adequate intake of folate has an important role in the prevention of nutritional anemia and other complications in childbearing age women. this study was undertaken to determine dietary folate intake and concentration of folate in serum and red blood cell (rbc) in female students of a medical university in tehran, the capital of iran.  in this cross sectional study, 346 female students were ran...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of Internet addiction and loneliness in secondary and high school students. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted between May 7 and June 8, 2012, among secondary and high school students in Sivrihisar, which is a district in rural part of Anatolia, Turkey. The study group consisted of 1157 students. Young Internet Addiction Scale was used to asse...

OBJECTIVE To find out the frequency of osteopenia and associated risk factors among young female students. METHODS This observational, cross-sectional study was conducted at the Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, from August 2011 to January 2012, and comprised young female students. Convenient sampling method was used. Age, residence, sun exposure, menstrual status, level of physical...

BACKGROUND Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FENO) level is directly correlated with airway inflammation in asthma patients. The objective of this study was to define normal FENO levels in healthy Thai volunteers. METHODS This prospective cohort study was conducted in healthy Thai volunteers aged ≥5 years. Demographic and clinical data were recorded and pulmonary function test (PFT) was perfor...

background: calcium is the most abundant mineral in the human body. this mineral is provided only by the consumption of foods containing calcium that it is recommended to use at least1300 mg daily for adults. this study is aimed to investigate the nutritional behavior of female high school students about consumption of calcium-rich foods.materials and methodsat a descriptive-analytical study, t...

conclusions regarding the control of aggressive behaviors, paying attention to male, young students living in dormitory, especially in non-governmental universities has the highest priority. results a total of 381 (47.2%) male and 428 (52.8%) female students participated in the study. mean (sd) age of the respondents was 21.79 (2.86) years. overall mean aggression score (sd) in the students was...

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by changes in subjective and objective measures of sleep quality. As recent findings point to the importance of sleep in memory consolidation, sleep-related memory consolidation was investigated in 15 female BPD patients (mean age 26.1+/-6.1 years) and 15 female healthy controls (mean age 25.6+/-6.8 years). Before and after the study night,...

ABSTRACT In this article, we investigate the presence and absence of commas in a longitudinal sample texts genre report written by 11 to 15 years-old students from school countryside São Paulo State. Our hypothesis is that comma used when syntactic boundaries match prosodic ones. The constituents are formed phonological information, according principles defined Prosodic Phonology theoretical ap...