* Foster: Brown University, 64 Waterman St, Providence, RI 02912; Guttierez, Centro de Investigacion Economica, ITAM. Camino a Sta. Teresa #930, Heroes de Padierna, Mexico, DF, CP 10700. Acknowledgement: This work was partially funded by FUDEF grant and by the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University. The PSTC receives core support from Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institut...

THE BROWN JOURNAL OF WORLD AFFAIRS Copyright © 2003 by the Brown Journal of World Affairs JONATHAN GRATCH researches at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies, focusing on creating realistic emotional behaviors for life-like simulated characters. STACY MARSELLA is research scientist and project leader at the University of Southern California’s Information Sc...

purpose : to determine the distribution of iris colors in the population of tehran and to assess possible associations between iris color and ocular disorder methods : through a stratified random cluster sampling approach, 160 clusters were selected in different municipality districts of tehran, and the approached households were invited to a clinic. after the initial interview, all participant...

In this study, we performed high throughput RNA sequencing at the preadipocyte (D0) and differentiated adipocyte (D7) stages of primary brown preadipocyte differentiation in order to characterize the transcriptional events regulating differentiation and function. Compared to the preadipocyte stage (D0), 6,668 genes were identified as differentially expressed genes (DEGs) with a fold change of ≥...

background: medical education and training can directly contribute to the development of psychological distress in medical students. this can lead to catastrophic consequences such as impaired academic performance, impaired competency, medical errors and attrition from medical school. this study aimed to assess the prevalence of psychological morbidity among iranian medical students. methods: t...

PURPOSE To report differences in the coloration of fundus lesions between Asian and Caucasian patients with bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation (BDUMP). CASES This syndrome was detected in 2 Japanese patients, 69 and 73 years old, with lung cancer who visited our department complaining of visual disturbances. The coloration of the fundus lesions was investigated in these 2 patie...

Brown Tumors are rare benign tumors that considered to be the end manifestation of hyperparathyroidism. They can clinically identified as localized palpable masses in any part skeleton. Radiological features vary according extent In this case report, we present a 24-year-old male on haemodialysis for stage renal disease, with brown tumor mandible and maxillary alveolus consequence longstanding ...