456 research outputs found
Interview with Azar Nafisi
No full textIranian author Azar Nafisi speaks about her experiences and the themes of women's rights and struggle that motivate her work including her famous memior Reading Lolita in Tehran. She also shares her thoughts and feelings on the 40 year fight for women's rights in Iran
Azar Nafisi, 39th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textAzar Nafisi is the author of numerous books including Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which has been translated in 32 languages; Anti-Terra: A Critical Study of Vladimir Nabokov’s Novels; and The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and New Republic. She has received many literary and humanitarian awards including the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; an American Immigration Law Foundation achievement award; a Persian Golden Lioness Award for Literature from the World Academy of Arts, Literature, and Media; and a Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation International Thought and Humanities Award. She currently is a visiting fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC
The Cbs-Based W/O Emulsion for Development of Heat-Resistant Compound Chocolate: Study on Thermal, Rheological and Physical Properties
No full textFor developing the heat-resistant compound chocolate, a type of W/O emulsion based on cocoa butter substitute (CBS) was evaluated. The emulsion with a W/O ratio of 45:55 (CBS-E55 sample) was chosen as the optimum emulsion based on heat stability and the smallest range of particle size (0.162-0.258 m), and the thermal properties close to CBS. The optimum emulsion was then incorporated to compound chocolate formulation at different concentrations including 0 (control), 1(CC1), 2 (CC2), 3 (CC3), and 4 (CC4) (w/w%). The results of the DSC test showed that with the addition of 1 and 2% of the CBS-based emulsion, the melting points of compound chocolates increased. The steady rheological test showed that all compound chocolates had thixotropic behavior and also the control and CC4 samples showed the highest (143.760 Pa) and the lowest (47.692 Pa) yield stress, respectively. In the strain sweep oscillatory rheological test, the CC4 and CC1 samples showed the minimum and maximum linear viscoelastic region (LVR), respectively. The puncture test showed an increment of firmness in CC1, but further addition of water decreased the firmness of samples. The results showed improved sensory and physical properties of compound chocolate at the level of 1 % CBS-based W/O emulsion
Inlet patch: The under-explored island
No full text[No abstract available]Azar C, 2007, J CLIN GASTROENTEROL, V41, P468, DOI 10.1097-01.mcg.0000225519.59030.8d; GRAY SW, 1972, EMBRYOLOGY SURGEONS; Gutierrez O, 2003, AM J GASTROENTEROL, V98, P1266, DOI 10.1016-S0002-9270(03)00267-3; Jacobs E, 1997, ENDOSCOPY, V29, P710, DOI 10.1055-s-2007-1004294; Klaase JM, 2001, GASTROINTEST ENDOSC, V53, P101, DOI 10.1067-mge.2001.111394; Lauwers GY, 1998, DIGEST DIS SCI, V43, P901, DOI 10.1023-A:1018855223225; Maconi G, 2000, EUR J GASTROEN HEPAT, V12, P745, DOI 10.1097-00042737-200012070-00005; RATTNER HM, 1986, GASTROENTEROLOGY, V90, P130911
The Epidemiologic Study of Depression in Medical Students of Bandar Abbas University (1994-1995)
No full textObjective: The purpose of present study was to find the percentage of depression frequency, its intensity and relationship with chronic and acute stress, history of neurological disorders, and several demographic indexes among medical students of Bandar Abbas University during 1994-95.
Materials & Methods: A total of 300 questionnaires were distributed among students based on random-classified sampling method. Of them, 271 questionnaires were returned and studied.
Results: In the present study, percentage of depression frequency and its intensity were investigated among 271 medical students using Beck Depression Inventory. The results showed that 44.1% of students had depression. The depression rate was scored low (26.3%), average (10.4%), and high (7.4%). The depression frequency was higher in the third and fifth year of university students.
Conclusion: The depression rate had a positive significant correlation with marital status, chronic stress, acute diseases, previous infliction to depression, and other mental disorders. The factors such as disinterest in medicine and dissatisfaction with current situation had specific correlation with depression. However, there was no significant correlation between depression and factors such as age, sex, being native, chronic stress, and positive family history for depression
Rejections and the Importance of First Response Times (Or: How Many Rejections Do Others Receive?)
No full textPrevious studies about the academic publishing process consider the publication delay as starting from the submission to the publishing journal. This ignores the potential delay caused by rejections received from previous journals. Knowing how many times papers are submitted prior to publication is essential for evaluating the importance of different publication delays and the refereeing process cost, and can improve our decisions about if and how the review process should be altered, decisions that affect the productivity of economists and other scholars. Using numerical analysis and evidence on acceptance rates of various journals, I estimate that most manuscripts are submitted between three and six times prior to publication. This implies that the first response time (the time between submission and first editorial decision) is much more important than other parts of the publication delay, suggesting important policy implications for editors and referees.academic-publishing-process; turnaround-time; academic- journals; review-process; publication-delay; rejections
Paleopsychoda zherikhini Azar & Adaymeh & Jreich 2007, sp. n.
