Background Neonatal mortality rate is one of the main indicators of health care systems in each country. The first step in improving the level of these indicators is to identify the causes of neonatal dead and its related factors. In this study, the causes of neonatal mortality and its related factors in neonatal intensive care unit at Imam Reza hospital were investigated. Materials and Method...

BACKGROUND Peptic ulcer is the most common cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) and nutritional support is a helpful strategy in malnutrition prevention during treatment. As early oral feeding in patients with GIB may shorten hospital stay and decrease costs and risk of infection, the present study was carried out to investigate the effects of early oral feeding on relapse and symptom...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.11.032 0957-4174/ 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +90 533 845 2320. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (S. Monghasemi), nikoo@ shirazu.ac.ir (M.R. Nikoo), [email protected] (M.A. Khaksar Fasaee), [email protected] (J. Adamowski). 1 Tel.: +98 711 647 3497; fax: +98 711 647 3161. 2 Tel.: +98 936...

Optimization Methods and Software Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713645924 The central path visits all the vertices of the Klee-Minty cube Antoine Deza a; Eissa Nematollahi a; Reza Peyghami a; Tamás Terlaky a a Advanced Optimization Laboratory, Department of Computing and Software, McMaster Un...

Acknowledgements It is a great pleasure to thank those people whose company I enjoyed in my lovely PhD journey. It is difficult to overstate my gratitude to my friend and Ph.D. supervisor, Prof. Giuliano Armano. During these three years, he gave me an opportunity to learn not only how to be a thinker but most importantly be a life lover. Working with him was an honor which remains with me for e...