it is my great pleasure to announce the publication of the first edition of the journal of craniomaxillofacial research and i would therefore like to take this opportunity to point out a brief history of the field ofmaxillofacial surgery and also the craniomaxillofacial research center in iran. the discipline of oral and maxillofacial surgery was initially formed and taught under the name of or...

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Siân Lindley is a social scientist with an interest in how technology can be designed to fit, and how it is shaped by, the social context in which it is used; she is a Researcher in the Socio-Digital Systems group at Microsoft Research Cambridge.ABSTRACT This paper presents findings from a field study of eight persons over the age of 50, who were undertaking a range of activities with the inten...

This report is an overview on co-design in an instructional context with intergenerational teams of adults and children aged 7–11 year old. Adults and children become design partners in the design development process of new technology. I will start by introducing the main ideas of co-design. Then I will focus on the user research methods used in co-design sessions. For describing them concretel...

The number of physicians involved in clinical research continues to decline. Financial and administrative barriers appear to be primarily responsible, although inadequate community-based infrastructure has also contributed significantly to this troubling phenomenon. Therefore, novel physician-friendly research models amenable to conducting efficient clinical research are necessary. The physicia...

Background: Iran has achieved rapid scientific growth in the past two decades. Considerable growth in scientific publications by Iranian dermatologists matches the pace of Iran’s scientific publications in the previous decade. In this study, we aim to identify the current trends in Iranian dermatology publications and authorship over the past decade.Methods: We compared papers indexed in the ME...

In the last issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, Dr. Reza Afshari raised the question of what are the best scientific areas of focus of toxicology for “low income countries and how such research might be achieved (1). South-south collaboration, in which developing countries share resources, was one of the proposed solutions. Rather than limit discussion to “low income” coun...

Background: The perspective of scientific authority in Iran, by the year 1435, requires a growing strong generation with a sense of self-esteem, academic endeavor and responsible in today's competitive world. Strategic planning of human resources and education of youth with talent, commitment, vitality and hope requires a national will along with adequate resources. The aim of this study was to...

Epidemiology can be considered as a very old science. For example, John Graunt, a statistician, published Natural and Political Observations. In the Bills of Mortality in 1662, he analyzed the mortality rolls in London before the Great Plague, presented one of the first life tables, and reported time trends for many diseases. He provided statist...