Despite the cultural significance of dance in Jewish communities around world, research into Middle Eastern outside modern nation-state Israel is sorely under-researched. This article aims to help rectify this by focusing on Yemenite, Persian/Iranian, and Kurdish explores how these dancers have functioned been received within societies they a part of. The methods that gone are combination analy...

Genetic diversity was assayed at 11 microsatellite loci of silver pomfret captured at 5 sites in 2010 to detect population genetic structure of Pampus argenteus, a commercial important species in Persian Gulf and Oman Sea. Results showed 131 alleles over all loci examined. Mean observed and expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.405 to 0.880 respectively. Pairwise F (0.040) and R (0.129) value...

BACKGROUND Several epilepsy-specific quality of life questionnaires have been developed. One of them is quality of life in epilepsy-89 version. The objective of this study was to develop a Persian version of QOLE-89 and confirm its psychometric properties. MATERIALS AND METHODS Participants were 75 patients with epilepsy. The quality of life questionnaire was adapted to Persian language throu...

The individual's perception of health, when health is understood to include many dimensions of life, is considered the basis for any improvement in health status. Therefore, the present study aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the Persian version of the Perceived Wellness Scale (PWS) by applying it to employees of the Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. This cross-sectional stud...

BACKGROUND The aim was to assess the reliability and the validity of the translated version of the stroke specific quality of life (SS-QOL) questionnaire in Iranian post-stroke patients. METHODS This project was performed at the Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, between 12 April 2010 and 24 February 2011. The English version of the SS-QOL was translated into Persian by "for...