no less vital than his earlier works. Once again he tells us that there are no problem children? only problem parents. Mr. Neill is sincere and alive; he knows what he believes and is not afraid to say so. There is so much that is good in what he says, that it seems a pity he should spoil so much of his work by expressing half-truths in a somewhat dogmatic fashion. Few would disagree with his s...

Holt-Oram syndrome (HOS) is a developmental disorder inherited in an autosomal-dominant pattern. Affected organs are the heart and forelimbs with upper extremity skeletal defects and congenital heart malformation. In this study we present three cases of HOS in the same family. In one of these three individuals we detected a transition of C to T (CTG-GTT, V205V) in exon 7 of the TBX5 gene. This ...

We've all worked with highly competent people who are held back by a seemingly fatal personality flaw. One person takes on too much work; another sees the downside in every proposed change; a third pushes people out of the way. At best, people with these "bad habits" create their own glass ceilings, which limit their success and their contributions to the company. At worst, they destroy their o...

The element-free Galerkin method is employed for two-dimensional analysis of steady-state heat transfer. The unknown response of the system, i.e. temperature is approximated using the moving least squares technique. Numerical integration of governing simultaneous system of equations is performed by Gauss quadrature and new modified nodal integration techniques. Numerical examples and tests have...

trend- setting for the field of persian language and literature is the subject of the present paper. the author believes in setting of such a trend, and criticizes the reasons of opposing ones, citing his own proofs. he also enumerates his considerations about trend-setting circumstances at the end. trend- setting for the field of persian language and literature is the subject of the present pa...

The Probabilistic Method is one of the most significant contributions of Paul Erdős. Indeed, Paul himself said, during his 80th birthday conference in Keszthely, Hungary, that he believes the method will live long after him. This has been the only time I have heard him making any comment about the significance and impact of his work. He has always been more interested in discussing new problems...

Four studies examine status conferral (decisions about to whom positions of status and power should be given). All of the studies show that people confer more status to targets who express anger than to targets who express sadness. In the first study, participants watched a video of President Clinton expressing either anger or sadness when talking about the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Those who sa...

half the width of a piano string right at the top of the keyboard, he said. But Dawkins was keen to highlight the core of Darwin's natural selection. " The amount of suffering in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to say this, millions of animals are running for their lives, whimpering with fear. Thousands are dying from starvation or diseas...

an 11-year-old boy was referred to us for further investigation because he had dysmorphic features and was mentally challenged. he was the first child of healthy, non-consanguineous parents. he was born with a low birth weight of 1300g, length of 44cm and a head circumference of 32cm. there was a significant delay in developmental milestones. on clinical examination, he had a slender body weigh...