this article aims to explore the role of the gender bias in the choice of address terms in some iranian contemporary stories. some address terms due to their gender distinctive functions refer either to men or women; however, as it has been observed the variability in the choice of some address forms or references are more or less due to the social status and values of the interactants in the t...

A correction was made to Generation of Prostate Cancer Patient Derived Xenograft Models from Circulating Tumor Cells. There was a spelling error in one of the authors' surname. The author's name was corrected from: Veronica Rodriquez-Bravo to: Veronica Rodriguez-Bravo.

OBJECTIVE Multifaceted evidence (family, twin, adoption, molecular genetic, geographic and surname studies of suicide) suggests genetic risk factors for suicide. Migrant studies are also informative in this context, but underused. In particular, a meta-analysis of the associations of immigrant (IMM) and country-of-birth (COB) suicide rates is unavailable. METHOD Thirty-three studies, reportin...

XI'AN, CHINA—The leaflet posted in the school of information engineering here at Xi'an Jiaotong University was brief but enticing, offering computer-savvy graduates a hefty stipend and the chance to serve their motherland. "I was curious," says Liu, who asked that only his surname be used in this article. It was the spring of 2007, and Liu, then 24 years old, was wrapping up a master's degree i...

Surname analysis is a potentially useful technique to detect population sub-structuring. The present study was conducted with the aim of assessing genetic heterogeneity among Rajputs of Kangra distt, Himachal Pradesh. Data was collected from individuals through interview schedule. Presence of only 19 surnames, isonymous marriages among 12 surnames and a higher Repeated Pair value (4.7 x 10) ove...

The following document is a compiled list of research based journal articles on gay, lesbian, and transgender populations. It is a valuable resource for instructors, students, researchers, and clinicians interested in this topic. This annotated bibliography can be useful in locating articles, incorporating information into courses, and becoming familiar with the special needs and issues of thes...

The family name 'Geodermatophilaceae' was first published by Normand et al. (1996) to contain the genera Geodermatophilus and Blastococcus, but a formal description and the designation of the type genus were not included, thus making the name invalid. Since then, the genus Modestobacter has been described as a member of the family 'Geodermatophilaceae' by Mevs et al. (2000). We hereby formally ...

Performance artist Laurie Anderson appropriated an idea from beat writer William Burroughs a few years back. Language, Anderson sings, is a virus.(1) The words we choose lock in ideas and discharge reverberations. They subtly evoke personal, professional, and societal power relationships. Language is a virus. By extension, changes of language can shift power relations. The removal of a conquest...

The surname of one of the authors and the affiliation of that author in the paper by Mohamed et al. [Acta Cryst. (2009), E66, m193-m194] are corrected.[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1107/S1600536809028955.].