OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to better understand the triggers of suicide, particularly among the ancient Greek and Persian soldiers and commanders. METHOD 'Herodotus:TheHistories' is a history of the rulers and soldiery who participated in the Greco-Persian wars (492-449 BCE). A new translation (2013) of this manuscript was studied. Accounts of suicide were collected and collated, wit...

Nowadays, many daily human activities such as education, trade, talks, etc are done by using the Internet. In such things as registration on Internet web sites, hackers write programs to make automatic false registration that waste the resources of the web sites while it may also stop it from functioning. Therefore, human users should be distinguished from computer programs. To this end, this p...

Adults who were born preterm with a very low birth weight have higher blood pressure and impaired glucose regulation later in life compared with those born at term. We investigated cardiometabolic risk factors in young adults who were born at any degree of prematurity in the Preterm Birth and Early Life Programming of Adult Health and Disease (ESTER) Study, a population-based cohort study of in...

this paper examines the influence of persian words on italian culture and literature. these words entered italian literature before the 14 th century . first , it should be mentioned that the standard italian language has a literary origin that starts in the twelfth century, and the modern standard language was largely shaped by relatively recent events. this european language did not remain un...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Individuals born very preterm (before 33 weeks of gestation, VPT) are at risk of damage to developing white matter, which may affect later cognition and behaviour. METHODS We used diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI) to assess white matter microstructure (fractional anisotropy; FA) in 80 VPT and 41 term-born individuals (mean age 19.1 years, range 17-22, and 18.5 years, range ...

Author Affiliations:Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Yin, Leis); Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Kiss, Leis); Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Kiss, Leis); Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Hea...

Background — Health anexity affects the doctor–patient relationship and also causes unnecessary further procedures. Therefore, early diagnosis of it with a valid instrument is very important. Objectives — The aim of this study was to evaluate psychometric properties of the Persian version of 14-item Whiteley Index. Material and Methods — This research was a cross sectional study carried out in ...

INTRODUCTION Churg-Strauss syndrome is a vasculitis of medium to small sized vessels. Diagnosis is mainly clinical with findings of asthma, eosinophilia, rhinosinusitis and signs of vasculitis in major organs. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of a 19-year-old Persian male who developed signs and symptoms of this syndrome related to hyposensitization treatments for allergy control. CONCLU...

AIM To investigate the personality in very preterm individuals (VPT; gestational age, GA, <32 weeks) at adult age in two cohorts born in 1974-76 and 1980-82, respectively, and to illuminate the effect of increased survival rates and the clinical implications of deviations in personality. METHOD Demographic data were extracted for all individuals born in Denmark in 1974-76 and 1980-82. From ea...

We assessed whether a pregnant woman who was born small for gestational age has increased risk of pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH), and whether the same applies to a pregnant partner of a man who was born small for gestational age. We linked generational data from the medical birth registry of Norway (1967-2005). Female and male newborns were identified as parents with 197,716 and 131,959 f...