abstract drastic precipitations in unmorally times always are one of the important factors that created abundant damages in different geographical areas. in this research, three precipitations that occurred in summer 2009 in mashhad were investigated. the investigation of variation graphs of meteorological parameters show significant decreasing of air pressure and temperature and increasing of ...

INTRODUCTION This research aims to explore the performance of the SF-6D and the EQ-5D in patients suffering from asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cataracts, and rheumatoid arthritis. In particular, the aim of this research is twofold: 1) to study the level of agreement between the indexes and the descriptive systems of the dimensions of the SF-6D and the EQ-5D, and 2) to analyze t...

BACKGROUND Recent data suggest that noninvasive liver fibrosis indexes could be useful for predicting esophageal varices (EV) in cirrhotic patients. However, thus far, the diagnostic efficacy of these indexes in predicting portal hypertension (PH) in cirrhotic patients has been poorly evaluated. AIMS To evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of noninvasive liver fibrosis indexes in the diagnosis of...

Objective: To observe the effect of percutaneous transforaminal lumbar spine endoscopic discectomy on lumbar disc herniation and its influence on indexes of oxidative stress. Methods: A total of 110 patients with lumbar disc herniation from May 2015 to May 2016 in our hospital were divided into control group (n=50) and study group (n=60) according to different surgical programs, with control gr...

assessing financial performance is one of the most important in functional domains, because financial information is considered for the basis of making decisions. organizations use various indexes for assessing performance in quantitative techniques. although these sorts of assessments provide useful information, but the comprehensive concept will never be concluded because of considering all t...

In response to the fact that the physical education evaluation is unitary in evaluation content, has unclear target, fails to address comprehensive indexes and reaches general conclusion, this paper discusses the multiple evaluation of physical education in general colleges and universities. Firstly, based on the multiple intelligence theory, this paper analyzes the evaluation process of physic...

background alanine aminotransferase (alt) level is the most common diagnostic test used for detection of liver damage; however in the past few years some studies have questioned the normal aminotransferase range in adults and have suggested its revision. objectives in this study, we assessed the upper limit of alt and aspartate transaminase (ast) in a healthy population of iranian children. pat...