BACKGROUND Considering that complications and outcome of each method of pediatric inguinal hernia repair are one of the determinants for pediatric surgeons for selection of the appropriate surgical technique, we compared the early and late complications of two inguinal repair techniques, with and without opening the external oblique muscle fascia. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this double-blind cl...

introduction: acute coronary syndrome accounts for more than 15% of the chest pains. recently, hess et al. developed north american chest pain rule (nacpr) to identify very low-risk patients who can be safely discharged from emergency department (ed). the present study aimed to validate this rule in eds of two academic hospitals. methods: a prospective diagnostic accuracy study was conducted on...

Dasht-e Lut (Lut Desert) is archaeologically well-known in Near East thanks to the presence, on its western edge, of the Bronze Age urban centre of Shahdad. In 2012, the author launched a three-season field project in the area of Shahdad, with an agenda articulated around three main research points: an extensive archaeological survey along the western edge of the Lut Desert, the stratigraphic e...

Aims: Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women in Asia, including Iran. Mammography is used for the early detection of breast cancer for about 73% of cases. This study aimed to determine the effect of educational intervention on mammography among women referring to health centers using planned behavior theory. Materials & Methods: This randomized controlled trial study wa...

‎second derivative general linear methods (sglms) as an extension‎ ‎of general linear methods (glms) have been introduced to improve‎ ‎the stability and accuracy properties of glms‎. ‎the coefficients of‎ ‎sglms are given by six matrices‎, ‎instead of four matrices for‎ ‎glms‎, ‎which are obtained by solving nonlinear systems of order and‎ ‎usually runge--kutta stability conditions‎. ‎in this p...