based on the accumulated data, ftir spectroscopy seems to be a highly sensitive tool in cervical cancer diagnosis. we, therefore, employed this technique in a screening type of research here in tehran. the purpose of this study was to look for the spectral pattern differences between normal and malignant cervix samples in iranian women. through formal and informal announcements, all gynecology ...

background and objective: patients with thalassemia major have an abnormality in hemoglobin synthesis and ineffective hematopoiesis and for this reason with respect to disease severity should receive one or more fresh blood unit every 15-30 days. since transfusion of blood products has been known as one of the routes of hiv infection, therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the prevalen...

background & aim: breast cancer is recognized as the most common type of cancer among iranian women. cancer screening and early diagnosis are among the most effective strategies to reduce the associated mortality and healthcare costs. accordingly, the aim of this study was to investigate the level of knowledge and practice of breast cancer screening among women referred to hospitals affiliated ...

background: abnormal levels of the markers afp, hcg, and ue3 could be useful in predicting adverse pregnancy outcomes. this study was designed to determine the correlation between second trimester maternal serum markers and adverse pregnancy outcome (apo). methods: in this historical cohort study, we randomly followed 231 obstetric patients with quadruple screening test in 14-18 weeks of gestat...

background: this study aimed to establish a comprehensive screening and referral system for chronic non-communicable diseases (cncd) in the routine primary health care, and to determine the prevalence of diabetes, pre-diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and dyslipidemia in adult population invited by public announcement to the health clinics in isfahan, iran. methods: this survey was conducted from m...

the operations in the set of fuzzy numbers are usually obtained bythe zadeh extension principle. but these definitions can have some disadvantagesfor the applications both by an algebraic point of view and by practicalaspects. in fact the zadeh multiplication is not distributive with respect tothe addition, the shape of fuzzy numbers is not preserved by multiplication,the indeterminateness of t...

in this paper a linear fuzzy fredholm integral equation(ffie) with arbitrary fuzzy function input and symmetric triangular (fuzzy interval) output is considered. for each variable, output is the nearest triangular fuzzy number (fuzzy interval) to the exact fuzzy solution of (ffie).