BACKGROUND Sufficient level of physical activity may promote overall and mental health of old people. This study was carried out to investigate the practi-cability of a physical activity promotion initiative amongst institutionalized older people in Tabriz, Iran. METHODS Purposive sampling method was used in this semi-experimental study to recruit 31 older people living in a selected resident...

Due to the increasing construction of clay and marl hills in most areas Tabriz (Iran), its characteristics terms resistance, tendency liquefy during earthquakes, this city is at risk landslides. This paper studies landslide vulnerability using visual statistical evidence. The evaluation susceptibility was performed evidential belief function model (EBF) index entropy. environmental impact asses...

INTRODUCTION Knowledge, attitude, and skills of nurses regarding evidence-based medicine are some of the important individual potentials in the implementation of these cares. There is no evidence indicating Iranian nurses to have these individual potentials. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determination the perceptions of nurses about individual potentials in evidence-based nursing and ...

INTRODUCTION Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most common serious bacterial infection during infancy. The aim of the present study was to evaluate demographic characteristics, clinical presentations and findings, and antimicrobial resistance among infants and children hospitalized in Tabriz Children's Hospital, Tabriz, Iran. METHODS In this descriptive observational study, 100 children wh...

BACKGROUND This paper discusses the corrosion and scaling potential of Tabriz drinking water distribution system in Northwest of Iran. Internal corrosion of piping is a serious problem in drinking water industry. Corrosive water can cause intrusion of heavy metals especially lead in to water, therefore effecting public health. The aim of this study was to determine corrosion and scaling potenti...

INTRODUCTION Psychological factors have always been considered for their role on risk taking behavior such as substance abuse, risky driving and smoking. The aim of this study was to determine the association between smoking behavior and potential personality patterns among high school students in Tabriz, Iran. METHODS Through a multistage sampling in a cross-sectional study, 1000 students we...

Background. Geriatric patients, usually defined as being 65 years of age or over, now make up about 10% of the major burn population. Main aim. To conduct a prospective study of elderly burn patients, analysing the predictive value of age, gender, total body surface area (TBSA) burned, inhalation trauma, pre-morbid conditions, and mortality. Methods. A 10-year prospective study of burn victims ...

Introduction: Sarcocystosis is one of the most common protozoan parasites in domestic livestock and causes severe infection some hosts such as cattle sheep. In addition to animals, Sarcocystis infects many wild birds, coldblooded humans. The purpose this study was investigate estimate initial status minced beef Tabriz. Methods: For digestion test diagnosis contamination from butchers Tabriz, 30...

In this paper, we combine two types of local search algorithms for global optimization of continuous functions. In the literature, most of the hybrid algorithms are produced by combination of a global optimization algorithm with a local search algorithm and the local search is used to improve the solution quality, not to explore the search space to find independently the global optimum. The foc...