OBJECTIVE One of the most common global disorders is related to gastrointestinal system. Functional dyspepsia (FD) defined as upper abdominal pain and discomfort in the absence of organic ailments is a prevalent disease without any confirmed medication. The purpose of this study was to find gastric disorders which might be coincidental to FD based on traditional Persian medicine (TPM). MATERI...

Editorial note. Each A&M issue will contain (in no particular sequence) a reappraisal of a past text of what may be considered (unfashionably) canonical, classical or at least of continuing interest in medical anthropology or cultural psychiatry. The sixth is by Hora-cio Fabrega and Daniel Silver. Piggy-backed onto the existing Harvard University Chiapas Project in SouthWestern Mexico, Fabrega ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present and validate an originally developed application SkinCare used for skin dose mapping in interventional procedures, which are associated with relatively high radiation doses the patient’s possible reactions. Methods tool generating maps following radiology cardiology procedures using realistic 3D patient models. Skin calculated data from Digital Im...

Brian Tierney has established himself over the course of forty-five years of writing and teaching as one of the world's leading authorities on the history of medieval canon law and political thought. In a series of foundational works, he has offered important new interpretations of the origins of Western constitutionalism, tracing many concepts believed to be modem or early modem innovations to...

Fr. Morrisey is professor of canon law, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario. Aclear distinction is to be made between "Catholic works" and the "works of Catholics." The former are undertaken "in the name of the Church" (canon 116), with all the guarantees of the church behind them. On the other hand, works of Catholics are undertakings of Catholics that might have an ecclesial relationship o...

Ryuichi Shimoyama 1,* and Reo Fukuda 2 1 College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Tokyo 275-8575, Japan 2 System Research Division Image Information Systems Laboratory, Canon Electronics Inc., Tokyo 105-0011, Japan; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +81-47-474-2418 † This paper is an extended version of our paper published in Proceed...