On the 4th February, Sultan, No. 2320, on the 7th February, Dadoo, No. 2327, and on the 11th February, Biaddoo, No. 2328, all young men who had been in the quarantine with Gul Jehania, were attacked ; it was before suspected, and now became manifest, that we had got relapsing fever into the jail. These men were removed to an airy building outside the jail. No further cases occurred in the jail,...

BACKGROUND To validate the Persian version of the simple shoulder test in patients with shoulder joint problems. METHODS Following Beaton`s guideline, translation and back translation was conducted. We reached to a consensus on the Persian version of SST. To test the face validity in a pilot study, the Persian SST was administered to 20 individuals with shoulder joint conditions. We enrolled ...

Development of robust spoken language technology ideally relies on the availability of large amounts of data preferably in the target domain and language. However, more often than not, speech developers need to cope with very little or no data, typically obtained from a different target domain. This paper focuses on developing techniques towards addressing this challenge. Specifically we consid...

We study preferences over opportunity sets. Such preferences are monotone if every opportunity set is at least as good as its subsets. We prove a representation theorem for monotone preferences. The representation suggests that the decision maker optimally contemplates his mood before making his ultimate choice from his opportunity set. We show that our model reduces to that of Kreps (1979) whe...

Dekel, Lipman, and Rustichini [2008] attempt "[to identify] the broadest possible set of temptation-driven behavior." They argue that a desire for commitment characterizes such behavior. However, we argue that they go too far by including preferences which are not temptation-driven. We introduce two axioms which are stronger than their Desire for Commitment and weaker than Gul and Pesendorfer’s...

In this paper we attempt to (i) extend the competitive equilibrium neoclassical growth model to incorporate consumer preferences that feature temptation and selfcontrol as in the framework developed by Gul and Pesendorfer; (ii) use the model to analyze taxation and welfare; and (iii) extend and specialize the Gul-Pesendorfer temptation formulation to be dynamic and, in particular, quasi-geometr...

“My own behavior baffles me. For I find myself not doing what I really want to do but doing what I really loathe.” Saint Paul Gul–Pesendorfer [2001] give a decision–theoretic model of temptation building on a framework of Dekel, Lipman, and Rustichini [2001]. We argue that the axiom they use to identify temptation, set betweenness, rules out plausible and interesting forms of temptation. We pro...

INTRODUCTION In recent years, outcome assessment related to orthopedic surgeries has increasingly focused on patient-reported questionnaires. The Oxford Hip Score (OHS), self-administered questionnaire, is a reliable, valid, and responsive instrument for assessing hip in patients undergoing Arthroplasty. METHODS The study involved 105 adult Persian-speaking patients admitted for primary Total...

BACKGROUND The Oxford Knee Score (OKS) is a short patient-reported outcome instrument that measures pain and physical activity related to knee osteoarthritis. The purpose of this study is to evaluate, construct validity and consistent reliability of the Persian version of the OKS. METHODS The case series consisted of 80 patients who were clinically diagnosed with having knee osteoarthritis. A...

SIR, Urticarial vasculitis (UV) has been described as a rare association with visceral and haematological malignancy [1–5]. It is thought that tumour-associated immune complexes might be involved in the pathogenesis of the vasculitis. We report the case of a patient with UV which predated the development of localized B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. We believe this is the first report of this ass...