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OBJECTIVE We aimed to determine the clinical and electroencephalographic (EEG) characteristics of the patients with West syndrome (WS) in south Iran. MATERIALS & METHODS In this retrospective study, all patients with a clinical diagnosis of WS were recruited in the outpatient epilepsy clinic at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences between September 2008 and May 2012. Age, gender, age at seiz...

BACKGROUND Infections caused by Hepatitis B are one of the world health's most serious problems. According to assessments, nearly 500,000 to 1.2 million people die each year due to chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver and hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatitis B is one of the diseases which can be transferred through blood and its products. Clinical importance of genotypes of hepatitis B viru...

BACKGROUND Despite the enhancement in health outcomes worldwide, health inequity and inequality is one of the most relevant topics both for health policy and public health. This research was designed to decompose the health inequality of people living in Shiraz, south-west Iran. METHODS Data were obtained from a multistage-sample survey conducted in Shiraz from April to May 2012, to find dete...

OBJECTIVE Precocious puberty is of concern because of the underlying disorders, the short adult stature, and the psychosocial difficulties. This study was carried out in order to evaluate the characteristics of children referred to pediatric endocrinology clinic with diagnosis of precocious puberty. METHODS In a cross-sectional study between February 2007 and September 2009, all of the childr...

BACKGROUND Lymphomas are a group of malignancies affecting B, T and NK cells. Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) enzyme is one of the known inflammatory factors which increase during the inflammation process. Increase in COX-2 expression inhibits apoptosis and increases tumor cells invasion and angiogenesis. Increase in the COX-2 gene expression is seen in a group of cancers. Specific COX-2 inhibition al...

Introduction I read with great interest the contribution of Maleki et al. entitled ”Normal range of bleeding time in urban and rural areas of Borujerd, west of Iran” that has been published in recent issue of ARYA Atherosclerosis. The bleeding time test (BTT) is an old invivo test for evaluation of platelets function and vascular integrity with low producibility. Its procedure and performance i...

In this paper we propose a conditional logic IBC to represent iterated belief revision. We define an iterated belief revision system by strengthening the postulates proposed by Darwiche and Pearl [3]. First, following the line of Darwiche and Pearl, we modify AGM postulates to make belief revision a function of epistemic states rather than of belief sets. Then we propose a set of postulates for...

BACKGROUND Deserts are the main sources of emitted dust, and are highly responsive to wind erosion. Low content of soil moisture and lack of vegetation cover lead to fine particle's release. One of the semi-arid bare lands in Iran, located in the South-West of Iran in Khoozestan province, was selected to investigate Sand and Dust storm potential. METHODS This paper focused on the metrological...

The aim of this study was the spatial and temporal monitoring soil erosion patterns in Iran. G2 model used, as an appropriate tool to provide required month-time step country-wide loss maps statistical outputs. input parameters were derived with field surveys remote sensing imagery (MODIS, SRTM, SPOT, Sentinel-2 scenes). An innovation for consideration snow cover effect on rainfall erosivity. I...