objective: in the present study, the effects of aqueous saffron extract (crocus sativus l.) on the acquisition and reinstatement of morphine-induced conditioned place preference (cpp) in mice were investigated. materials and methods: subcutaneous administration of morphine (40 mg/kg for four days) produced place preference. intraperitoneal administration of aqueous extract (40 and 80 mg/kg for ...

Objective: In the present study, the effects of aqueous saffron extract (Crocus sativus L.) on the acquisition and reinstatement of morphine-induced conditioned place preference (CPP) in mice were investigated. Materials and Methods: Subcutaneous administration of morphine (40 mg/kg for four days) produced place preference. Intraperitoneal administration of aqueous extract (40 and 80 mg/kg for...

Alberta Cancer Exercise (ACE) is an exercise oncology programme that transitioned from in-person to online delivery during COVID-19. The purpose of this work was understand participants’ experiences in both modes. Specifically, survivors’ facilitators and barriers, mode preference, experience with elements targeting behaviour change were gathered. A retrospective cohort design using explanatory...

This paper presents a new model, MUSCLE (Multidirectional Scanning for Line Extraction), for automatic vectorization of raster images with straight lines. The algorithm of the model implements the line thinning and the simple neighborhood methods to perform vectorization. The model allows users to define specified criteria which are crucial for acquiring the vectorization process. In this model...

Tamilnadu state of India witnessed an increasing trend of institutional deliveries since the beginning of 1990s, with decline of domiciliary deliveries to nearly zero now. Among the institutional deliveries, a shift has been observed since 2006 wherein primary health centres (PHC) have shown a four-fold increase in the number of deliveries while other public and private health facilities showed...

Industrial symbiosis (IS) can contribute to achieving a win-win situation between industry and environment for local regional circular economies. Many authors have recognized that variety of barriers hinder the implementation IS. However, there is very limited research on quantitatively evaluating IS barriers. In this paper, we propose model which combines Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Techn...

The PROMETHEE is a significant method for evaluating alternatives with respect to criteria in multi-criteria decision-making problems. It is characterized by many types of preference functions that are used for assigning the differences between alternatives in judgements. This paper proposes a preference of green suppliers using the PROMETHEE under the usual criterion preference functions. Comp...

undoubtedly, the disability to express the mystical experiences is what all mystics in east or west have rigid consensus on; it means that mystical facts and high concepts obtained through intuition aren’t possible to be expressed.  jalāl al-dīn muhammad balkhī, mowlavi has clearly explained in his masnavi the different forms of the issue and actually shows the literal difficulties to express m...

Relatively little is known about the role of early interventionists as teachers of caregivers. The current study was conducted to better understand interventionists’ perspectives about teaching caregivers. A national sample of 1525 multi-disciplinary interventionists completed an online questionnaire which elicited information about interventionists’ preferences for use of caregiver teaching st...