abdominal mass is one of the commonest clinical findings in children. the purpose of this study was to evaluate abdominal masses in different age groups in a referral children surgical center. we retrospectively reviewed records of 325 patients (57% boys, mean age 37.7 months) admitted to amir kabir hospital in period of 12 years for abdominal mass surgery. the 4 most common abdominal masses wa...

The ISIS-model allows a better understanding for managers and regional authorities of the ongoing change towards the information based “New Economy” and towards an information society. New policies have become possible for generating sustainable regional growth, sustainable in both, regional economic success and ecological health. The ISIS-model is build for evaluating policies for sustainabili...

Isis: Page 6 Two recent archaeological developments have brought Cleopatra into the news. They each concern tombs—her sister Arsinoe’s tomb and her own. A skull of a skeleton found early last century in ‘The Octagon’ a tomb in Ephesus in Turkey was recently reconstructed using measurements of the skeleton taken in the 1920s. The skull itself was lost in the 1940s. The reconstructed skull turned...

Deliverable One Identifying Key Requirements for Pricing Reform Status: Public Version: 3.0 October 2002 Authors: Bryan Matthews and Chris Nash, Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds Project Partners: Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), Leeds Forschungs-undAnwenungsverbund Verkehrssystemtechnik (FAV), Berlin Istituto di Studi per l'Integrazione dei Sistemi (ISIS), Rome Netherlands Organizat...

draw-a-man test (dam) as projection of a person’s inner world can provide information about people interests, anxieties, defenses and inhibitions. the aim of this study was to investigate indicators of aggression in dam test in primary male school students. materials and methods: in this explanatory study 57 male student in third grade of a primary school of khorramabad city were selected by co...

This paper discusses the development of the human social brain. First, I will argue that social cognition is uniquely important and describe evidence that social interaction plays a critical role in early brain development. I will then discuss recent research demonstrating that the social brain undergoes protracted development and that adolescence in particular represents a period of reorganiza...

Traditional diagram editors require the user to select the different available shapes from a list before placing them on the drawing area. In contrast, sketching allows the user to really draw diagrams like with pen and paper. The actual shapes are later recognized by software. This means an increased flexibility and simplicity in graphical user interfaces. We present a new approach towards ske...

[Purpose] This study compared the effectiveness of stabilization and McKenzie exercises on pain, disability, and thickness of the transverse abdominis and multifidus muscles in patients with nonspecific chronic low back pain. [Subjects] Thirty patients were randomly assigned into two groups: the McKenzie and stabilization exercise groups. [Methods] Before and after intervention, pain, disabilit...

Let us take two groups of, say, 310 people each, drawn from the same population. Now let usdraw two large circles. Withineachcircle, let usdraw31 equallyspacedsmallercir-cles, sothat,foreachsmallcircleinonelargecircle, thereisan equivalently situated small circle in the other large circle. Now we instruct the 31 0 people to form self-assorted sub-groupsof lopeopleeach, andoccupyoneofthesmallcir...