this study compared focus attention (self-focused attention and other focused attention) in social phobia patients and normal subjects. in this study with causal–comparative method, 100 subjects with social phobia and 100 normal individuals have been compared. subjects were selected through cluster sampling among tabriz university students. data scale of social phobia and focus attention of the...

black stem is one of the most important fungal diseases of sunflower which is caused by phoma macdonaldii. this research was conducted to clarify the interactions between a few breeder lines and wild-type accessions of sunflower with seven isolates of phoma macdonaldii, the causal agent, under controlled conditions. the experiment was carried out in randomized complete block design with three r...

abstract this study was an attempt to investigate the effect of collaborative form-focused activities on grammar learning of elementary efl learners. to this end, 58 adult male iranian efl learners at elementary level of proficiency in three classes of language institutes were chosen. they formed the three groups of the study. the grammar section of cambridge michigan placement test was used to...

Meditation is becoming increasingly popular as a topic for scientific research and theories on meditation are becoming ever more specific. We distinguish between what is called focused Attention meditation, open Monitoring meditation, and loving kindness (or compassion) meditation. Research suggests that these meditations have differential, dissociable effects on a wide range of cognitive (cont...

Background/introduction Anti-tumor immune response caused by High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) therapy has been a subject of controversy. Most agree that the response is more likely to be induced by mechanical, rather than thermal effects of HIFU. The goal of the current work was to study the effect of HIFU-induced liquefaction of a tumor on tumor-specific and non-specific T-cell mediate...

BACKGROUND High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a promising, non-invasive technique in treating benign thyroid nodules (TNs). The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of HIFU to induce clinically meaningful shrinkage in benign predominantly solid TNs and to identify variables that influence or predict the magnitude of TN volume reduction. METHODS For each of ten subjects, HIF...