conclusions the layout of whiteboard in classrooms can be effective in causing student’s neck pain. in this study, the suitable height of installation of whiteboard was determined and it is recommended to be used in classrooms. background the mismatch between equipments and anthropometric dimensions of users is one of the issues that can be effective on development of musculoskeletal disorders ...

background: infertility is a global public health issue and may adversely affect life satisfaction. one of the most widely instruments used to assess life satisfaction is the satisfaction with life scale (swls). objective: the objective of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the swls in iranian infertile women. materials and methods: in this descriptive cross-sectional stud...

background variables derived from electroencephalogram like cerebral state index (csi) have been used to monitor the anesthesia depth during general anesthesia. observed evidences show such variables have also been used as a detector of brain death or outcome predictor in traumatic brain-injured (tbi) patients. objectives the current study was designed to determine the correlation between glasg...

Introduction An improved definition of the requirements for nitrogen and indispensable amino acids in human protein nutrition depends upon a better understanding of the mechanisms responsible for, and nature of, the integration of protein and amino acid metabolism at the whole body level. Although the molecular and cellular events concerned with gene expression (e.g. 1, 2), the formation of tis...

The period of complementary feeding refers to the stage of life when foods and/or liquid milks are fed to infants and young children in addition to breast milk; non-breast-milk food items consumed at this time are defined as complementary foods. Complementary foods may be either prepared specially for the young child, both to meet age-related nutritional needs and to mitigate immaturity in chew...

Clinical material studied. During the past I 5 months, I 15 cases of liver disease have been investigated in this Department by Hill (1951) and Hill & Rhodes (1951). Ninety liver biopsies were performed on fifty-eight of the cases by the needle technique and, in addition, ten post-mortem specimens were examined. Though the majority of these patients looked chubby and well nourished, all had an ...

aim and background: there are no questionnaires to assess the psychosomatic complaints of university students in iran. the purpose of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of takata and sakata's psychosomatic complaints scale among iranian university students. methods and materials: in this study, multistage cluster sampling was used to select 291 individuals from all male and f...

background abortions are of major public health concern in developing countries. in settings in which abortion is highly prohibited, the direct interview is not a reliable method to estimate the abortion rate. the indirect estimation methods to measure the rate of abortion might overcome this dilemma; they are practical methods to estimate the size of the hidden group who do not agree to partic...

conclusions lower level of self-steem should be considered as an important factor for tendency for drug abuse. results the mean age of participants was not statistically different in three groups (p = 0.75) but the other variables (i.e. level of education, job, location of living, and marital status) show significant statistical difference (p = 0.001).the mean score of self-esteem in the group ...

conclusions with regards to the predictive strength of the combination of gcs and iss, a predictive system for analyzing the clinical outcome may be provided. results 15496 traumatic patients referred to the hospital and traumatic deaths occurred in 289 patients. blunt trauma accounted for 286 (99%) of death and penetrating trauma for only 1%. our findings concerning the injury pattern, correla...