background and purpose: severity of illness scoring systems is used for the classification of patients to receive medical services, predict the risk of mortality, determine hospital bed occupancy, and assess treatment progress. in iran, these scoring systems are not frequently used due to the lack of knowledge of medical staff. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of education on the knowled...

Because of fluctuation in leg tension, pitch motion is very effective fatigue and life safety of leg elements in tension leg structures (TLSs). In this paper an exact solution for pitch vibration of a TLS interacting with ocean wave is presented. The legs of TLP are considered as elastic springs. The flow is assumed to be irrotational and single-valued velocity potentials are defined. The effec...

In assessing foreign language writing, holistic and analytic scoring can be used to measure a variety of discourse and linguistic features. This study aimed to investigate the possible significant effect of analyt- ic and holistic assessments on improving writing skill among Iranian EFL learners. For this purpose, two groups of intermediate EFL learners, after being homogenized, were divided in...

background: this study intended to determine the effects of vitamin d and calcium?vitamin d in treating leg cramps in pregnant women. materials and methods: this study was conducted as a double?blind randomized controlled clinical trial on 126 participants, 18–35?year?old pregnant women with a minimum of two leg cramps per week who were referred to health?care centers in tabriz?iran in 2013. th...

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Human Walk Chapter 3: Study of Robot Leg Mechanisms 3.1 Effectiveness of leg joints relating to the walking. 3.2 Locations of leg joints. 3.3 Movable extent of leg joints. 3.4 Dimension, weight and center of gravity of a leg. 3.5 Torque placed on leg joints during the walking. 3.6 Sensors relating to the walking. 3.7 Grounding impact on leg joints during the w...