Dear Sirs, The term “aspirin resistance” (1) has been used to describe a number of different phenomena, including inability of aspirin to: (i) protect against cardiovascular events despite its regular intake; (ii) to affect various laboratory tests, reflecting platelet activity. Indeed, there is a good evidence to indicate that there are subpopulations which do not respond to antithrombotic act...

Luis G. Melo, Alok S. Pachori, Deling Kong, Massimiliano Gnecchi, Kai Wang, Richard E. Myocardium : Reasons for Cautious Optimism Molecular and Cell-Based Therapies for Protection, Rescue, and Repair of Ischemic Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 2004 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Aven...

Objective: The present study examines the relationships among reasons for drinking, alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related consequences in two college-aged samples. Personal motivators such as mood enhancement and coping (tension reduction) have consistently been shown to predict problematic alcohol use, but because of the salient nature of social drinking in college, we hypothesized that soc...

Practical reasons play a central role in our everyday discourse about action and there is no major ethical theory into which the concept of reasons for action does not play a crucial role. However, the nature of reasons for acting is not well understood. Th e aim of the present essay is therefore to clarify the notion of justifi catory reasons for action. To accomplish this, I start, after some...

background acupuncture has recently received considerable attention around the world due to its cost-effectiveness, few side effects, and well-established analgesic properties. objectives the present study aimed to identify the factors that might lead to using acupuncture for pain relief. patients and methods this qualitative study was conducted using conventional content analysis method. the s...

background and objectives: questionnaire-based survey is the most common way of assessing patient satisfaction. however, most relevant survey instruments have been developed in western countries, and valid and reliable context-specific survey tools in this area are lacking. to help filling this gap, in this study we have developed and validated the preliminary version of the novel brief inpatie...

Numerous reasons for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system acquisitions in organizations have been proposed in the prior research. In this paper these different reasons for ERP system acquisitions are synthesized and categorized into technological and business reasons. Further, the prevalence of the different reasons is explored with an empirical data concerning the ERP acquisition in 41 Fi...

Background The androgen receptor (AR) gene contains a polymorphic trinucleotide repeat that encodes a polyglutamine tract in its N-terminal transactivation domain (NTAD). We aimed to find a correlation between the length of this polymorphic tract and azoospermia or oligozoospermia in infertile men living in Khuzestan, Iran. MaterialsAndMethods In this case-control study during two years till 20...

I argue that Davidson’s conception of motivating reasons as belief-desire pairs suggests a model normative for action is superior to the orthodox according which are propositions, facts, or truth-makers such facts.

four reasons for attending in-service training courses were identified: the need for advancement, the need for acquiring occupational skills, cultural factors, and economic reasons and then the opinions of 135 teachers (85 males and 77 females) were surveyed regarding their ranked importance. the sample was randomly selected from among all teachers attending the in-service training centers in t...