Corresponding author: 11 Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry 12 Av Georges Lemaitre, 4 13 B-1348 Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium 14 [email protected] 15 16 Conflict of interest: none 17 18 Acknowledgment 19 JJO is supported by a Brains Back to Brussels fellowship from the Brussels Region (Belgium). 20 MAAP is currently with the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Amir-Kabir University of 21 Techno...

globalization is a powerful and progressive process that challenges the power of governments in all political, economic, technological, and cultural aspects and provides them with opportunities and threats in their policy making. globalization theoreticians believe that information revolution has made the cultural aspect of globalization as its most powerful and widespread aspect challenging cu...

The conventional wisdom in economic theory prescribes that the major role of the Central Bank is to design and conduct active monetary policy aiming at curbing inflation and achieving the price stability. After half a century of endeavors in attaining this target, Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran has gone through tumultuous periods gaining mixed results in its efforts. The asse...

This study was carried out on 1600 rectal swabs from children under 5 years of age admitted at the health centre in Islamshahr, Tehran province, Islamic Republic of Iran, during 1998-99. The specimens were examined for various bacterial pathogens. Isolation rates were: enteropathogenic Escherichia coli 6.8%, Shigella spp. 3.4%, Salmonella spp. 2.9%, Campylobacter spp. 0.9%, Yersinia spp. 0.7%. ...

A 1-year study of fatal injuries was carried out in 10 provinces of the Islamic Republic of Iran based on a population of 16 740 637 in 2000-01. All reported deaths were compared and validated with other sources of death registration. Out of 66 846 deaths, 9733 (58/100 000) resulted from injuries. Overall, 14.9% of all deaths with 26.9% of years of lost life were from injuries. Most fatal injur...

The aim of this study was to determine the frequency and treatment of enuresis among primary-school children living in Oromieh city, Islamic Republic of Iran. A questionnaire was answered by parents of 3500 selected students at the annual school enrolment in summer 2004. The frequency of nocturnal enuresis was 7.7%. Enuresis frequency was significantly higher among boys (8.6%) than girls (6.7%)...

Title 1 Observing Motor Learning Produces Somatosensory Change 2 3 4 Nicolò F. Bernardi1,2, Mohammad Darainy1,3, Emanuela Bricolo2, David J. Ostry1,4 5 6 1 McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3A 1B1 7 2 University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy, 20126 8 3 Shahed University, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran 9 4 Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, 06511 10 11 Corresponding author 1...

Data on home accidents for a 3-year period (2000-2002) were collected from health houses, health centres and hospitals involved in a home accident prevention programme in Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. A total of 15 402 accidents were registered, with a mortality rate of 1.3%. Accidents were more common in women than in men (52.1% versus 47.9%) and urban than rural areas (66.3% versus 33.7%)...

The increasing incidence of tuberculosis (TB) is a major concern to public health policy-makers. To assess knowledge about TB and the DOTS strategy among medical students in a high incidence area of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a questionnaire designed around the national TB programme guidelines was given to 80 interns in Golestan and Mazandaran medical schools in December 2007. The overall me...