690 research outputs found
The Image of Quds in the Poetry of Yousof-al-Azam and Mahmood Shahrokhi
No full textYousof-al-Azam, the contemporary Jordan poet, and Mahmood Shahrokhi, the contemporary Iranian poet, have regarded Palestine and Quds and composed numerous poems on the issue. Both poets praise Quds and address it with a variety of titles such as the first kiblah, altar, temple, pearl, Kosar and Paradise. They portray with sorrow the occupied Quds, the exile of the Palestinians, murder and loneliness of people in the disaster. This study, through a descriptive-analytical method and using library resources, tries to examine the poems of Yousof Al-Azam those of Mahmood Shahrokhi in order to indicate the way Quds and its related issues are portrayed by them. The findings suggest that, through reminding the divine status and the spiritual sanctity of Quds, both poets call people to struggle and resistance, and give them hope as to the assistance of Allah the final victory. They utilize words and meanings of the Holy Quran, adding to the beauty and richness of their words and conveying their message
The anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effects of clove oil in healthy dogs after surgery
No full textThe current study was designed to evaluate the anti-inflammatory and antipyretic properties of clove oil in dogs. So thirty adult male dogs were used. After a surgical incision on the abdominal area, animals were divided into four group. The first group received 25 mg/kg of clove oil while the second group was considered as a control. The third and fourth groups received betamethasone (20 mg/kg) and phenylbutazone (15 mg/kg) as anti-inflammatory and anti-pyretic agents, respectively. All injections were performed for five consecutive days. All tests (measurement of edema, complete blood count, histopathology, and rectal temperature) were performed on all groups. Our results showed that in the clove oil-treated animals, the amount of edema was significantly decreased as compared to control (P ≤ 0.05). The number of white blood cells, neutrophils and band neutrophils was decreased in clove-oil treated dogs as compared to control (P ≤ 0.05). There was no significant difference in the number of red blood cells and hematocrit between clove-oil treated and vehicle-treated groups (P > 0.05). Rectal temperature significantly decreased in the clove oil-treated group as compared to control (P ≤ 0.05). Histopathology revealed that the clove oil-treatment significantly reduced the inflammation. We showed that clove oil administration has anti-inflammatory and antipyretic properties in dogs
Correction to: Naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) concentration and health risk assessment of aerosols dust in Nicosia, North Cyprus (Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, (2024), 333, 3, (1073-1082), 10.1007/s10967-023-09346-w)
No full textThe article “Naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) concentration and health risk assessment of aerosols dust in Nicosia, North Cyprus”, written by Hesham M. H. Zakaly, Akbar Abbasi, Nouf Almousa and Ahmet Savaşan, was originally published Online First without Open Access. After publication in volume 333, issue 3, page 1073–1082, the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an Open Access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed t
Biomimetic synthesis of antimicrobial silver nanoparticles using in vitro-propagated plantlets of a medicinally important endangered species: Phlomis bracteosa
No full textSumaira Anjum, Bilal Haider Abbasi Department of Biotechnology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan Abstract: In vitro-derived cultures of plants offer a great potential for rapid biosynthesis of chemical-free antimicrobial silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) by enhancing their phytochemical reducing potential. Here, we developed an efficient protocol for in vitro micropropagation of a high-value endangered medicinal plant species, Phlomis bracteosa, in order to explore its biogenic potential in biomimetic synthesis of antimicrobial AgNPs. Murashige and Skoog medium supplemented with 2.0 mg/L thidiazuron was found to be more efficient in inducing optimum in vitro shoot regeneration (78%±4.09%), and 2.0 mg/L indole-3-butyric acid was used for maximum root induction (86%±4.457%). Antimicrobial AgNPs were successfully synthesized by using aqueous extract (rich in total phenolics and flavonoids content) of in vitro derived plantlets of P. bracteosa. Ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy of synthesized AgNPs showed characteristic surface plasmon band in the range of 420–429 nm. The crystallinity, size, and shape of the AgNPs were characterized by X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy. Face-centered cubic AgNPs of almost uniform spherical size (22.41 nm) were synthesized within a short time (1 hour) at room temperature. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy revealed that the polyphenols were mainly responsible for reduction and capping of synthesized AgNPs. Energy dispersive X-ray analysis further endorsed the presence of elemental silver in synthesized AgNPs. These biosynthesized AgNPs displayed significantly higher bactericidal activity against multiple drug-resistant human pathogens. The present work highlighted the potent role of in vitro-derived plantlets of P. bracteosa for feasible biosynthesis of antimicrobial AgNPs, which can be used as nanomedicines in many biomedical applications. Keywords: silver nanoparticles, Phlomis bracteosa, in vitro micropropagation, antimicrobial, multidrug resistant bacteri
In Quest of Wisdom; Missing Segment of Current Medicine: Wisdom; Missing Segment of Current Medicine
No full textBackground and Aim: Considering the history of Islamic and Iranian culture we should represent new solutions able to join the current medicine and the former Hikmat (Wisdom) in the light of the medical world-view and through making use of the historical instructions of hikmat.
