Evaluation of ECMWF ERA-40 temperature and wind in the lower tropical stratosphere since 1988 from past long-duration balloon measurements T. Christensen, B. M. Knudsen, J.-P. Pommereau, G. Letrenne, A. Hertzog, F. Vial, J. Ovarlez, and M. Piot Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark Service d’Aéronomie, IPSL/CNRS, Verrières-Le-Buisson, France Centre National d’Études Spatiales, To...

Looking from an historical perspective, it can be seen that many civilizations have lived in the country and consequently produced many different cultures and architectural products. One of the oldest cities which contain such historical examples which have lived until present is Tabriz. Its traditional houses are the most important places to represent the life style of the past. Lack of recogn...

In this paper, we consider a model in which spatial separation and limited communication create a transactions role for currency, and in which aggregate uncertainty associated with agents’ patterns of movement, creates a role for banks and allows the possibility of banking failures. We show that banks provide complete insurance in states of the world where there are no banking failures and that...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of late HIV diagnosis (CD4<200 cell/mm³) in an HIV clinic in Mexico City between 2001-2008, to assess changes in this prevalence across the study period, and to determine the risk factors associated to late testing (LT). MATERIALS AND METHODS Cross-sectional analysis including all patients recently diagnosed as HIV. We estimated the proportion of LT patien...

the presence of european physicians in iran during the qajar period had political and religious dimensions, in addition to its health aspects. different segments of iranian society had a very hard life due to the increasing epidemics and relative ineffectiveness of traditional medicine in the treatment of diseases. being accomplished through an analytic-descriptive method, the present research ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to describe how a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) was able to reduce substantially the use of postnatal dexamethasone in infants born between 501 and 1250 g while at the same time implementing a group of potentially better practices (PBPs) in an attempt to decrease the incidence and severity of chronic lung disease (CLD). METHODS This study was bot...

worship places are psychologically evolved in human’s mind, because his unconscious mind manifests evolution differently in such places. every religion has its concerning style, while islam and christianity represent two different blazes in two separate places. church and mosque are very important worship places and designers try to create a spiritual sense of place for the audience. whereas ac...