Background and Objectives: Parents do not have the sufficient perception of the care their suffered children receive. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between barriers to care with parents’ perceptions of primary care and quality of life in thalassemia major children in Kerman, Iran. Methods:  The study was Descriptive-analytical and Cross...

Article history: Received 25 July 2011 Received in revised form 5 March 2012 Accepted 10 April 2012 Available online 27 April 2012

objective: cognitive factors are the important correlates of reading disorder and their impairments are established in children with reading disorder. neurofeedback as an intervention has been reported to be useful in improvement of cognitive deficits. the present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of this treatment on attentiveness and working memory and related electroencephalographic...

Aim: Preterm infant is deprived of various in-utero sensory experiences which have been documented as risk factor for prevalence broad range neurodevelopmental impairment in preterm infants. The present study evaluates the pain processing pattern neonates with and without known abnormalities using Premature Infant Pain Profile (PIPP)-a 7 indicator measure that include three behavioural (facial ...

Landscape metrics are used in landscape ecology to quantify landscape characteristics related to structure, function and change by quantifying the structure and distributional pattern of landscape elements such as plants, animals and other physical landscape features. To date, there has been little published research on landscape metrics that include social perceptions of landscape. In this pap...

Older adults, whether or not they have clinically significant hearing loss, have more trouble than their younger counterparts understanding speech in everyday life. These age-related difficulties in speech understanding may be attributed to changes in higher-level cognitive processes such as language comprehension, memory, attention, and cognitive slowing, or to lower-level sensory and perceptu...

Many children of all ages with swallowing disorders now receive at least part of their swallowing therapy in the public schools. This article presents the various types of swallowing therapy available, including postural changes, sensory enhancements, changes in feeding processes, and exercise programs. Other therapy issues discussed include the relationship of the feeding process to swallowing...

Sensory perception might be defined, in part, as that activity whereby changes in the environment are detected. From this point of view, fluctuations in a stimulus are more important than the mean stimulus intensity. In this paper, we are concerned primarily with the chemical senses in which the stimulus consists of molecules undergoing random motion in a fluid. We extend Smoluchowski’s model o...