Materials and Methods: In the present review study, using keywords such as Hikmat, Aristotle ethics, medical research, medical ethics as well as bioethics, we searched for the published articles and resources regarding this topic, and then they were analyzed.
Ethical Considerations: Honesty in the literature and citation analysis and reporting were considered.
Findings: From the old days, pious people always had sought wisdom. Medicine was considered a kind of practical wisdom that is called Pyrrhonism or wisdom and the physician was known as a pious person. A physician must reach the highest degree of knowledge so he would gain virtue. In the past, science was accompanied by the perfectness of soul and physician for achieving the truth, had to learn the medicine along with wisdom, because wisdom and medicine had a close relationship.
But nowadays seems that medical science enters into the age of instability and morals in all fields have collapsed and the continuance of this process has not any bright perspective for the future of medicine. One of the obvious reasons for this situation in two recent decades is the separation between medical sciences and humanism.
Conclusion: In recent decades that western world was in seek of ethics for the purpose of amends the lack of religion and virtuality in their society, we in a opposite attitude with separation of tentative science especially medicine from humanism, have caused a great and irrecoverable damages on the body of our medicine, so that unfortunately our country is following the west in this matter. The reason of this matter is in the collapse of values that was the foundation of previous wisdom, the wisdom that seems to be the missing segment of current medicine.
In this article we show the necessity of attention to the medical ethics as a fundamental element in reaching the goal of medicine based on wisdom.
*Corresponding Author: Mahmoud Abbasi; Email: [email protected]; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4223-6818
Please cite this article as: Abbasi M. In Quest of Wisdom; Missing Segment of Current Medicine. Bioeth Health Law J. 2021; 1: 1-9 (e9). http://doi.org/10.22037/bhl.v1i1.3813
Slip effects on mixed convective peristaltic transport of copper-water nanofluid in an inclined channel.
No full textPeristaltic transport of copper-water nanofluid in an inclined channel is reported in the presence of mixed convection. Both velocity and thermal slip conditions are considered. Mathematical modelling has been carried out using the long wavelength and low Reynolds number approximations. Resulting coupled system of equations is solved numerically. Quantities of interest are analyzed through graphs. Numerical values of heat transfer rate at the wall for different parameters are obtained and examined. Results showed that addition of copper nanoparticles reduces the pressure gradient, axial velocity at the center of channel, trapping and temperature. Velocity slip parameter has a decreasing effect on the velocity near the center of channel. Temperature of nanofluid increases with increase in the Grashoff number and channel inclination angle. It is further concluded that the heat transfer rate at the wall increases considerably in the presence of copper nanoparticles
Requirements of Consent and Innocence and its Impact on Medical Liability Falling: Requirements of consent and innocence
No full textBackground and Aim: The theory of consent and innocence are two major approaches in medical law that, studying them as one of the essential conditions of medical liability, has special significance. This study aimed to analyze the discussion of consent and innocence and its impact on medical liability falling.
Materials and Methods: In the present study, keywords of consent, innocence, doctor, and liability in databases PubMed, Magiran, SID, ISC, and Google Scholar were searched and relevant literature was searched and analyzed.
Ethical Considerations: Principles of ethics and integrity in the search, citation, and literature analysis were taken into consideration.
Findings: In this study, after explaining the concept of patient consent and satisfactory and capacity conditions in its declaration and also the concept of innocence and its terms, it is emphasized that every wise and mature person has the right to decide about the treatment or medical method recommended for him.
Conclusion: Although the legislator explicitly pointed to obtain consent from the patient or his legal representatives in surgeries and medical operations and the existence of such consent in all surgical and medical operations is known as a requirement except in cases of urgent, but because in our legal system to comply with Jurisprudence, the obligation to result in surgeries and medical operations indicates the nature of the commitment of doctors and theoretical basis of medical liability, obtaining patient consent, legitimation of medical procedures and respecting the legitimacy of scientific and technical aspects of the state system are not the complete reasons of the collapse of medical liability and compensation the physician is responsible for a compensation of the damages applied to the patient unless before starting treatment acquittal is received from the patient or his representatives.