No full textPaleopsychoda zherikhini sp. n. Figs 2–10 Etymology: In memory of Prof. Vladimir Zherikhin, who was a friend of the senior author and a great authority in palaeoentomology. Diagnosis: Eyebridge incomplete. Mouthparts well developed and phlebotomine-like. Maxillary palp 4-segmented, with last palpomere twice as long as others. Third and fourth palpomeres with secondary annulations over their entire length. Antenna with 15 flagellomeres, the last one being reduced and drop-like. Description: Mouthparts well developed, equal in length to head (Figs 4–7), palp 0.45 mm long, with four palpomeres. Eyes forming weak and incomplete eyebridge, separated by distance of 0.125 mm. Antenna 0.675 mm long, with 15 flagellomeres. First flagellomere nearly twice as long as others and terminal flagellomere reduced and droplike. Scape cylindrical, 0.055 mm long and 0.035 mm wide. Pedicel nearly globular, about 0.045 mm long and wide. All flagellomeres bearing curved setae. Wing 1.2 mm long, 0.55 mm wide, hyaline (Fig. 8). Humeral vein reaching costal margin at 0.125 mm from wing base. Subcostal vein (Sc) distally fused with R1 at almost right angles, 0.465 mm from wing base, and with crossvein reaching costal margin. R1 reaching costal margin 0.885 mm from wing base. Rs separated from R1 at 0.335 mm from wing base, 0.09 mm basad of M1+2 and M3 fork. Rs four-branched, with all its branches extending to wing margin. Rs bifurcating into R2+3 and R4+5 0.45 mm distad of wing base. R2 and R3 separating 0.85 mm distally. R4 and R5 separating 0.175 mm distad of R2+3 base. R4 curved. R5 with strong angle in its basal part and distally very slightly curved. Crossvein r–m 0.635 mm distad of wing base. M1+2 and M3 diverging 0.275 mm distad of arculus. M1 and M2 bifurcating 0.36 mm distad of M1+2 base. M1 distally nearly straight. M2 slightly shorter than M1. M3 reaching wing margin at nearly 0.8 mm from wing base. CuA1 separating from CuA 0.395 mm distad of wing base. CuA2 rather developed, curved distally, 0.24 mm long. A1 well developed and reaching posterior wing margin. All main veins and wing margin bearing long macrotrichiae. Halteres 0.18 mm long. Knob 0.06 mm long and 0.025 mm wide. Stem 0.12 mm long. Thorax 0.5 mm long, 0.45 mm high. Pronotum gibbous with its upper surface bearing few long setae. Legs very long, distinctly longer than entire body. Abdomen 0.48 mm long excluding genital appendages, 0.31 mm wide. Dorsal surfaces of all abdominal segments bearing few setae. Female genital appendages (Figs 9, 10) covered by a thin layer of small gas bubbles but nevertheless discernable. Subgenital plate elongate, 0.085 mm long. Cerci rounded, 0.055 mm long and 0.06 mm wide. Subgenital plate and cerci bearing fine and dense setae. Holotype: specimen no. 3308/13, sex unknown; locality of Zhdanikha; mid-Cretaceous, Begichev Formation. Paratypes: specimens no. 3308/14, sex unknown, and no. 3308/15, female, from the same locality and horizon as the holotype.Published as part of Azar, Dany, Adaymeh, Carolle & Jreich, Nathalie, 2007, Paleopsychoda zherikhini, a new Cretaceous species of moth flies from Taimyr amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae), pp. 163-168 in African Invertebrates 48 (1) on pages 164-165, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.766754
Social theory and the sociological imagination: an interview with Nigel Dodd (1 of 2)
No full textPart I of our interview with Nigel Dodd, interviewed by Riad Azar. Nigel Dodd is Professor in the Sociology Department at the LSE. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1991 on the topic of Money in Social Theory, and lectured at the University of Liverpool before joining the LSE in 1995. Nigel’s main interests are in the sociology of money, economic sociology and classical and contemporary social thought. He is author of The Sociology of Money and Social Theory and Modernity (both published by Polity Press). His most recent book, The Social Life of Money, was published by Princeton University Press in September 2014
Eocenotrichia magnifica Garrouste, Azar & Nel, 2016, sp. nov.
