Diabetic nephropathy refers to any deleterious effect on kidney structure and/or function due to diabetes mellitus. One of the most severe and common complications of diabetes is renal disease. The majority of patients with 18 years’ duration show the signs of diabetic renal involvement (1-3). About one third of patients with type 1 or 2 diabetes mellitus develop end stage renal disease which p...

Aesthetics of everyday life is one the branches aesthetic knowledge. Until 20th century, classical aesthetics focused on subject visual arts and paid less attention to formation fine in context human nature’s daily experience. During last few decades, a movement emerged that, by avoiding that one-sided art-oriented approach, tried create close link between experience other areas life. This led ...

in this paper, a house is assumedas an expression of culture. it has been tried to study a qajar1 house in tabriz, in terms of its ties with cultural context.methods and viewpoints of amos rapoport have been used in order to identify and peruse the circumstance of this relationship. the main reason for using rapoport's viewpoints to understand salmasi house, as a case study, in addition to...

Arefeh Kazemi 1,*, Antonio Toral 2, Andy Way 3, Amirhassan Monadjemi 1,* and Mohammadali Nematbakhsh 1 1 Department of Computer Engineering, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran; [email protected] 2 Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen, Groningen 9712 EK, The Netherlands; [email protected] 3 ADAPT Centre, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Du...

Determining the Potential Habitat of Astragalus verus using CART Regression Decision Tree Algorithm (Case Study: West Isfahan Province)

BACKGROUND The quality of drinking water has an important role in human infection and disease. This study was aimed at comparing polymerase chain reaction and culture in detecting Escherichia coli, Salmonella species and Vibrio cholera in tape water and bottled drinking water in various seasons in Isfahan province, Iran. METHODS A total of 448 water samples from tap water and bottled mineral ...

BACKGROUND Many studies have been performed regarding the prevalence of hepatitis E in the general population, but there is controversial evidence for an increased risk of the infection in patients on maintenance hemodialysis (HD). OBJECTIVES The primary end point of the present study was to determine if the prevalence of anti-hepatitis E virus IgG (anti-HEV IgG) is higher in patients on main...

BACKGROUND Considering the importance to determine the reasons for the higher occurrence of congenital hypothyroidism (CH) in Iran, in this study we report the prevalence of permanent CH (PCH) in Isfahan province 7 years after initiation of CH screening program in Isfahan. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, children with a primary diagnosis of CH studied. They clinically examined and thei...

1Medical Radiation Department and Medical Imaging Research Center, School of Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran 2Center for Research in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering and Physics Unit, Radiotherapy Department, Namazi Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 3Radiology Department, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 4Medical Physics Depa...