We have undertaken a randomised clinical trial comparing two methods of reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament in patients with chronic instability. We used an ipsilateral bone-patellar-tendon-bone autograft in 27 patients and the Ligament Advancement Reinforcement System (LARS) artificial ligament in 26. Assessment before and at two, six, 12 and 24 months after surgery, included the ...

the main objective of this research is to determine water use efficiency (wue) of some major crops under farmer's management in the different region of iran including kerman, hamedan, moghan, golestan and khuzestan provinces. the research also attempted to assess and identify the sources of inefficiencies in improving wue. based on methodology, wue was determined by measuring crop yield (k...

the effect of chair position on respiratory parameters in patients undergoing mechanical ventilation     fallahinia ghh [1] ,baghcheghi n [2] ,oshvandi kh [3] *,taher a [4] , soltanian ar [5]     received: 7 feb, 2013 accepted: 15 may, 2013    abstract  background & aims : there are many barriers to the movement of patients requiring mechanical ventilation and these patients are at risk for com...

OBJECTIVE To study on the frequency of hepatitis B and C infections in chronic psychiatric patients in Day Night Patient Care Centres in Hamedan in 2006-2007. METHODS This is a cross sectional study done on 170 patients with chronic mental disorders admitted in patient care institutions of Hamedan in 2006-2007. Positive tests for HCV-Ab were confirmed by RIBBA test. RESULTS Of 170 patients,...

INTRODUCTION To date, no rating scales for detecting apathy in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients have been validated in Spanish. For this reason, the aim of this study was to validate a Spanish version of Lille apathy rating scale (LARS) in a cohort of PD patients from Spain. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS 130 PD patients and 70 healthy controls were recruited to participate in the study. Apathy wa...

With the growth of the low altitude remote sensing (LARS) industry in recent years, their practical application in precision agriculture seems all the more possible. However, only a few scientists have reported using LARS to monitor crop conditions. Moreover, there have been concerns regarding the feasibility of such systems for producers given the issues related to the post-processing of image...

Professor Goodhart has written a thoughtful and interesting paper on the conduct of monetary policy at the Bank of England. He uses a unique database, containing the inflation and output forecasts of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), to examine the Committee’s behaviour over the past five years and to test a number of intriguing hypotheses. The descriptive nature of the paper provides a usef...