Introduction Wound dressings that adhere to the wound surface can disrupt the wound bed and destroy newly formed, healthy tissue on removal, resulting in a disturbed, rough surface. This often happens with simple gauze pad. To avoid conglutination with the wound, e.g. combined fleece compresses possess a micro-porous polyester foil or impregnated gauze is used. So far, it hasn’t been studied wh...

In Greek mythology, Medea betrays her homeland to assist her lover, the adventurer Jason, to obtain the Golden fleece. In exile she bears him two children, but later discovers that Jason plans to marry the King of Corynth’s daughter, so that their future children will become heirs to the throne. Seeking revenge, Medea poisons the bride and slaughters her children, leaving Jason with no chances ...

reconditioning is the process by which brief, repetitive pisodes of ischemia reduce the size of a subsequent yocardial infarction. Since the discovery of ischemic preonditioning by Murry et al. (1) almost two decades ago, housands of studies have pursued its mechanism(s) and ought therapeutic realization of this unique adaptive reponse to a physiologic stress. Although mechanistic undertanding ...

The rapid development of image media today has been reinforcing what Guy Debord argued as society spectacle. Ubiquitous visual advertising marks that spectacle invaded diverse aspects today’s life. alienated labor relations proposed by Marx are once again simulated into a pseudo-desire structure guided consumption symbols. Robert J. Sawyer’s Golden Fleece is even set in post-human world where a...

This chapter describes Jason, an interpreter written in Java for an extended version of AgentSpeak, a logic-based agent-oriented programming language that is suitable for the implementation of reactive planning systems according to the BDI architecture. We describe both the language and the various features and tools available in the platform.

a pedigree file consisting of 5860 individuals, 167 sires and 1582 dams collected at makooei sheep breeding station (msbs) during a period of 24 years (1990 to 2013) was used to calculate the inbreeding coefficients to reveal any probable effects of inbreeding (f) on the studied traits. the studied traits were classified to the five main groups including body weight, kleiber ratio, body measure...