INTRODUCTION We performed a bibliometric search to evaluate the number of papers written by the Iranian nephrologists. MATERIALS AND METHODS We considered all peer-reviewed articles published by nephrologists in biomedical journals quoted by the Medline database and the IranMedex (an Iranian database for indexing medical articles of local journals) between 1997 and 2007. The findings were ana...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The evaluation of disease activity in axial spondyloarthritis (SpA) is complex and multifactorial. Moreover, patients and physicians have different perspectives of the disease and none of the current single-item or combined indexes adequately unifies both perspectives. Recent efforts have been made to improve disease activity measurement in axial SpA. RECENT FINDINGS The Ass...

Several numeric measures have been proposed to evaluate the individual researchers' scientific performance. Among these measures, h-index is the most common and well recognized measure of research productivity and impact in scientific communities. However, empirical investigations and recent inspections revealed some shortcomings and limitations of this measure. In order to complement these lim...

BACKGROUND Delivery of sexual health services rely on rigorous facts extracted from surveys, but often those facts cannot be available due to the lack of culturally-sensitive questionnaires. OBJECTIVE our aim was to show the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the Acquisition of Sexual Information Test (ASIT), a measure selected due to its assemblages with Iranian culture. MA...

Benzidine dihydrochloride in the presence of dimethylsulfoxide reacts with myeloperoxidase contained within the granules of polymorphonuclear leukocytes obtained from the oral cavity. A blue meriquinoid oxidation product is formed in the presence of hydrogen peroxide, which can be extracted from the granules with a combination of methyl alcohol and dimethylsulfoxide. A stable yellow-brown pigme...

Platelet count: a simple measure of activity in Crohn's disease Thrombocytosis may occur in inflammatory bowel disease and probably represents a non-specific response to inflammation.1 2 We have observed raised platelet counts in patients with active Crohn's disease, and we therefore investigated whether the platelet count is a useful index of disease activity. We studied 57 patients with Crohn...

This paper brings together Dana Scott’s measure-based semantics for the propositional modal logic S4, and recent work in Dynamic Topological Logic. In a series of recent talks, Scott showed that the language of S4 can be interpreted in the Lebesgue measure algebra, M, or algebra of Borel subsets of the real interval, [0, 1], modulo sets of measure zero. Conjunctions, disjunctions and negations ...