Background & aim: Cesarean section (C-section) has often been one of the most common surgical procedures for women. It can be associated with several psychological and mental factors. Recently, spirituality related to adaptation with stressful situations has also been emphasized. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between spiritual health and pain intensity...

Background: The use of antibiotics is common, but its excessive or improper use leads to antibiotic resistance. Consequently, scientists have been interested in exploring traditional medicine to identify a new source of anti-bacterial agents. The present study aimed to conduct a systematic review to determine the anti-bacterial activity of Satureja khuzestanica Jamzad (SKJ) and Zataria multiflo...

the appearance of sowbugs (hemilepistus shirazi schuttz) in the sedimentation basins of the artificial recharge of groundwater (arg) systems in the gareh bygone plain (gbp) in southern iran is considered an ecological breakthrough in desertification control. this study was performed at the kowsar floodwater spreading and aquifer management research, training and extension station in gbp, 200 km...

understanding the essence of movement and knowing how it exists in the physical world, is considered one of the most important philosophical issues in which wise men were occupied with, whether in the greek era or the islamic one. and if the presence of change was of much certainty as well as movement in the physical world, then, the most important issue is the study of how it is present outwar...

six web search engines, namely, altavista, excite, go, google, hot bot and lycos, were compared and evaluated in terms of their search capabilities (i.e., duplicate, false drops, mirror sites, dead links) and retrieval performances (i.e., precision) using sample queries drawn from real reference questions from the reference desk of the central library of shiraz university (mirzay-e-shirazi libr...

during some decades ago, iran hosted much more afghan refugees. different researches, content analyses of speeches, legislatives interviews and different social news show that negative emotions toward afghans exist among some part of people and legislatives, so that they recognize afghans as criminals. therefore, the purpose of this study was social construction of these negative emotions forma...

paratesticular sarcomas have happened rarely. due to the infrequency of this malignant disease and its diverse histopathologic subtypes, no standard treatment would be available. multiple treatments have reported in literature with different results. we have reported a 55 years old man with a 30 years history of paratesticular mass. after multiple operations, radical orchiectomy has revealed li...

background : the aim of this study was to determine the antibacterial activity of zataria multiflora boiss (avishan-e shirazi) and carum copticum (zenian) extracts on vibrio cholerae american type culture collection (atcc14035)and v. cholerae persian type culture collection (ptcc1611) strains. methods : antimicrobial effects of the extracts were assayed by disc diffusion and broth microdilution...

sa'adi shirazi, as one of the greatest persian poets, was also fluent in arabic language. despite his fluency in arabic, he has few poems in this language; however these few poems show his high position among iranian poets who composed in arabic. metaphor as an important rhetoric figure would be analyzed in sa’adi’s poems to show how much the manner of metaphor use, both in terms of form o...