in an effort towards complying with the who,s global policy of achieving health for all by the year 2000 and also with the pledge made by the government of iran to that effect, a national headquarters has been set up to speed the implementation of the expanded programme on immunization (epi) in the country. this paper aims to report the results of evaluations made at various times since the beg...

the study focused on constraints affecting the adoption of innovative agricultural technologies disseminated by the women-in-agriculture (wia) unit of the akwa ibom agricultural development programme (akadep) to its women clientele. the study also ascertained the awareness and adoption levels of such introduced technologies. findings revealed that respondents were aware of 61.9% of introduced t...

objectives: in this research we evaluate an individually family-based dohsa exercise programme of balance in the aged people and its effect on self confidence for performing common daily tasks with less falling could be influenced by training. methods: from a residential care center, five aged person were participated in this study. they were trained by dohsa method for six weeks. two types of ...

This study was carried out to control Johne’s disease (JD) without interfering with tuberculosis (TB)control programme. A dairy herd (n>1500 heads) was used over a period of 6 years, from 1994 to 1999 forthis investigation. The herd had a history of heavy infection with Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis(MAP) with culling rates of 1.5 and 5%, in 1991 and 1995, respectively. The mean annual lo...

ABSTRACT Objectives: to compare the parameters of activity/rest cycle early postpartum breastfeeding women under a controlled and uncontrolled long wavelength ray light regimen. Methods: quasi-experimental study with their babies during postnatal rooming-in, São Paulo, Brazil. Participants were allocated either an experimental (intervention) or comparison group. The intervention involved exposu...

b ackground: malaria is still one of the most important infectious diseases in the world. the disease also is a public health problem in south and southeast of iran. this study programmed to show the correlation between regular malaria microscopy training and refresher training courses and control of malaria in iran. m ethods: three types of training courses were conducted in this programme inc...

This paper contributes to turnover research by deriving a typology of retention practices and investigating their applicability in multinational corporations’ (MNCs) foreign subsidiaries in the light of homeand host-country effects. Linking institutional and strategic HRM perspectives, the paper then proposes a conceptual framework examining how MNCs can maximize their retention capacity. Speci...

Despite most infants born at 34+0 through 36+7 weeks’ gestation are thought to be at low risk during the birth hospitalization and have a neonatal course with no significant complications, they are physiologically and metabolically immature with an higher rates of morbidity and mortality than term infants [1]. Most common medical condition associated with latepreterm births are respiratory dist...

the present article arises from a three-year cross sectional investigation into english language teaching (elt) in secondary schools in iran and the role of communicative pedagogy within this. the study has examined the extent of communicative pedagogy within the iranian national elt curriculum, the elt programme and to some extent the english language coursebooks used in secondary schools. wha...