More than 30 million refugees and internally displaced persons in developing countries are currently dependent on international rSttef assistance for their survival. Most of this assistance is provided by Western nations such as the United States. Mortality rates in these populations during the acute phase of displacement have been extremely high, up to 60 times the expected rates. Displaced po...

Weather-related health effects have attracted renewed interest because of the observed and predicted climate change. The authors studied the short-term effects of cold weather on mortality in 15 European cities. The effects of minimum apparent temperature on causeand age-specific daily mortality were assessed for the cold season (October–March) by using data from 1990–2000. For city-specific an...

Introduction. Although rare, tsunamis have the potential to cause considerable loss of life and injury as well as widespread damage to the natural and built environments. The objectives of this review were to describe the impact of tsunamis on human populations in terms of mortality, injury, and displacement and, to the extent possible, identify risk factors associated with these outcomes. This...

in this article the general non-symmetric parametric form of the incremental secant stiffness matrix for nonlinear analysis of solids have been investigated to present a semi analytical sensitivity analysis approach for geometric nonlinear shape optimization. to approach this aim the analytical formulas of secant stiffness matrix are presented. the models were validated and used to perform inve...

a 4-year-old female native goat with the history of inappetence and no defecation was referred to the department of clinical sciences, school of veterinary medicine of shiraz, shiraz, southern iran. during exploratory laparotomy, pyloric obstruction and displacement of the abomasum to the left side was observed. obstruction of pylorus was due to a ball-shaped phytobezoar. the goat was followed ...

Purpose: The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of dominant lower limb on the correlation between some of the dynamic variables of ankle joint and center of mass during quiet standing balance control. Methods: Twelve healthy females with no known neurological or musculoskeletal disorders, with the mean age of 26±3.5 years, participated in this study. Motion analysis system, force ...

schizophrenia is one of the most severe psychiatric disorders and 25% of the patients need long term hospitalization. they have somatic illness that may be ignored and lead to death. considering the lack of information regarding the causes of death in schizophrenic patients, the aim of this study was to determine the main causes of death in the long term hospitalized schizophrenic patients in s...

conclusion the myocardial grayscale intensity, velocity and displacement can effectively reflect the situation of steiri in patients after cardiac operation, and ti (cvi) has a higher performance in discriminating between patients with and without steiri. background the timely diagnosis of presence or absence of reperfusion injury after cardiac operation is critical for the patient’s outcome. w...