*Corresponding Author: Mahmoud Abbasi; Email: [email protected]; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4223-6818
Please cite this article as: Abbasi M. Requirements of Consent and Innocence and its Impact on Medical Liability Falling. Bioeth Health Law J. 2021; 1:1-8: (e7). http://doi.org/10.22037/bhl.v1i1.38132  
A Foucauldian Account of Power Relations in Jane Eyre
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to examine the Foucauldian theory of power relations within the extremely hierarchical Victorian world of Jane Eyre (1847), by Charlotte Brontë. Though in patriarchal world of this novel, power is supposedly in hands of white males and women are powerless, according to Foucault's theory, no one is outside the network of power and absolutely powerful or totally powerless, because resistance is another form of power. This thesis will explore different oppressed stages of Jane's life, as well as her resistance to oppression: her power relation with John Reed in form of verbal aggression and violence at Gateshead, her resistance and practicing power in form of silence and obedience at Lowood, and her strategic manner of resistance and practicing power with Rochester at Thornfield and later with St. John Rivers at Moor House. It will show that although Jane is an outsider and under oppression due to her social class and gender, in fact, she exercises power all the time in the form of resistance. Byadopting a Foucauldian theory of power relations, this thesis aims to demonstrate a relational, mutual form of practicing power, not a patriarchal form of power within the patriarch world of the novel. In addition, the thesis aims to show the shifting power between men and women and their simultaneous experiencing of being oppressed and oppressor
Peristaltic Motion of a non-Newtonian Nanofluid in an Asymmetric Channel
No full textThe peristaltic transport of a Carreau-Yasuda fluid in an asymmetric channel is studied. Problem formulation is given in the presence of nanoparticles and contributions of Brownian motion and thermophoresis are taken into account. Lubrication approach is employed. The resulting nonlinear system of equations is solved numerically, and the effects of sundry parameters on the velocity, temperature, and concentration are analyzed. Heat and mass transfer rates are computed and examined. The results show that the impact of the non-Newtonian parameters on flow quantities get reversed when we move from shear thinning to shear thickening fluids. The temperature of the nanofluid in presence of Brownian motion increases, furthermore the influence of Brownian motion parameter on temperature and concentration distributions is opposite.http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000342525600009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701Chemistry, PhysicalPhysics, MultidisciplinarySCI(E)[email protected]
Hyperferritinemia: A possible marker for diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus?
No full textAbstract: Objectives: Comparing the serum ferritin levels of patients with systemic lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
during different phases of activity with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA) patients as controls.
Materials & Methods: Sixty SLE patients (56 females and 4 males) were divided into two groups marked as 1)
low/no active (SLEDAI≤10) including 18 patients and 2) active (SLEDAI≥11) composed of 42 patients. Serum
ferritin was determined in both SLE and control groups including 20 patients with OA and 20 with active RA
(according to DAS28). Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 13.0. Results: Of 60 SLE patients, 61.7%
had hyperferritinemia. Contrarily, only %5 and 15% of OA an RA patients showed elevated serum ferritin levels,
respectively (P<0.001). In differentiating between SLE and RA, hyperferritinemia showed a specificity of 85% and
a sensitivity of 61.6% with positive predictive value of 92.5% and negative predictive value of 42.5%. The mean
ferritin titer in SLE patients was 2.7 times higher than normal value whereas it was 0.10 and 0.35times in OA and
RA, respectively (P<0.001). Ferritin levels were elevated in 27 cases of active SLE and 10 of low/no active SLE but
the difference was insignificant. Of SLE patients with nervous system involvement, all (6; 10%) had elevated level
of serum ferritin (P<0.04).Conclusion: Hyperferritinemia is common in patients with SLE but in case of
considerably high titers, the nervous system involvement should be considered. In women with polyarthritis,
hyperferritinemia could be considered as a useful marker to differentiate between SLE and RA.
[Abbasi M, Sahebari M, Amini A, Saghafi M. Hyperferritinemia: A possible marker for diagnosis of systemic
lupus erythematosus? Life Sci J 2013;10(3s):335-337] (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 47
Keywords: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Ferritin, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Nervous system, SLE Disease Activity
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