OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine whether bony changes in temporomandibular joint (TMJ) osteoarthritis (OA) is correlated with pain and other clinical signs and symptoms. METHODS Clinical data and cone beam CT (CBCT) images of 30 patients with TMJ OA were analysed. The criteria of Koyama et al (Koyama J, Nishiyama H, Hayashi T. Follow-up study of condylar bony changes usin...

bostan ol-arefin va tohfat ol-moridin is one of the mystical prose texts of the khorasan area in the fifth century a.h. among the many persian literary texts, it is considered as a precious ancient source for many of the anecdotes, miracles and sayings of the sufis. furthermore, the linguistic features of this book such as numerous special vocabularies, stylistic aspects and prose similar to th...

In computer science, the Boyer–Moore–Horspool algorithm is an algorithm for finding substrings in strings. A pattern matching problem can be classified into software and hardware based on implemental methods. It is important of enhance pattern matching performance. This paper proposes enhanced pattern matching performance using improved Boyer Moore Horspool Algorithm. It combines the determinis...

Hypertension is the first and the most common risk factor to diseases such as cardiovascular, stroke, and renal diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the factors relevant to hypertension knowledge, treatment, and control in southern Iran. In this cross-sectional study, conducted in Kohgiluye Boyer-Ahmad province, south of Iran, a total of 1836 hypertension patients were randomly sele...