a 70 year old male presented with right lower quadrant pain and anorexia for about 72 hours prior to hospital admission. he underwent laparotomy with impression of acute appendicitis. the operative finding was an inflamed tumoral appendix without appendicular base involvement, and appendectomy was done. the patient had an uneventful post-op course. due to the pathology report of prostatic carci...

The Middle Persian (MP) verb gumēxtan , gumēz- [gwmyhtn', gymyc-], despite its Indo-Iranian and Indo-European origins, does not offer attestations in Avestan Old Persian. This is a very peculiar fact, because particular nominal derivative of this verbal stem, gumēzišn [gwmyck'], became one the most sensible technical terms adopted framework Mazdean cosmology theology. We can briefly recall that...

depuis la mort de samuel beckett en 1989, le théâtre de langue néerlandaise, tant aux pays-bas qu’en belgique, a manifesté un nouvel intérêt pour ses pièces. à la haye en avril 1992, lors du festival prestigieux consacré à l’auteur, nous pûmes assister à la représentation d’en attendant godot d’après la traduction de jacoba van velde, fidèle aux exigences de l’auteur. un an après, le ntg à gand...

Children's outdoors play (OP) is an important source of physical activity that has been decreasing in recent years due to changes in neighborhood design, parent safety concerns and child sedentary leisure. However, few studies examined such determinants from children's perspectives. This study explores environmental and socio-cultural aspects of children's OP using a qualitative and quantitativ...

Compared with normal littermates, the op/op mice had very few macrophages in the peritoneal cavity and severely reduced numbers of monocytes in the peripheral blood. Moreover, osteopetrotic animals demonstrated an altered distribution of hemopoietic tissue with a 10-fold decrease in the number of marrow cells. Liver hemopoiesis persisted in 4-wk-old mice as evidenced by the presence of hemopoie...

Repetitive articulatory rate or Oral Diadochokinesis (oral-DDK) shows a guideline for appraisal and diagnosis of subjects with oral-motor disorder. Traditionally, meaningless words repetition has been utilized in this task and preschool children have challenges with them. Therefore, we aimed to determine some meaningful words in order to test oral-DDK in Persian speaking preschool children. Par...

The present study aims to compare the language development of normal Persian and Persian-Turkish preschoolers using PDSS as a morpho-syntactic measure determine if bilingualism has any effects on development. Subjects included 30 Persian- Turkish from middle social class in three age groups 37-46, 47-56, 57-66 months old. Language background ASQ II questionnaires were completed by children’s pa...