one-hundred and sixteen children with esrd were registered in shiraz pediatric hemodialysis center in nemazee hospital, a referral center in the south of iran, from 1990 to 1999. very small children are not dialysed in this center due to technical problems. the age range of children in this center was 2-16 years, mean age was 10.4±3.6 years and male to female ratio was 1.4. major causes of esrd...

Establishment of rating curves are often required by the hydrologists for flow estimates in the streams, rivers etc. Measurement of discharge in a river is a time-consuming, expensive, and difficult process and the conventional approach of regression analysis of stage-discharge relation does not provide encouraging results especially during the floods. P

Once the protocol has been agreed, it is time to start the review. Conducting a thorough search to identify relevant studies and documenting the search are major parts of the review. The selection of studies, assessment of their quality and synthesis of extracted information will follow. Throughout the review, it is essential that good communication be maintained between those responsible for c...