Applications of antimicrobials in food production and human health have found favor throughout human history. Antibiotic applications in agricultural and human medical arenas have resulted in tremendous increases in food animal production and historically unprecedented gains in human health protection. Successes attributed to widespread antibiotic use have been accompanied by the inadvertent em...

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the phenomenon of openness in relation to library development. The term openness is presented and related to library development from historical and theoretical perspectives. The paper elaborates on the differences over time on to how openness has been understood in a library setting. Historically, openness in form of the open shelves played a crucial ...

Drugs and their metabolites are eliminated mainly by excretion into urine and bile. Studies in whole animals, isolated organs, cells, and membrane vesicles led to the conclusion that different transport systems are responsible for the transport of different classes of organic compounds (small, large, anionic, and cationic). In the early 1990s, functional expression cloning resulted in the ident...

To study the clinical and laboratory features of childhood diphtheria, the cases of 381 children with clinical and bacteriological diagnoses of diphtheria who were treated at the Children's Hospital between 1976 and 1985 were reviewed. Of these, 191 were males and 190 were females. The mean age was 4.6 years. Approximately 75% of the patients had no history of immunization. Common manifestation...

1. Dept. of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 2. Immunology Research Center, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 3. Dept. of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 4. Research Center for Patient Safety, Mashhad University of Medical Scie...

A descent family of Dai–Liao conjugate gradient methods Saman Babaie-Kafaki & Reza Ghanbari a Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Sciences, Semnan University, P.O. Box 35195-363, Semnan, Iran b School of Mathematics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), P.O. Box 19395-5746, Tehran, Iran c Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Ferdowsi Universi...

Like any other organisations in today’s knowledge base economies, academic libraries are subject to constant changes. This is based on the changes of the environment surrounding them. The ability of these organizations to produce timely responses to these changes would enhance survival rate, growth, and competitive advantage. This paper focuses on providing an analytical tool that can both impr...

At the time of subversion and containment, power structure applies various strategies for its survival. It manages ideological anxieties employs defense mechanisms to contain dissident forces. Tragic works have potential display tensions in structure, subversive forces appliance survive. By comparing classical tragic works, it is possible reach a comparative schema monarchist structure. Hence, ...