'The History of Hindu Chemistry' is one of the rare, important books published in twentieth century. Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray, the author of this book, who was a chemist by profession, has contributed greatly to the field of Rasashastra in his own style. The book in two volumes is in English and has achieved international recognition. The work became the cause of enlightening people specially, ...

As American settlers moved ever westward in the 1800s, conflict continued with the Native Americans who lived in these territories. The federal government used a combination of treaties and force to move Native Americans westward. The treaties were worthless, because Native Americans were forced repeatedly to give up their land that had been guaranteed by treaty. In the late 1830s, President An...

abstractmulla-mohammad fuzuli-baghdadi (890 - 963 ah) is a poet who has a poem and prose literature works in three persians, arabic, and turkish languages. one of his works in persian prose is “safar-nāma-ye rūḥ” which is popular as “hosn o eshgh” and “sehhat o maraz”. this work is a story of entering sprit into the body, and its conjoining with temperament and its journey at body territory.bid...

In this work, we investigate the potential benefits of introducing relay stations in the round-trip ridesharing problem. In the classical round-trip ridesharing system, the pick-up and drop-off locations for the rider don’t differ from his origin and destination, respectively, for both outgoing and return trips. This system is straightforward but inflexible and unbalanced as it puts the whole d...

Background: For psychiatric disorders, comorbidity is a rule rather than exception. Thus it is particularly important to study additive and multiplicative effects of multiple mental disorders on suicidal behaviors. Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the ethnic differences in multiplicative effects of mental disorders on suicidal ideation among Black adults in the United States...

Recently, after a family trip, a friend of mine decided to go back to use his old paper map in his travels and to put his GPS receiver to rest for ever. This came after a series of deceptions by this little device with the annoying automated voice and the 4" screen and the constantly lost signal, his words notmine. The latest of these deceptions was a trip from Ottawa to Niagara Falls which too...

As the number of older Americans increases, so will the number of incident cancers. According to the US Bureau of Census in 1993, projected estimates indicate that 14% of the total population will be over the age of 65 by the year 2010, with Florida having the highest percentage of elderly at almost 20%. With this forecasted increase in the number of older Americans with cancer, it is important...