AIM To present the Croatian system of ethical review of clinical trials and assessment outcomes of the applications reviewed by the Croatian Central Ethics Committee. METHODS Clinical trial applications reviewed by the Croatian Central Ethics Committee, which has the legal mandate to review clinical trials of medicinal products and medical devices, were retrospectively analyzed from May 2004 ...

Background: Anxiety reduction in patients with myocardial infarction (MI) is essential due to severe complications. The current methods of treatments are primarily medical, while effective and safe treatments which accord with cultural and religious beliefs appear to have higher performance. Aim: survey the effect of Quran on the anxiety of patients with MI admitted to CCU. Methods: The present...

A data and safety monitoring board (DSMB) is a multidisciplinary group of scientists that monitors a randomized clinical trial. Although DSMBs have been used for clinical trials in cardiology, oncology, and infectious disease for decades, it was not until the late 1990s that the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) initially required a DSMB for some of its larger trials. The NIMH mandate ...

284 Correspondence (‹letiflim): Azim Honarmand, M.D. Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Tel: +0 9 8 9 1 3 1 1 0 2 3 2 7 Fax ( F a k s ): +0 9 8 3 1 1 2 3 6 1 5 9 4 e-mail ( e p o s t a ) : h o n a r m a n d @ m e d . m u i . a c . ir Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfah...

(May 2016 – ongoing) Research Associate, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. Topic: Exploration of the robot-city interaction in smart cities. (context: MK:Smart project). Research areas: Robotics, Knowledge Representation, Smartcities, Internet of Things, Semantic Technologies. Minor tasks: Development of Web and mobile applications to support the sma...

Many researchers assume that the most appropriate way to express the systematic aspects of language is in terms of a set of rules. For instance, there is a systematic relationship between the written and spoken forms of most English words (e.g., GAVE ), and this relationship can be expressed in terms of a fairly concise set of grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPC) rules (e.g., G , A E , V ). In...