Many genetic studies recently have focused on HLA, VDR, NRAMP1, MBL, TNF-a, and their relationships with susceptibility to diseases such as pulmonary tuberculosis. Some studies showed predisposing and protective roles for VDR polymorphisms in pulmonary tuberculosis. Through a case-control study, blood samples were taken from tuberculosis case (n= 164) and control (n= 50) groups. DNA was extract...

Silence about the past permeates acts of remembering, with marked mnemonic consequences. Mnemonic silence-the absence of expressing a memory-is public in nature and is embedded within communicative acts, such as conversations. As such, silence has the potential to affect both speakers-the source of the silence-and listeners-those attending to the speaker. Although the topic of silence is widely...

Over the last decade, Financial Literacy (FL) and interventions aimed at improving it, that is Financial Education (FE), have been the focus of increased attention from economists, governments, and international organizations such as the world Bank and OECD, but much less by scholars in the fields of Learning and Instruction. We examined open-ended written answers on the causes of the economic ...

this work deals with the calculation of franck-condon factors using hua potential function for the first time. the advantages of this function have been mentioned, and the numerical methods are used to obtain franck-condon factors for the following band systems: agreement between the values of this work and those obtained from other works is quite good that verifies the reliability of the prese...

one of the best ways to encountering administrative corruption is identifying the factors of its emersion, prevalence and control. this paper aims to determine and prioritize those mentioned factors in educational system. research results showed that economic conditions of educational personnel have most important impact on tendency to commit corruption. also, administrative and managerial mech...

The service robot that carries out tasks ordered by the users through speech needs a vision system to recognize the objects appearing in the orders and a speech interface for natural communication with the user. The user’s order may be explicit or implicit. The speech interfaces should have a capability of dealing with explicit as well as implicit utterances. In this paper, we present ‘how envi...

This article presents a method of the rough estimation of geographical coordinates of villages and cities, which is described in the 19th-Century geographical encyclopedia entitled: “The Geographical Dictionary of the Polish Kingdom and Other Slavic Countries” [18]. Described are the algorithm function for estimating location, the tools used to acquire and process necessary information, and the...