Sarcopenia is the loss of muscle mass associated with aging and advanced disease. This study retrospectively examined patients older than 55 years (N=46) who underwent thoracolumbar spine surgery between 2003 and 2015. Each patient's comorbidity burden was determined using the Charlson Comorbidity Index, and the Mirza Surgical Invasiveness Index was used to measure procedural complexity. Sarcop...

Contributing Authors Xiongwen Chen (China), Jingyun Fang (China), Qiong Gao (China), T. Jarupongsakul (Thailand), R. Khosa (India), A. Lelakin (Russia), N. Mimura (Japan), M.Q. Mirza (Bangladesh), S. Mizina (Kazakhstan), M. Nakagawa (Japan), M. Nakayama (Japan), Jian Ni (China), A. Novoplansky (Israel), W.T. Piver (USA), E. Rankova (Russia), D. Saltz (Israel), K.P. Sharma (Nepal), M.L. Shrestha...

Justin F. Hummer, B.A., Assistant Director, Heads Up; Department of Psychology, Loyola Marymount University; Eric. R. Pedersen, M.A., Graduate Student; Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Center for the Study of Health & Risk Behaviors; Tehniat Mirza, M.A., Project Coordinator, Heads Up; Department of Psychology, Loyola Marymount University; Joseph W. LaBrie, Ph.D., Special Assi...

Mirza Ali Mofazzal Jahromi, Seyed Younes Hosseini, Mahmood Bozorgmehr, Kazem Baesi, Kayhan Azadmanesh, Zuhair Mohammad Hassan, Seyed Mohammad Moazzeni* Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Gastroenterohepatology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Nanobiotechnology Research Center, Avicenna Research Inst...

Currently, more than 16% of world energy demand is fulfilled by nuclear power plants (NPPs). This amounts to 2800 TWh energy annually generated by more than 441 NPPs operating in 31 countries worldwide [17]. Amongst these NPPs, the LWRs contribute to more than 85% of total energy produced by all nuclear reactors [20]. With the advantage of being proven technology along with extensive operationa...

This paper is about minimizing intercellular movements of parts for the formation of manufacturing cells using GA approach. GA is a search technique based on the process of biological evolution and has been applied as an optimization method for the formation of manufacturing cells. Different GA operators and their importance in the optimization of cellular manufacturing have been discussed. A M...

 Pasteur Institute of Iran (PII) is known for its history of benefaction by exquisite characters, the most prominent of who is the family of Farman Farmaian. Dr. Sabar Mirza Farman Farmaian, born in 1912 in Tehran, resided as the director of PII for a period of six years (1971-1977). Furthermore, he devoted his house (located in Shemiranat) for the establishment of a center to study and c...

Corrigendum notice: Protective Effect of Interval Exercise Training with Different Intensity and Alpha-Lipoic Acid Supplement on Nav1.3 Protein in Soleus Muscle of Diabetic Rats   Seyedeh Fatemeh Fatemi1, Seyed Abdollah Hashemvarzi1, Amin Farzaneh Hesari1   1Department of Exercise Physiology, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran. *Corresponding author: Tel: 09111160278, email: ...