In this retrospective study, data on 3819 stroke patients, 1966 (51.5%) female and 1853 (48.5%) male, treated at Department of Neurology, Sibenik-Knin County General Hospital during the 1996-2005 period were analyzed. There were 3417 (89.5%) patients with ischemic stroke and 402 (10.5%) patients with hemorrhagic stroke. Analysis according to age decades revealed the 70-79 age group to account f...

Exposure to isocyanates is known to have respiratory effects in workers and therefore it is essential to monitor the occupational exposure. An earlier study of a continuous foaming plant using toluene diisocyanate (TDI) showed that the exposure to isocyanates can be high. Since then several preventive actions were implemented at the plant. The aim of this study was to observe the effect of thes...

Background: Clinical training is an important part of the training courses of medicine during which students learn how to face the patients, diagnose the diseases and treat the patients. Alongside clinical apprenticeship, related theoretical courses are presented so that the most training possible is covered. In the past the theoretical courses of pediatrics ward of Birjand University of Medica...

BACKGROUND Substance use of adolescents was investigated in a region around Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in the period 2005-2009. The study was intended to find out to what extent behaviour related to different substances are interrelated and how trends develop in different subgroups. METHODS Two cross-sectional surveys were conducted among Dutch students in the second and fourth year of secon...

Rainwater harvesting could be a possible solution to decrease the consequences of water scarcity and energy deficiency in Iraq Kurdistan Region (KRI). This study aims calculate (electricity) saved by rainwater for rooftops green areas Sulaimani city, KR, Iraq. Various data were acquired from different formal entities city. Moreover, Google Earth ArcMap 10.4 software used digitizing calculating ...

BACKGROUND One of the most common cosmetic surgeries is rhinoplasty. Iran has the highest rate of rhinoplasty, worldwide. The aim of this study was to compare the demographic characteristics of patients’ undergone rhinoplasty during two-time-period with a 10-year-interval in a single surgical center in Isfahan, Iran. METHODS In a retrospective study, data of the patients who were sched...

in order to study the primary inoculum source, apothecium production, as well as overwintering of monilinia laxa, the causal agent of sweet cherry brown rot, this study was carried out in guilan province during 2005-2006. apothecium production by the fungus was investigated under natural and laboratory conditions. the mummified fruits collected in early october didn't produce apothecia und...

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 0 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 0 I E E E ground. We agree with F.G. Harold’s concept of “optimal heterophily”1 and use the term software engineering to include information technology. Y2K presented a formidable (albeit welldefined) challenge: find the date problems and fix them (see our “Congratulations” in the accompanying sidebar). Post-Y2K presents a more formidable challenge: a...

Mainstream Information Technology professionals have misunderstood the Pick environment for many years. The Pick environment has been conceived, designed and built with business solutions as its key driver. At its heyday there were over 3,000 business applications available across a very wide range of hardware platforms supporting from 1 to thousands of real time users. The tentative economic r...