abstract the (mal –amir) is the city with vicissitudes (up and down) through the history, this city has located in the south western of iran which was ruled by eilamis. the inscriptions remained from eilami period such as: eshkaft – salman, and kool- ferah proven this fact in that area. after eilami's ruling, mal amir has been governed by madha, hekhamanesian, ashkanian and sassanian a...

HEARING AID USE AND SPEECH PERCEPTION Associations between tinnitus characteristics and sleep difficulties were also analyzed separately with four ancillary groups, including the potential candidates for cochlear implantation (Candidate group), to estimate the potential independent and combined contributions of hearing aid (HA) use and poor speech perception. Post-hoc contrasts were also analyz...

The Expectation Hypothesis of the Term Structure, henceforth EHTS 1 , is a fundamental building block of financial and macroeconomic theory. It has particularly important implications for understanding and predicting future movements in interest rates and for the conduct of monetary policy by central banks. The theory posits that the slope of the yield curve should reflect market expectations o...

Although a family history of alcoholism is the strongest risk factor for developing alcohol dependence, there are few studies of the association between familial alcoholism and the human brain's reward system activity. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine how family history affects the brain's response to subjects' preferred alcoholic drink odors (AO) as compared to...

Fig. 3. A solution to the ROSAT WFC is found in the range 26; 000 Te 36; 000 K and a solution to the EUVE count rates is found near 27; 000 Te 31; 000 K assuming pure hydrogen models. ant branch, and eventually the asymptotic giant branch. Because of the large orbital separation, evolution occurs without any signicant interaction with the companion. The second component, following its companion...

The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification TestConsumption (AUDIT-C) is a three-item alcohol screening questionnaire where threshold scores of ≥4 for men and ≥3 for women have been associated with a higher risk of alcohol misuse. However, some response patterns yield inconsistencies: some individuals who report drinking within National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) recommended...

This article explores how proponents of a public health model of alcohol policy have, for more than a quarter of a century, argued consistently but unsuccessfully for an integrated national alcohol policy in the Republic of Ireland. It looks in particular at the past decade, a time when increases in alcohol consumption and related problems strengthened the case for such an integrated policy, an...

Adolescent solitary drinking may represent an informative divergence from normative behavior, with important implications for understanding risk for alcohol-use disorders later in life. Within a self-medication framework, we hypothesized that solitary alcohol use would be associated with drinking in response to negative affect and that such a pattern of drinking would predict alcohol problems i...