introduction: according to world health organization (who) 2001 statistics, hearing disorders are the most common congenital disease, and the incidence rate among high-risk newborns is as much as ten times as high as that in healthy neonates. however, 78% of screening test failures are well-baby nursery babies. the joint committee on infants’ hearing (jcih) has emphasized the importance of earl...

BACKGROUND Our objective was to estimate associations between gestational weight gain z scores and preterm birth, neonatal intensive care unit admission, large- and small-for-gestational age birth, and cesarean delivery among grades 1, 2, and 3 obese women. METHODS We included singleton infants born in Pennsylvania (2003-2011) to grade 1 (body mass index 30-34.9 kg/m, n = 148,335), grade 2 (3...

abstract- annual medicago species (medicago spp.) are native to the mediterranean region and widely used in fields and pastures in iran. there are several methods of sowing annual medicago species, each with different effects on the performance. however, there is currently no sufficient information about the appropriate methods for sowing medicago species. in order to evaluate methods of sowing...

The paper has four sections. First section has an intro for the mobile payments requirements for a reliable service. Second section shows types and models of mobile payment service but not taking into account the service patterns and the electronic money systems. In section three as a case study is shown an author solution may be improved taking into account the security and ergonomic issues pr...

how to cite this article: khosroshahi n, alizadeh p, khosravi m, salamati p, kamrani k. spinal fluid lactate dehydrogenase level differentiates between structural and metabolic etiologies of altered mental status in children. iran j child neurol. 2015 winter;9(1):31-36. abstract objective altered mental status is a common cause of intensive care unit admission in children. differentiating struc...

We show that on a separable Banach space most Lipschitz functions have maximal Clarke subdiierential mappings. In particular, the generic nonexpansive function has the dual unit ball as its Clarke subdiierential at every point. Diverse corollaries are given.

holistic care is the evaluation of the physical and mental states of individuals. considering the importance of spirituality in healthcare and its pivotal role as the first step toward providing spiritual care, this study was conducted to determine the perception of iranian nurses towards spirituality in neonatal intensive care units (nicus). methods: this study was conducted on nine participan...

background: nosocomial infections are an important cause of mortality in neonatal intensive care units (nicus). therefore, in this study, the incidence and prevalence of nosocomial infections were determined in nicus of the three largest neonatal centers in northwest iran, and the causative bacteria were identified in order to provide potential solutions to control the infections in these hospi...

|There has been a tremendous growth in wireless technology in the last decade. This advancement has changed how people do business in Mobile Commerce (M-Commerce) environment. For creating a more secure and exible m-commerce infrastructure so as to meet the new demands, we need to leverage new technologies like 3G/UMTS, Bluetooth, EDGE and at the same time utilize the older ones like WAP, GSM, ...