Cursive handwriting recognition is a challenging task for many real-world applications such as document authentication, form processing, postal address recognition, reading machines for the blind, bank check recognition, and interpretation of historical documents. Therefore, in the last few decades, researchers have put an enormous effort into developing various techniques for handwriting recog...

Occupational therapy in Iran is relatively young-established in 1971-with a fluctuated development due to the Iranian revolution in 1979, and eight years war from 1981 to 1989. Today, there are ten Bachelor programs across the country approved by World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT). Furthermore, occupational therapists have opportunities for further postgraduate training in both ...

I. EARLIEST OCCURRENCE: Osteomyelitis seems to have been a frequent occurrence not only in man, but also in fossil animals. Moodie described gross and microscopical features identical with those of osteomyelitis following fracture of the posterior dorsal spine of a Permian reptile.(') This denotes that the disease has been encountered at such an early period of history of the earth, long before...

Received 7, December, 2014 Received in revised form 19, December, 2014 Accepted 10, January, 2015 Published online 28, January, 2015 The gall stone formation (cholelithiasis) is well known global health problem since very early times. Various biochemical and patho-physiological factors have been reported to be associated with gall stone disease such as stasis of bile, obstruction in bile duct, ...

Objective: To describe the most important coma scales developed in the last fifty years. Method: A review of the literature between 1969 and 2009 in the Medline and Scielo databases was carried out using the following keywords: coma scales, coma, disorders of consciousness, coma score and levels of coma. Results: Five main scales were found in chronological order: the Jouvet coma scale, the Mos...

The adenoids, also known as the Luschka’s tonsil or the nasopharyngeal tonsil, is a mass of lymphoid tissue located posterior to the nasal cavity, in the roof of the nasopharynx. The adenoids along with the palatine and lingual tonsils are an integral part of the Waldeyer’s ring, which represents 3 to 5 % of the entire lymphatic system.

Teofil Simchowicz (1879–1957) was a Polish-Jewish neurologist who studied medicine at the Warsaw University, and worked under the founder of modern Polish school of neurology, Edward Flatau (1868–1932). It was Flatau who encouraged him to join Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915) in Munich. Simchowicz focused his research on the neuropathological changes in dementia. He emigrated with his wife to Palest...