background: nowadays, the concept of family planning has been detached from the population control and it is expressed as an essential element in women’s reproductive rights, empowering them and promoting their status in society. family planning services have an important role in fertility decisions using contraception methods in women. this study was carried out to explore the experience of wo...

background: access to family physicians plays an important role in individuals' health and health indicators. this study aimed to determine the effect of family physicians lodge on performance indicators of rural family physicians working in health centers of jiroft and kerman universities of medical sciences. methods: in this cross - sectional study conducted in 2013, 26 lodge physicians (as t...

1Student Research Committee, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran *Corresponding author: Amir Emami Zeydi, Student Research Committee, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran. Tel: +98-9355952357, Fax: +98-51385915...

background & aim: background & aim: physical fitness is essential for maintaining optimal health and can be achieved and improved by doing physical activities. maximal oxygen consumption (vo2 max) has been used as a measure of physical fitness. this study aimed to determine the effect of jogging program on midwives' physical fitness. methods:in this randomized controlled trial two large he...

Ali Peiravi DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD, MASHHAD, IRAN [email protected] Abstract: Ambulatory monitoring and health care using wireless body area networks is an active area of applied research. In this study, a new method is presented to compute the connectance and reliability of wireless body area networks based on an improved...

Optimisation of PM scheduling for multi-component systems – a simulated annealing approach Mohammad Doostparast a , Farhad Kolahan b & Mahdi Doostparast c a Iranian Oil Pipeline and Telecommunication Company (IOPTC) , Tehran , Iran b Department of Mechanical Engineering , Ferdowsi University of Mashhad , Mashhad , Iran c Department of Statistics, School of Mathematical Sciences , Ferdowsi Unive...

1 Assistant professor, Oro-maxillofacial developmental diseases research center, Department of oral medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Dental school, Rasht, Iran 2 Associate professor, Dental Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Dental School, Mashhad, Iran 3 Assistant professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Mashhad University of Medical Scie...

Corresponding author: Mohammad Hassan Nezafati Department of Cardiac Surgery Ghaem Hospital Mashhad University of Medical Sciences Mashhad, Iran PO Box: 91878544 Phone: +989151578421 Fax: +985136078099 E-mail: mhnezafati@yahoo. com 1 Cardiac Rehabilitation Research Center, Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 2 Department of Cardiac Su...

i Corresponding Author, M.H. Yaghmaee Moghaddam is with the Department of Computer Engineering and Center of Excellence on Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Processing, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran (e-mail: [email protected]). ii Hamid Reza Hassanzadeh is a graduate student in Department of Computer Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Mashhad, Iran (e-ma...

Background & aim: Considering the importance of keeping the country population young and fertility control, particularly, in the elites and with regard to the influence of spiritual well-being on fertility behaviour and childbearing in the religious cultural context of Iran, the present study aimed to determine the relationship between spiritual well-being and fertilit...