oxidative stress has been implicated in the progression of hiv to aids, since hiv usually replicates in a highly oxidized condition and cd4+ t lymphocytes can be activated via a cascade of internal oxidative pathways, which enhances the formation of proteins and enzymes. thus, antioxidants should potentially be useful for the treatment and prevention of hiv infection as a new alternative strate...

Prolonged exposure, or adaptation, to a stimulus in 1 modality can bias, but also enhance, perception of a subsequent stimulus presented within the same modality. However, recent research has also found that adaptation in 1 modality can bias perception in another modality. Here, we show a novel crossmodal adaptation effect, where adaptation to a visual stimulus enhances subsequent auditory perc...

background and purpose: diabetes has adverse effects on the quality of life of patients. roy’s adaptation model could be used to enhance quality of life among diabetic patients. this study aimed to evaluate the effects of roy’s adaptation model in nursing practice on the quality of life in patients with type ii diabetes. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 60 diabetic patien...

Prolonged exposure to visual stimuli, or adaptation, often results in an adaptation "aftereffect" which can profoundly distort our perception of subsequent visual stimuli. This technique has been commonly used to investigate mechanisms underlying our perception of simple visual stimuli, and more recently, of static faces. We tested whether humans would adapt to movies of hands grasping and plac...

compost is one of the strategies of house hold solid wastes management that is used to decrease the volume and weight of wastes, odor and leach ate dispersion, resource recycles and decreasing disposal expenses. in order to observe environmental regulations in the frame of adaptation development projects with environmental concerns, assessment of environmental impact of composting plants has be...

background: spiritual intelligence is defined as the human capacity to ask questions about the ultimate meaning of life and the integrated relationship between us and the world in which we live. it results in an increase in psychological welt-being of individuals as well as having a goal in their life. this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between spiritual intelligence with ...

A long standing debate revolves around the question whether visual action recognition primarily relies on visual or motor action information. Previous studies mainly examined the contribution of either visual or motor information to action recognition. Yet, the interaction of visual and motor action information is particularly important for understanding action recognition in social interaction...