many reports have indicated the medical importance of animal poisons in iran. the significance numbers of iranians are injured from high endemic to sporadic, by venomous snakes, scorpions, wasps, bees, fire and velvet ants, spiders and backswimmer bugs, so their nuisance prevention is an important task.

introduction: fasting during the holy month of ramadan is an obligation for all adult, healthy muslims. as several studies have indicated, both fasting and energy restriction can alter thyroid hormone metabolism and affect the clinical features and well-being of hypothyroid patients. hypothyroidism is more prevalent among women and the elderly. its prevalence has been reported to be 4-8% of the...

Is there an objective, biological basis for the experience of beauty in art? Or is aesthetic experience entirely subjective? Using fMRI technique, we addressed this question by presenting viewers, naïve to art criticism, with images of masterpieces of Classical and Renaissance sculpture. Employing proportion as the independent variable, we produced two sets of stimuli: one composed of images of...

* Egyptian sculpture has created statues and reliefs with deformations similar to morphological changes such as found in human schistosomiasis; characteristics of splenomegaly have been depicted in naturalistic reliefs and also symbolically in order to indicate assumed qualities of deities. Such statues show usually to some degree a transformation from male to morphological female features as i...

Ice has long been used by humankind for practical purposes, and more recently for artistic purposes as well. Nowadays, the field of ice construction is becoming more commerically relevant, with increased interest in ice tourism and specifically ice hotels. As a result, there is a market for automating ice construction, and building detailed structures that would otherwise require a significant ...