55 research outputs found
33 Tips to Maximize Articles’ Citation Frequency
Full text linkThe number of citations contributes to over 30% in the university rankings. Therefore, most of the scientists are looking for an effective method to increase their citation record. On the other hand, increase research visibility in the academic world in order to receive comments and citations from fellow researchers across the globe, is essential.
Publishing a high quality paper in scientific journals is only the mid point towards receiving citation in the future. The balance of the journey is completed by disseminating the publications by using the proper “Research Tools”. This presentation provides 33 different tips for increasing the citation frequencies.Cite as: Nader Ale Ebrahim. "33 Tips to Maximize Articles’ Citation Frequency" Equitable Society Research Cluster (ESRC)-Research Seminar 2014. Eastin Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Jun. 2014. Available at: http://works.bepress.com/aleebrahim/8
Mohammad Ebrahim Jafari: Aesthetics of Painting in Poetry
Full text linkThe article is devoted to the creative heritage of the outstanding figure of Iranian culture — poet and artist Mohammad Ebrahim Jafari (1940–2018). The novelty of the presented research is determined by the almost complete absence of scientific works devoted to this issue: basic biographical facts, analysis of artistic language and the specific imagery of M. E. Jafari are poorly represented even in the Persian language. The purpose of the work is to identify the features of the national-cultural horizon of the synthetic genre combining painting and poetry developed by Jafari. To achieve this goal, it was necessary, firstly, to trace the poet’s biography; secondly, to clarify the nature of the artistic images created by him at different stages of his life and to analyze the original method of the author’s initiative as a way of artistic enrichment of the new synthetic genre. The multifaceted nature of the research subject determined the need for an interdisciplinary approach and the use of a complex of methods such as biographical, hermeneutic, and comparative typological. The author of the article has studied all the video materials and interviews of the poet published to date, his paintings, as well as a collection of selected poems. The author of the article also translated, for the first time, from Persian all the poetic material presented in the text. The study showed that M. E. Jafari, who does not differentiate the forms of creativity, easily transfers the stylistic techniques of his paintings to poems, which fills his lyrics with different shades of colors and smells. Poetic rhythm can be seen in his paintings, at the same time, abstract pictorial images embody the most significance for the poet in terms of acuity of perception, creating images of space and time as a unique experience, extremely concrete in its strength and depth. The masterly combination of abstract expressiveness and specificity of the sensual image makes it possible to attribute the deeply personal artistic creativity of M. E. Jafari to the cultural wave of new poetry, which meets the basic principles of the philosophy of Iranian modernism
Sitagliptin Suppresses Apoptotic Cell Death and Histological Changes in the Ovaries of Rats with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Full text linkBackground and Aim: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most typical endocrine disorder affecting reproductive-aged women. The patients with PCOS show decreased follicular granule cells' maturation in their ovaries, probably associated with cell apoptosis. This study was designed to investigate Sitagliptin's protective effect against the apoptotic mechanism in PCOS via evaluating apoptosis rate and the mRNA expressions of apoptotic and anti-apoptotic molecules in PCOS rats.
Methods: PCOS was induced by injection of estradiol valerate (4 mg/kg, I.M.). Twenty-two female rats divided into four groups: Control (n=5), PCOS+Vehicle (n=5), PCOS+ Sitagliptin 25 mg/kg (n=6) and PCOS+ Sitagliptin 50 mg/kg (n=6). Hematoxylin and eosin staining were used to determine qualitative changes in the ovary follicles. The apoptotic index was examined by TUNEL assay, and the quantitative polymerase chain reaction was performed to detect expression levels of Bax and Bcl-2.
Results: Bax mRNA expression was up-regulated (1.38-folds), and Bcl-2 mRNA expression was down-regulated (0.45-folds) in PCOS rats' ovarian tissues. Sitagliptin did not change Bax expression but increased the Bcl-2 mRNA expression (1.95-folds). The apoptosis index was increased in the PCOS group compared with the control group. The number of cystic follicles and pre-antral follicles increased the number of corpus luteum was decreased in PCOS rats compared to control rats. Sitagliptin decreased apoptosis rate and prevented the increase of cystic and pre-antral follicle numbers compared to the PCOS group.
Conclusion: In conclusion, Sitagliptin might have a major role in preventing PCOS development due to its anti-apoptotic properties on PCOS rats' ovaries.
