Background: Neonatal mortality rate is an important health index. The present study was conducted to determine the mortality rate and its causes in neonatal intensive care units (NICUS) in Iran. Methods: Online search was done without time limit until June 2018 in several databases, such as PubMed, Web of Science (ISI), Scopus, Mag...

Background: Neonatal Jaundice is a common problem that occurs in most preterm and term neonates. This systematic review aimed to examine the evidence for the effects of oxytocin in labor on neonatal jaundice. Materials and Methods: In this systematic review study, English databases including PubMed, Google Scholar, Embase, Cochrane Library, Scopus, Web of Sciences, and Persian databases includi...

Background: Adolescence pregnancy is high risk both for mother and child. This systematic review aimed to determine the effect of home visiting on maternal and neonatal outcomes in adolescent mothers.Materials and Methods: This systematic review was performed by searching English databases including Cochran library, PubMed, Google scholar, Scopus, web of science, Embase, Ovid and Persian databa...

Background: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) refers to the intentional damage of one’s own body without a suicidal intent, which involves common behaviors such as cutting, burning, scratching, and hitting the body. Identifying factors associated with the development and continuity of NSSI is a research priority, as prevention is crucial. The aim of the current study was...

In this chapter, we propose a new method to measure the importance of input variables and to examine the effect of the input variables on other components. We applied the method to competitive learning, in particular, self-organizing maps, to demonstrate the performance of our method. Because our method is based upon our information-theoretic competitive learning, it is easy to incorporate the ...

I N THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS a number of radioassay procedures for serum vitamin B12 have been described. Each method is based on the fact that unlabeled crystalline B12 will competitively inhibit isotopically labeled B12 (tracer B12) from binding to a specific B12 binding protein(s). Basic to each procedure is the reaction of B12 (labeled and unlabeled) with a limited quantity of binding protein...

I N THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS a number of radioassay procedures for serum vitamin B12 have been described. Each method is based on the fact that unlabeled crystalline B12 will competitively inhibit isotopically labeled B12 (tracer B12) from binding to a specific B12 binding protein(s). Basic to each procedure is the reaction of B12 (labeled and unlabeled) with a limited quantity of binding protein...

I N THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS a number of radioassay procedures for serum vitamin B12 have been described. Each method is based on the fact that unlabeled crystalline B12 will competitively inhibit isotopically labeled B12 (tracer B12) from binding to a specific B12 binding protein(s). Basic to each procedure is the reaction of B12 (labeled and unlabeled) with a limited quantity of binding protein...