background : there are a few studies to assess nurses’ sleep quality and sleepiness in the iranian context. this study thus was carried out to examine the prevalence of sleepiness and sleep quality among nurses in south east of iran.   subjects and methods : the study applied a descriptive, explorative design.252 nurses randomly selected from kerman university hospitals during winter 2009. usin...

background and objective: gastroenteritis is one of the most important diseases in the world. this disease is more critical among children, people with immune deficiency and the sufferers from mal-nutrition. shigella spp. as the most important cause of dysentery, causes much mortality around the world. increasing antibiotic resistance is one of the major health problems. this research aimed to ...

background: malaria is one of the most important parasitic diseases in iran. due to importantce of drug policy, monitoring of chloroquine therapeutic efficacy in uncomplicated falciparum cases was carried out in south and south-east of iran in 2003. materials and methods: this discriptive study was carried out in five centers of sistan-baluchestan, hormozgan and kerman provinces (south and sout...

â â â â â  graphic description: â  the mystery of ibn khafaja's success in description â  â ali bagher taheriniya * â javad ranjbar ** â  â  â abstractâ ibn khafaja is one of the poets and men of letters in spain. he is titled to sanobari of spain. he is one of the masters of description. hence, the analysis of successful techniques he has used in the descriptive art could illuminate the w...

background : nasopharyngeal carcinoma (npc) is known as a highly distinct kind of head and neck cancer. this distinction is due to its clinical presentation, epidemiology, outcome, and treatment. there have not been any reports of epidemiological analysis of npc in iran. the aim of this study is to evaluate the incidence rates and trends of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in the iranian population dur...

introduction: appropriate thyroid hormone (th) levels are essential during the critical period of brain development, which is associated with the growth of axons and dendrites and synapse formation. in rats, oral motor circuits begin to reach to their adult pattern around 3 weeks after birth, the period in which alteration from sucking to biting and chewing occurs (weaning time). trigeminal mot...

introduction: olive leaf contains anti-inflammatory and cox-2 inhibitor compounds. considering the role of the cox enzyme in seizures, this research was performed to assess the effects of this extract in treatment of seizures induced by ptz. methods: in this research, male wistar rats (200±20 g) were injected intra-cerebroventricularly with 1 μl saline or olive leaf extract (125 μg, 250 μg and ...

objective: the study of the relationship between religious beliefs performance and life satisfaction among the elderly in sabzavar city. materials & methods: the data gathered about religious beliefs performance and also life satisfaction among the elderly by survey research and questionnaires in representative sample. the size of sample was 301old persons and the technique of sampling was clus...

For managing reefer containers more efficiently, it is important to optimally determine the block size and the layout of reefer containers in the early design phase. Work balances among blocks of a yard have a significant effect on the productivity of container handling activities in automated container terminals (ACTs), and thus, the productivity of the whole terminal highly depends on the lay...

With the rapid increase of data volume, more and more applications have to be implemented in a distributed environment. In order to obtain high performance, we need to carefully divide the whole dataset into multiple partitions and put them into distributed data nodes. During this process, the selection of partition key would greatly affect the overall performance. Nevertheless, there are few w...