*Corresponding Author: Mohammad Ebrahim Rezvani, Email: [email protected];
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6146-806X
Please cite this article as: Safaeian A, Zare Mehrjerdi F, Yadegari M, Ebrahim Rezvani M. Sitagliptin Suppresses Apoptotic Cell Death and Histological Changes in the Ovaries of Rats with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Arch Med Lab Sci. 2021;7:1-9 (e22). https://doi.org/10.22037/amls.v7.3495
Cómputo con palabras para la evaluación de pares estudiantiles en presentaciones orales
Full text linkPeer assessment in an oral presentation can motivate and give more sense of responsibility to students. In recent years, various methods have been proposed to evaluate peers. In this paper, a novel peer online assessment method is proposed for oral presentation using perceptual computing. The output of the proposed system can be a numerical score for the overall assessment of a student in the presentation, which allows comparison and ranking of student performance. Furthermore, a linguistic evaluation that describes the student's performance is obtained from the system. A case study has been conducted to show the effectiveness of the proposed method; then the results are analyzed and reviewed.La evaluación por pares en una presentación oral puede motivar y dar más sentido de responsabilidad a los estudiantes. En los últimos años, se han propuesto varios métodos para evaluar a los pares. En este artículo, se propone un método novedoso de evaluación en línea entre pares para la presentación oral utilizando la computación perceptiva. El resultado del sistema propuesto puede ser una puntuación numérica para la evaluación general de un estudiante en la presentación, que permite comparar y clasificar el desempeño del estudiante. además, del sistema se obtiene una evaluación lingüística que describe el desempeño del alumno. Se ha realizado un estudio de caso para mostrar la efectividad del método propuesto, luego se analizan y revisan los resultados
Author Correction: Smartphone‑based device for point‑of‑care diagnostics of pulmonary infammation using convolutional neural networks (CNNs)
Full text linkCorrection to: Scientific Reportshttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54939-4, published online 22 March 2024 The original version of this Article contained an error in the author name S. Mohammad-Reza Taheri which was incorrectly given as Seyed Mohammad Reza Taheri. In addition, an affiliation was omitted for S. Mohammad-Reza Taheri. The correct affiliations for S. Mohammad-Reza Taheri are listed below. Groningen University, University Medical Center groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713AW Groningen, the Netherlands. Condensed Matter National Laboratory, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran. Moreover, Hossein Simaee was incorrectly affiliated with ‘Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran 1417614335, Iran’ and ‘Integrated Biophysics and Bioengineering Lab (iBL), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran 1417614335, Iran’. The correct affiliation for Hossein Simaee is listed below. Cardiac Primary Prevention Research Center, Cardiovascular Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. The original Article has been corrected.</p
Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency
Full text linkDue to the effect of citation impact on The Higher Education (THE) world university ranking system, most of the researchers are looking for some helpful techniques to increase their citation record. This paper by reviewing the relevant articles extracts 33 different ways for increasing the citations possibilities. The results show that the article visibility has tended to receive more download and citations. This is probably the first study to collect over 30 different ways to improve the citation record. Further study is needed to explore and expand these techniques in specific fields of study in order to make the results more precisely
The History of Vali in West of Iran
Full text linkValian family possessed a pedigree which is subject of debate because of its content and author. The name of Mohammad Jafar ibn Mohammad Ali Nasabeh appears At the bottom of pedigree. He was a genealogist of Qajar Era. The preparation date of this pedigree was written on the bottom as 1245 AH. It was during Hassan Khan reign who was Vali at the time till 1255 AH. Hussein Khan had ruled Poshtkooh for 30 years when pedigree was prepared. Mohammad Jafar Nasabeh noted on the pedigree that the original one was in the verge of destruction when he wrote the new one. The present research titled the history of Vali in west of Iran, investigated social and economic structure of Vali period and also their background and history. The research method in the present study is descriptive and data were collected by librarian method. The data of the present research were extracted from valuabe surces such as books, papers, Internet and so on. The findings of the present research indicated that The government of Lorestan satraps was continuous to early of Qajar government. Fathalishah Qajar after fixing his government in the country, appointed his son Mohammad Ali as satrap of western areas of Iran. During 1908, the son of Gholamreza Khan, Yadollah Khan was confirmed by king. During first regimen of Pahlavi (1907), Aligholi Khan the son of Gholam reza Khan that was satrap of Postkooh, after escaping of his father went to Baghdad and made a riot against Rezah Shah that was removed by Razmara. Keywords: Vali, west area of Iran, Qajar, Pahlav
Remembering the legacy of Professor Mohammad Hashemi: a pioneer in molecular genetic studies in southeast Iran (1965–2019)
No full textProfessor Mohammad Hashemi was a clinical biochemist, and cancer genetics scientist. He has been chair and head of department of clinical biochemistry at Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. He has played an important role in the improvement of understanding of genetics of disease in southeast Iran. He was also a part of international team for the discovery of the role of calprotectin (S100A8/A9) in cancer biology via regulation of cell fate in tumor cells. He had over 300 peer reviewed scientific publications and trained significant numbers of high quality personals (>40) in the field of biomedical sciences. His sudden death in 2019, shocked national and international scientific society but his scientific legacy will remain alive forever.The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the pdf file of the accepted manuscript may differ slightly from what is displayed on the item page. The information in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript reflects the original submission by the author
Criticism of the Translation of the Marked Informational Structure in Najib Mahfouz's Novels (Case study: the novels "Al-Shahaz" and "Al-Tariq")
No full textDeviation from the usual lexical arrangement in any language creates constructions called marked informational constructions. Marked constructions have pragmatic meanings and a communicative role in the discourse, and since translation is a communicative act, it is necessary to pay attention to these constructions in order to establish a pragmatic and communicative balance between the discourse of source and target. In this research, after examining the theoretical foundations of information construction and the initiation process, which is one of the most important information constructions, seven examples of Persian translations of the novels "Al-Shahaz" and "Al-Tariq" by Naguib Mahfouz, a famous Egyptian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, are shown in a descriptive-analytical manner. The novel "Al-Shahaz" was translated into Farsi by Mohammad Dehghani under the title "Gada" and the novel "Al-Tariq" by Mohammad Reza Marashipour under the title "Rah". In the works of Najib Mahfouz, including the two mentioned novels, deviations from the usual lexical arrangement have marked informative constructions of signs, which make their correct transmission in the same signified form necessary to express the author's intention. The results obtained from this research have shown that the translators often translated with their own linguistic symbols and as a result, they translated the marked constructions in an unmarked form. This has caused a part of the meaning intended by the author to not be expressed, and the communication and role balance between the two discourses has not been achieved
Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency
Full text linkDue to the effect of citation impact on The Higher Education (THE) world university ranking system, most of the researchers are looking for some helpful techniques to increase their citation record. This paper by reviewing the relevant articles extracts 33 different ways for increasing the citations possibilities. The results show that the article visibility has tended to receive more download and citations. This is probably the first study to collect over 30 different ways to improve the citation record. Further study is needed to explore and expand these techniques in specific fields of study in order to make the results more precisely.Available online: http://ssrn.com/abstract=234458
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