results the rate of first-time successful spinal needle insertion was not significantly different between the clsp and tsp groups (62.9% versus 55.7%, p > 0.05). ease of landmark palpation in the clsp group was not significantly different from that in the tsp group (86.7% versus 76.4%, p > 0.05). the number of needle-bone contacts in both groups were not significantly different (p > 0.05). the ...

conclusions an increased lumbar lordosis during the prone knee-flexion test is due to instability in a lumbar spine region. results results demonstrated that there was a statistically significant difference in lumbar lordosis in prone position and after performing the prone knee-flexion test among healthy subjects (p < 0.0001). patients and methods this quasi-experimental study with repeated me...

Literatures of various cultures interfere with one another so that each of them may become part of another’s literary polysystem. Accordingly, the researchers, in this study, attempted to recognize what position Persian literary polysystem allowed English literature in particular Persian translations of English modern short stories to occupy during 1990-2005. This study also intended to find ou...

Background: Nutritional problems in premature newborns are of great importance for their development. In this regard, the neonatal positioning during and after feeding can have a significant effect on their nutritional tolerance. Therefore, the present study was conducted to compare the effect of two positions (i.e., prone and right lateral) on gastric residual volume ...

This paper discusses a parallel architecture designed for autonomous mobile robot navigation tasks. Parallelism is used to enhance system speed and developmental exibility. The system-called MADRON-consists of ve independent parallel agents sharing common data and control information. They are a communication agent for interfacing the system with a `Ralph' class autonomous mobile robot, a visio...

Although homeopathy have been discovered 230 years ago by Dr Samuel Hahnemann but only scientific view has begun only since 25 years. Currently homeopathy has been integrated into the national health care systems of many countries, including India, Mexico, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom. In the World Health Organization report about alternative medicine that published in 2001, we n...

position changes are believed to increase the efficacy of phototherapy and this practice is routinely used in all neonatal departments in our country. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of routine turning on the total serum bilirubin (tsb) concentration versus only supine position. in a randomized clinical trial fifty healthy term jaundiced neonates who were admitted to the neona...