OBJECTIVE Cerebral palsy (CP) is a non-progressive CNS disorder due to an insult to the growing brain, usually occurring in the first two years of life. During the recent years, its etiology has been changed; perinatal and postnatal insults are not considered as its main causes in developed countries any more. The aim of this study was to evaluate the causes of CP in children in southern Iran. ...

In most rainfed production areas in Iran, where wheat fallow is common, crop yield and resource sustainability could be improved by changing to more diverse crop rotation. It seems necessary to identify crop cultivars suitable for such diversification. This study was aimed to determine responses of two common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cultivars with different growth habits (Sayyad as an inde...

Triceps skinfold thickness charts of a random sample of 2,234 healthy school children (1,161 boys and 1,073 girls) in Shiraz, Iran are presented. Triceps skinfold thickness increases by age and is higher in girls than boys, except for upper extreme centiles. Triceps skinfold thickness may be used with reasonable success to detect childhood obesity, which would be of great importance in public h...

♦Corresponding Author: Negar Azarpira, MD Organ Transplant Research Center, Pathology Department, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Tel: +98-711-647 4331 Email: [email protected] Introduction The presence of synchronous malignant tumors in patients with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the pharynx is not a rare event. This is important because it can decrease the overall su...

BACKGROUND The present study was carried out to assess the effects of community nutrition intervention based on advocacy approach on malnutrition status among school-aged children in Shiraz, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS This case-control nutritional intervention has been done between 2008 and 2009 on 2897 primary and secondary school boys and girls (7-13 years old) based on advocacy approach i...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is the greatest public health problem and is considered as the silent epidemic of the 21st century. In Iran, there are approximately 1.5 million diabetic patients. Before the discovery of insulin, medicinal plants were widely used for the treatment of diabetes in Iran. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the indigenous plants used for the treatment of diabetes in Shir...

Article Type Research Article Authors Mazloum S. R.1 PhD, Abbasi Teshnizi M.2 PhD, Kianinejad A.3 BSc, Gandomkar F.* MSc C I T A T I O N L I N K S Article History Received: September 13, 2011 Accepted: October 10, 2012 ePublished: November 5, 2012 Correspondence Address: Postal Code 7188694348, No. 112. 3 Alley, Vahdat Street, Maliabad, Shiraz, Iran. Phone: +989173397847 Fax: +987116263782 f.ga...

The present study aims to determine the extent which online learning (or e-learning) motivation during COVID-19 Pandemic for undergraduate students at Shiraz University in Shiraz, Iran. It also plans compare students’ level of learning, based on their gender and field study. For these purposes, researcher adopted a quantitative comparative research design, using questionnaire was developed chec...

To create a highly efficient photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) system and maximise the energy exergy efficiency, this study aims to propose an innovative configuration of PV-T comprising wavy tubes with twisted-tape inserts. Following validation numerical model, parametric has been conducted assess geometrical effects twisted tape tubes, as well coolant fluid type velocity, on overall performance sys...