mild maternal protein deficiency lead...

ON this occasion, the 116th anniversary of Sir William Osler's birth, one is tempted to recount again the many significant contributions of this versatile physician, teacher, historian and bibliophile. However, I have chosen to discuss the accomplishments of his friend, Dr. John Shaw Billings, the first Librarian of the National Library of Medicine and to trace their relationship to books, comp...

0497 T he Battle of Trafalgar was a short-lasting but bloody affair. By the end of the afternoon of 21 October 1805, the French/ Spanish fl eet had lost 4,408 men, and a further 2,545 were wounded while the victorious British force suffered 455 dead and 1,242 wounded [1]. The British fl agship HMS Victory, where Admiral Horatio Nelson lost his life to a sniper's bullet, sustained 56 other death...

The present letter is a congruity study of ‘Toxicity in ChemotherapyWhen Less is more’ divulging the idea of integrating fasting or calorie restriction (CR) coinstantaneously with chemotherapy treatment that trotted out fasting as felicitous combination to optimizing efficacy in chemotherapy patients (Laviano and Fanelli, 2012). Not long ago, chemotherapy conspicuously exemplifies the most puis...