Starting 2012 with an academic feast

2012 - starting with overweight and obesity.

The number of papers addressing overweight and obesity submitted to this journal is still substantial, as previously reported. As the first issue for the new year we have chosen Overweight and obesity as the hot topic. You can find papers on antioxidant capacity in obese women, growth reference curves for Portuguese adolescents and validity of self-reported height and weight in Austrian adults....

Starting to Publish Academic Research as a Doctoral Student

This article presents some opinions, views and advice that graduate students might consider in order to assess and improve their success as new scholars. Contrary to the famous motto ‘publish or perish,’ we argue that publishing academic research should be headed by intrinsic motivation for becoming a scholar and not by external pressures of social or professional requirements to produce schola...

Factors Affecting Academic Self-Efficacy and Its Association with Academic Achievment among Students of Bushehr University Medical Sciences 2012-13

Introduction: As a motivating factor, self- efficacy increases academic performance and decreases stress. Therefore, determining factors influencing self- efficacy could be significantly useful in improving students’ academic achievement and consequently development of educational system. The aim of this study is to investigate factors affecting academic self efficacy and its association with a...

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An Isolated Mass in the Palm, Starting Manifestation of Sarcoidosis

  Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease that is characterized with noncaseating granulomatous nodules which present in multiple organs specially lungs (90%) . Incidence of masses due to Sarcoidosis in upper extremity is low and most cases present in association with involvement of pulmonary hilary lymph nodes. In this article we present a rare case of Sarcoidosis which presented as a single soft ti...