Concerns regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have raised awareness about the negative public health impacts of trade and investment agreements. In the past decade, we have learned much about the implications of trade agreements for public health: reduced equity in access to health services; increased flows of unhealthy commodities; limits on access to medicines; and constrained policy...

among the traditions concerning the signs of wisdom, there is a tradition related from imam al-ṣādiq (a.s.) introducing the person wearing a long beard, the signet of his ring, and his nickname, as indications of his lack of wisdom. while examining the sanad and text of this tradition, the article seeks to find out the real source of this saying and the various possibilities about the source an...

we give some new results on sparse signal recovery in the presence of noise, forweighted spaces. traditionally, were used dictionaries that have the norm equal to 1, but, forrandom dictionaries this condition is rarely satised. moreover, we give better estimationsthen the ones given recently by cai, wang and xu.

The concept of attention held a special place during the historical development psychology (Cohen, Sparkling –Cohen & O’Donell, 1993). Although hundreds articles dealing with are published each year (Whyte, 1992a), due to lack coherence at conceptual, methodological and theoretical level, there continues be disagreement among scientists (Anderson, Craik Naveh-Benjamin, 1998.

Background: Primordial follicle includes an oocyte surrounded by a layer of somatic cells called granulosa cells (GCs). GCs, also known as nurse cells, are an important protective element for the growth and survival of oocytes. Oocytes, which lack some of the metabolic processes required granulosa cells for their development. Objective: This manuscript has been provided to explain the protocol...

purpose: comparing the optical coherence tomography (oct) pachymetry patterns in keratoconus suspect and normal people methods: thirty-two keratoconus suspects and 36 healthy eyes were selected within the age range of 20-30 yrs. their pachymetry pattern was obtained through oct visante in the minimum thickness spot, upper and lower corneal difference (i-s), lower temporal, and upper nasal thick...