Background: Academic tests are valuable tools for evaluating students’ knowledge and capabilities. This study aimed to assess the content validity offinal examinations at Mashhad Dental School. The practical purpose of this study was to enhance the quality of written examinations in this school. Methods: The present descriptive, cross-sectional study aimed to determine the content validity of f...

Background & Aims of the Study : Consumption of honey has remarkably increased in the last years all over the world. Factors such as plant species, environmental, processing, and storing condition are affecting honey quality. The purpose of this study was to evaluation of Hygienic quality of honey samples produced from Qazvin province. Materials and Methods: 34 fresh honey Samples were obta...

Article history: Received 13 July 2011 Received in revised form 18 November 2011 Accepted 10 February 2012 Available online 14 February 2012

Article history: Received 7 February 2011 Received in revised form 23 September 2011 Accepted 11 February 2012 Available online 19 February 2012

Article history: Received 29 June 2011 Received in revised form 8 October 2011 Accepted 9 January 2012 Available online 18 January 2012

Article history: Received 4 July 2011 Revised 20 December 2011 Accepted 30 January 2012 Available online 1 February 2012 Communicated by Gregory Beylkin

Breech-strike is one of the most significant health problems of sheep populations in Australia, costing the wool industry approximately $280 million annually and resulting in significant illness and sometimes death (Lepherd et al., 2011). The practice of surgical mulesing to remove skin folds adjacent to the perineum and tail is a preventative measure against breech-strike, but it raises welfar...

In Australia, there were 1,883 cases (8.3 per 100,000 population) of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) notified to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) in 2011 and 1,823 cases (8.0 per 100,000) in 2012. The overall rate of IPD in Indigenous Australians was 9 times the rate of IPD in non-Indigenous Australians in 2011 and 7 times in 2012. Following the July 2011 introdu...

OBJECTIVES First, we describe trends in characteristics of suicidal events using new (2011-2012) and previous (1993-1995, 2000-2001 and 2007-2008) data reported by the Belgian Network of Sentinel General Practices (SGP); second, we examine patient age-related trends in on-site attendance of sentinel general practitioners (GPs) as first professional caregivers following suicidal behaviour; third...