A WHO expert consultation addressed the debate about interpretation of recommended body-mass index (BMI) cut-off points for determining overweight and obesity in Asian populations, and considered whether population-specific cut-off points for BMI are necessary. They reviewed scientific evidence that suggests that Asian populations have different associations between BMI, percentage of body fat,...

abstract background: assessment of developmental skills is one of the most essential components of children’s health evaluation. since several pubertal disorders are caused by parental negligence in diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of childhood problems, failure to make a timely diagnosis of these problems could have adverse effects on the health of children in future. this study was conduc...

management of traumatized patients after road accidents is in many countries still a serious challenge. apart from technical problems in management of car accidents, the recovery and rescue of the patients and their transport to hospital need exact planning and efficient strategy. present lecture compares the trauma management in an industrial country like germany with this in iran. present wor...

in this paper, an adaptive physics-based method is developed for solving wave motion problems in one dimension (i.e., wave propagation in strings, rods and beams). the solution of the problem includes two main parts. in the first part, after discretization of the domain, a physics-based method is developed considering the conservation of mass and the balance of momentum. in the second part, ada...

background: the metabolic syndrome (mes) is associated with a high risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. the aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome as well as cut-off points for waist circumference (wc) for diagnosis of mes in zahedan, southeast iran. methods: totally, 1802 people (735 men and 1067 women) with metabolic syndrome were surveyed a...

A LIDAR filtering technique is used to differentiate on-terrain points and off-terrain points from a cloud of 3-D point data collected by a LIDAR system. A major issue of concern in this low-level filter is to design a methodology to have a continual adaptation to terrain surface variations. To this end, several essential observations are discussed in this paper: i) the terrain surface can be f...

In this paper, a new control chart to monitor multi-binomial processes is first proposed based on a transformation method. Then, the maximum likelihood estimators of change points designed for both step changes and linear-trend disturbances are derived. At the end, the performances of the proposed change-point estimators are evaluated and are compared using some Monte Carlo simulation experimen...