BACKGROUND 14q32 rearrangement has been identified as a recurrent hotspot of translocations in multiple myeloma (MM). The Fluorescence Immunophenotyping and Interphase Cytogenetics as a tool for the Investigation of Neoplasms (known as FICTION technique) for evaluation of chromosomal changes in MM. The aim of this work is to detect 14q32 rearrangement, using FICTION technique, on archival bone ...

I introduce David Hume’s notion of “imaginative resistance” and offer a brief summary of currently available understandings and explanations of imaginative resistance. I examine these in order to determine how they distinguish, if they do, imagination resistance in fiction from imaginative resistance in games. I find imaginative resistance of the sort found in fiction is relatively rare in game...

Although past research has explored the association between media of many forms (e.g., TV, music, advertising) and sexual socialization, books are 1 form of media that has largely been ignored with respect to this topic. The current study examined the relationship between lifetime exposure to different genres of text and sexual attitudes, including gender role stereotyping and sexual conservati...

surrealism is a literary school originating in europe, which found its way into the literature of other nations ,including arabic literature and thus having an impact on them. egypt is one of the world's leading arab nations in fiction. egyptian writers’ familiarity with european literature opened a new gate for the literary currents. naguib mahfouz, the great egyptian writer and nobel prize wi...

legal fiction as a legal mechanism in various legal systems especially in formalist and inflexible legal systems is original subject of this article. in this article be analysed the nature and elements of legal fiction and its historical role in ancient roman law system and common law with comparative study in iran legal system. legal fiction as a legal mechanism in various legal systems especi...

This paper presents an in-depth analysis of the importance of innovative Science Fiction Prototyping systems in different sectors with focus on educational aspects and the support of virtual environments. Therefor we investigate the utility of Science Fiction Prototypes in different environments and introduce a design model to implement flexible setups in virtual world. We illustrate how config...

We quantify competition among traders by the Herfindahl Index. The index is widely used to assess market concentration and it is computed as the sum of the squared market shares. We study the market for liquidity provision. In an electronic limit order book, liquidity is provided by passive orders and a trader’s market share is the fraction of passive limit order volume that this trader provide...

Some scientists write literary fiction books in their spare time. If these books contain scientific knowledge, literary fiction becomes a mechanism of knowledge transfer. In this case, we could conceptualize literary fiction as non-formal knowledge transfer. We model knowledge transfer via literary fiction as a function of the type of scientist (academic or non-academic) and his/her scientific ...

We present a quantitative analysis of 442 pieces of fiction published between 5 October 1992 and 17 September 2001 in the New Yorker magazine. We address two independent questions using the same data set. First, we examine whether changes in the Executive Editor or Fiction Editor are associated with significant changes in the type of fiction published at the New Yorker. Second, we examine wheth...

! The Judeo-Arabic languages comprise a set of dialects spoken and written by Jewish communities living in Arab countries, mainly during the middle ages. Judeo-Arabic is typically written in Hebrew letters, enriched with various diacritic marks. The Judeo-Arabic spoken and written by any particular Jewish community is similar to the Arabic dialect used by their local Muslim community. In additi...