Most American jurisdictions have recently established new intermediate sanctions programs. Few such programs have diverted large numbers of offenders from prison, saved public monies or prison beds, or reduced recidivism rates. These findings recur in evaluations of community service, intensive supervision, house arrest, day reporting centers, and boot camps. The principal problems have been hi...

Intermediate filaments form a class of insoluble cytoplasmic filaments ofdimensions intermediate in size between those of microtubules (about 25 nm in diameter) and microfilaments (about 7 nm in diameter). Thus, they are generally known as intermediate-sized filaments (IF)' or 10-nm filaments. They have been identified in virtually all differentiated types ofcells and it seems possible that IF-...

Iran-China relations are deeply rooted in history and have been enhanced recently with bilateral cooperation in the areas of energy, arms sales, trade, political cooperation and cultural ties. The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of international outsourcing in form of trading intermediate products on bilateral trade relations between Iran and China. As an empirical work, we h...

A 32-year old woman presented with visual loss in her right eye on8/9/95. She was diagnosed with bilateral pars planitis with vitreoushemorrhage and inferior snowbank in the left eye in 1986. Subsequently she developed rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in that eye. Pars plana vitrecromy with endolaser panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) and scleral buckling OS was done. One year later she had cat...

Over 56,000 aortic valves are replaced annually in the United States, making AS the second most common reason for heart surgery, behind only coronary artery disease. The intraoperative echocardiographer plays a part in confirming the diagnosis of AS, quantifying its severity, and ensuring proper prosthetic valve function postoperatively. However, the aortic valve is only one component of the ao...

Listening is regarded as an interactive process involving decoding of information. This study was launched to find out the impact of bottom-up (BU) and top-down (TD) techniques on Iranian lower and upper intermediate learners’ listening comprehension. We selected a total of 120 participants in six intact classes, three lower intermediate and three upper intermediate. The proficiency level of th...