In Islam this is Gods right to rule over man and he gave according Sunni everyone who possesses some abilities mentioned in books written by jurists but Shia Muslims believe that not only God legitimate authority, He also appointed specific persons for political leadership after prophet Mohammad (peace upon him), they are twelve Imam the last Mahdi(peace him) went major occultation 941 till six...

throughout the history, there have been deep cultural as well as scientic connections between iran and india. in medieval period, many persian physicians immigrated to india mainly because of political and social reasons. a good example of this was mirza mohammad hashem alavi khan shirazi who belonged to shiraz medical doctrine. he was born in shiraz, but immigrated to india and was in the cou...

Small interfering RNA (siRNA)-mediated knock-down is a widely used experimental approach to characterizing gene function. Although siRNAs are designed to guide the cleavage of perfectly complementary mRNA targets, acting similarly to microRNAs (miRNAs), siRNAs down-regulate the expression of hundreds of genes to which they have only partial complementarity. Prediction of these siRNA 'off-target...

*Corresponding Author: Dr. Mohammad Bagher Tavakoli, Department of Medical Physics and Medical Engineering, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Fax: +98 311 7922412 E-mail: [email protected] Background: Breast is one of the main radiological sensitive organs, hence it is important to evaluate absorbed dose to this organ especially to the glandular parts. It is the aim of t...

As patrons and editors, I and Dr. Mirza had to work on few very vital issues. First and foremost concern was that it should not be looked upon an isolated Indo-Pak venture! Though in the first five years, 2/3rd of the contributions are from these two neighboring countries, the other 1/3rd valuable share comes from all parts of the globe (Table 1 and Fig. 1). We have an international reach now. ...

SCS Executive Committee John (Drew) Hamilton Jr., President Auburn University François Cellier, Past President University of Arizona Mohammad S. Obaidat, Senior Vice President Monmouth University David Cook, V.P., Conferences Aegis Technologies Group, Inc. Michael J. Chinni, V.P., Membership U.S. Army RDECOM ARDEC Bernard Zeigler, V.P., Publications University of Arizona William V. Tucker, V.P....