BACKGROUND Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) measurement is a method for measuring perceptions of patients on their health and quality of life. The aim of this paper is to present the results of PRO measurements in total hip and knee replacement as routinely collected during 20 years of surgery in a university hospital setting. METHODS Data of consecutive patients between 1993 and 2014 were coll...

background : major injuries and death in accidents have roots in drowsiness. sleepiness is a main result of insufficient sleep. it is vital to explore drowsiness and its level. there are various sorts of methods in the forms of subjective and objective approaches. the goal of this study was to detect the association of subjective and interpretive drowsiness with facial dynamic changes. methods:...

A 22 year old male presented to our clinic with history of fatigue and breathlessness for four years. His clinical history had started during early childhood and was characterized by mental retardation. Mental retardation had prevented him from attending the school. Patient developed bilateral ptosis when he was thirteen years old. He was also giving history of double vision for the past 6 year...

BACKGROUND Mitochondrial myopathies (MM) are a heterogeneous group of inherited conditions resulting from a primary defect in the mitochondrial respiratory chain with consecutively impaired cellular energy metabolism. Small sized studies using mainly electrocardiography (ECG) and echocardiography have revealed cardiac abnormalities ranging from conduction abnormalities and arrhythmias to hypert...

غلاف سوخت‌های هسته‌ای یکی از مهم‌ترین اجزا رآکتور محسوب می‌شود. این غلاف‌ها آلیاژ زیرکونیم ساخته می‌شوند؛ اما خواص ترمومکانیکی چندان مناسبی ندارند؛ لذا در پژوهش سعی شده با تغییر مواد به‌کاررفته NuScale به یک نوترونیکی و مناسب دست پیدا شود. قلب موجب ضریب تکثیر مؤثر طول بازه سوخت‌گذاری می‌گردد. شبیه‌سازی که M5 بهره می‌برد به‌عنوان معیار هم‌­چنین همراه سه نوع دیگر آلیاژهای رایج دو آن FeCrAl است، د...

Despite colonial echoes, settlement schemes represent a major element in ‘nation-building’ endeavours Tanzania's history. Their evolution through the 1960s was circuitous and haphazard. This article explores origins of one earliest linked to Julius Nyerere TANU: Kilombero Settlement Scheme (KSS). It traces its from 1959 ragged progress over subsequent decade before eventual transmutation under ...