Motivation Site directed mutagenesis is widely used to understand the structure and function of biomolecules. Computational prediction of mutation impacts on protein stability offers a fast, economical and potentially accurate alternative to laboratory mutagenesis. Most existing methods rely on geometric descriptions, this work introduces a topology based approach to provide an entirely new rep...

introduction: the present age is the age of dramatic changes in technologies whose intellectual structure deepens information and considers creative and knowledge-oriented human resource participation. the present study has been performed to determine the relationship between knowledge management and creativity among the librarians of university libraries of shiraz, iran in 2010. methods: all f...

Studies of brain-wide functional connectivity or structural covariance typically use measures like the Pearson correlation coefficient, applied to data that have been averaged across voxels within regions of interest (ROIs). However, averaging across voxels may result in biased connectivity estimates when there is inhomogeneity within those ROIs, e.g., sub-regions that exhibit different pattern...

introduction: the students’ academic achievement is of paramount significance for their future accomplishments. academic achievement is associated with various effective factors, one of which is self-esteem. the current study was conducted to assess the correlation between self-esteem and academic achievement of the midwifery students at mashhad university of medical sciences in 2013. methods: ...

a bstract background: nutrition pattern is one of the important factors predicting menstrual distress, which varies among different cultures and countries. the purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between food frequency and menstrual distress in high school girls from mashhad.   materials and methods: this cross‑sectional study was conducted in 2012 using a two‑stage sampling ...

Available online at: http://npt.tums.ac.ir Background & Aim: Increasing students’ academic stress especially during taking final exams may result in sleep disorders, fatigue, poor academic performance and low functional efficiency. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between sleep quality with fatigue severity and academic performance of nursing students. Methods & Materials...