Age period cohort analysis: a review of what we should and shouldn’t do
Context: Age, period and birth cohort (APC) effects have been known for decades in biological, health and social sciences. However, exact collinearity between these three (Age = Year – Birth Year) leads to difficulty estimating these effects.
Andrew Bell
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A Critique on the Book Historical Origin of Qajar Tribe [PDF]
The Qajar dynasty, which seized political power in Iran at the beginning of the thirteenth century AH, had a tribal origin, but despite extensive research, its origins remain unclear.
Mohsen Rahmati
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Analysis of the political – military functions of entertainment of the Seljuk period [PDF]
Introduction Man has a dual existence, and just as he needs food to cultivate his physical powers, he must take measures to cultivate his spiritual powers.
soleyman Heidari, reza derikvandy
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Neural circuit for social authentication in song learning
Human and bird infants acquire vocal patterns from live, not mimetic, tutors. Here, the authors identified the neuronal circuits to authenticate social information in zebra finch song learning, suggesting a brain developmental mechanism via social ...
Jelena Katic +2 more
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Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most common causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and chemotherapy is still a standard strategy for treating patients with advanced GC.
Le Zhu +10 more
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The Fibonacci-circulant sequences in the binary polyhedral groups [PDF]
In 2017 Deveci et al. defined the Fibonacci-circulant sequences of the first and second kinds as shown, respectively:x_n^1 = -x_(n-1)^1+x_(n-2)^1-x_(n-3)^1 for n≥4,where x_1^1=x_2^1=0 and x_3^1=1andx_n^2 = -x_(n-3)^2-x_(n-4)^2+x_(n-5)^2 for n≥6 ...
Erdal Karaduman, Omur Deveci
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The Factors behind Attention of Historians to Hafiz Shirazi's Poetry and Its Function in Historical Resources (From Timurid Empire to Qajar Dynasty 14-19 Ad) [PDF]
Poetry, an effective and useful medium, has had a wide-spread presence in Islamic Iranian historiography texts and has taken various narrative functions. Hafiz is our historical and Persian memory. He is one of the poets that attract the attention of the
Mohammad Keshavarz Beyzai
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Early Auditory Experience Modifies Neuronal Firing Properties in the Zebra Finch Auditory Cortex
Songbirds learn to sing much as humans learn to speak. In zebra finches, one of the premier songbird models, males learn to sing for later courtship through a multistep learning process during the developmental period.
Takashi Kudo +3 more
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Prevalence of sexual experience among Korean adolescent: age-period-cohort analysis [PDF]
OBJECTIVES Since exposure to sexual content and early sexual initiation among adolescents have become serious social issues in Korea, an in-depth analysis of trends in the prevalence of sexual experience among Korean adolescents is necessary to project ...
Yongho Jee, Gyuyoung Lee
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Nationalist Historiography in Reza Shah Era and Its Emphasis on Ethnic Affinity between Kurds and Iranians [PDF]
The important role and position of nationalism in the unity of people in society caused the ancient nationalism to turn into one of the most prominent parts of its official ideology and policy in Pahlavi I government. Since proving the ethnic unity could
Hossein Rasouli
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