BACKGROUND Completing therapy is one of the major transitions in care in the practice of pediatric oncology and, therefore, deserves special consideration. The purpose of the study was to investigate health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of pediatric patients, and emotional reactions of their parents, shortly after the end of successful treatment. METHODS HRQOL of 126 patients, aged 1-15 yea...

the major health challenge in the 20th century was to survive, whereas living with greater conditions is the major challenge in the current era. elderliness is a critical stage of life when there is a social call for considering its needs as to improve quality of life of elders. the present study is mainly concerned with quality of life of elders in urban areas of neyshabour. to this end, 150 e...

BACKGROUND Although the effectiveness of physical exercise for depression has been studied for many years, few studies have described patients' experiences of what exercise means to them, beyond the biological focus. Moreover, exercise as a treatment for depression is rarely explored in a physical therapy context. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to explore a physical therapy exercise...

Cross-cultural comparisons of dog behavior and dog-keeping practices are limited. The current study compared the questionnaire responses of German Shepherd owners in Hungary and the United States of America (USA). Owners provided information about their dog-keeping practices, as well as reports of their own German Shepherds’ behavior and temperament. Cross-cultural differences and similarities ...

BACKGROUND   Recent models of the early emergence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) propose that infant intrinsic risk susceptibilities in behaviour may be amplified by interaction within the early social environment into an increasingly atypical developmental trajectory. This study examines whether 6- and 12-month parent-infant interactions in at-risk siblings differ from those with low-risk a...

Increasingly, urban and suburban areas in many western cities are shaped by the tides of high-speed flows of people and goods. While an integral piece of our socio-economic fabric high-speed transport infrastructure (HSTI), limited in this paper to urban road networks, facilitates high-speed vehicle movement at the expense of neighborhood social interaction. A largely mono-functional land use, ...

What makes scraping methodologically interesting for social and cultural research? This paper seeks to contribute to debates about digital social research by exploring how a ‘medium-specific’ technique for online data capture may be rendered analytically productive for social research. As a device that is currently being imported into social research, scraping has the capacity to re-structure s...

Biometric recognition is noteworthy method for recognition of person in recent years. The aim of our biometric recognition system is to improve the template protection by embedding the iris data to hand vein images based on watermarking technology. In order to handle this issue, researches have proposed different algorithms to be confronted by security of biometric systems. Two major ways are, ...

OBJECTIVE Wet cupping is a traditional bloodletting method recommended for controlling of respiratory disease complications. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of wet cupping vs. venesection on arterial O2 saturation level of smokers. METHODS This is a randomized controlled clinical trial which started with simple sampling of smokers. After administering spirometery, participants (N = 1...

Recent models of the early emergence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) propose an interaction between risk susceptibility and the infant's social environment, resulting in a progressively atypical developmental trajectory. The infant's early social environmental experience consists mostly of interaction with caregivers, yet there has been little systematic study of early parent-infant interacti...