No full textEocenotrichia magnifica sp. nov. Figs. 1–4 Material. Holotype PA 16841, stored in the Laboratory of Palaeontology, MNHN, Paris, France. Etymology. Named after the excellent preservation of the type specimen. Type horizon. Lowermost Eocene, Sparnacian, level MP 7 of the mammal fauna of Dormaal. Type locality. Le Quesnoy, Chevrière, region of Creil, Oise department, France. Diagnosis. As for the genus (vide supra); vein R 4 sigmoidal. Description. Body length 7.6 mm [female]. Head 0.75 mm long, 0.96 mm high, higher than long, subspherical, female with broad, raised postocular ridge; antenna elongate, 0.46 mm long, cylindrical, length 0.6 × head length; antennal style terminal, flagellum 0.3 mm long, notched; frons flat, not protruding anteriorly; mouthparts well developed, 0.42 mm long, distinctly shorter than head length; thorax 1.9 mm long, 1.7 mm high, scutum with dense pile of semi-appressed, very small setae; wing 4.2 mm long, ca. 1.3 mm wide; vein M 1 joining with R 5, cell r 5 petiolate to wing margin, cell r 5 large, 1.8 mm long, 0.4 mm wide; R 5 +M 1 0.2 mm long, ending at wing apex; R 4 sigmoidal, 0.6 mm long, emerging in distal third of cell [r 5]; apex of R 2 + 3 not far from level of base of R 4; vein M 2 absent; vein M 4 originating on discal cell and fused with M 3; costal margin ending at apex of vein R 5 +M 1; cubital veins terminating before wing margin; abdomen elongate and broad, width equal to thorax; abdomen 3.8 mm long, 1.2 mm wide; female genitalia: tergite 10 narrow and band-like, acanthophorite spines present, well developed in a marginal row; sternite 8 slightly shorter than tergite 8, posteriorly rounded. Male unknown. Discussion. Eocenotrichia gen. nov. is placed in the Scenopididae for the wing vein M 4 originating on the discal cell and fused with M 3; in the Scenopidinae for the cubital veins terminating before wing margin, vein M 2 absent, cell [m 1] wide, and in the Metatrichini Winterton & Ware, 2015 for the wing vein M 1 fused to R 5 (Winterton & Ware, 2015). Following the key to scenopinid genera of Winterton & Gharali (2011), within this tribe, Eocenotrichia runs to Propebrevitrichia Kelsey, 1969 in their couplet 25, for the following characters: mouthparts not atrophied; head shorter than high; relatively delicate flies with narrow tapered abdomen; antennal flagellum broad, notched apically; wing with vein R 4 branching from R 5 along distal half of cell [r 5]; female acanthophorite spines present well developed. It shares with Propebrevitrichia, the sister group of all other Metatrichini, the presence of female acanthophorite spines developed in a marginal row (plesiomorphic state for character 28 in Winterton & Ware, 2015), However, Eocenotrichia differs from this genus in that tergite 8 is slightly longer than sternite 8, and the body size is greater than 7 mm instead of being less than 4 mm long (Kelsey, 1969, 1971, 1976; Winterton, 2005). Remarks. As Propebrevitrichia is a South African genus that is the sister group of the clade that comprises all other modern Metatrichini, Winterton & Ware (2015: 23) proposed an African origin of the entire clade during the Late Cretaceous. The present discovery of a Metatrichini in the Earliest Eocene supports the age proposed by these author for this clade. However, the reduced contacts between the African plate and Europe during the period from the Late Cretaceous to the Eocene, questions their hypothesis of an African origin for the Metatrichini. The modern Scenopinidae have predacious larvae associated with wood-boring larvae, termites, woodrat nests, bird’s nests, and carpet beetle larvae (Kelsey, 1981). Birds, termites and Dermestidae are recorded from the Oise amber, suggesting similar biology for Eocenotrichia (Nel & Bourguet, 2006; Kirejtshuk & Nel, 2013).Published as part of Garrouste, Romain, Azar, Dany & Nel, Andre, 2016, The oldest accurate record of Scenopinidae in the Lowermost Eocene amber of France (Diptera: Brachycera), pp. 444-450 in Zootaxa 4093 (3) on pages 445-446, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/25532
Seroepidemiology and risk factors of hepatitis C virus infection in East Azerbaijan, Iran: a population-based Azar Cohort study
No full textBackground: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a blood-borne virus. It is a major global public health problem and can cause both acute and chronic hepatitis. The aim of this study was to report the epidemiological features of HCV infection and risk factors based on the data from Azar Cohort, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. Methods: The population of this study comprised the people in the age range of 35-70 years from Azar Cohort, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. The study was conducted between 2015 and 2016. Based on cluster sampling, 4, 949 people were selected and invited to complete the questionnaire and perform the tests. Blood samples collected in this study were analyzed to detect the presence of antibodies against HCV using enzyme immunoassay (ELISA) Kit. The positive samples were re-tested by qualitative HCV-RNA polymerase chain reaction. All data were analyzed using SPSS version 19.0 software. Results: The mean age of the participants was 49.15±9.02 years. Of these participants, 54.3 (n=2686) were females. Seven people (0.14) were detected as HCV positive and the highest frequency was seen in the age range of 40-50 (0.16). There was a statistical significant relationship between history of hospitalization (P=0.02) and history of abnormal urine (P=0.01) with the frequency of HCV infection. Conclusion: The findings of this study indicated that the frequency of hepatitis C virus infection is 0.14 in the general population of Azar Cohort
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