Introduction: Some students attribute their academic failure to such factorsas low aptitude, unavailability of resources, and bad luck. However, we candare to say that the most important factor playing a role in academic successis students’ little acquaintance with learning and study skills. This study aimedat examining the quality of study skills in newly-admitted students of FasaMedical Unive...

Abstract Background: Stroke is the third cause of mortality and not only leads to dependency, which is a great social, individual and cultural problem, but also can affect the physiology, immune system and coagulation system such as plasma fibrinogen, and it may potentially increase the risk of stroke. This study investigated the relationship of opium dependency and stroke. Method...

Aims: Brucellosis (Malta fever) is one of the most common zoonosis diseases. The role of the family in preventive behaviors against brucellosis is important, so this study was conducted to determine the relationship between preventative behaviors of brucellosis and family-based empowerment models in women in families with brucellosis patients in Iran. Instrument & Methods: 200 people participa...

background and aims. the aim of the present study was to systematically review fluoride concentration of drinking waters and prevalence of fluorosis in iran through systematically evaluating results of studies conducted in this regard. materials and methods. in this systematic review study, the required data was collected using keywords including drinking water fluoride, fluoride concentration,...

BACKGROUND Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an increasing public health problem. However, there have been limited data on the trend of CKD prevalence, along with the changes of health-related behaviors and other chronic diseases in an adult Korean population. METHODS Data from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2005 and 2007 were analyzed. The study subjects compris...

In this study, we analyzed the change in tree height of 2594 Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) trees with respect to distribution among different forest sites: HCfs—hydrogenic coniferous site; MCfs—mineral MMfs—mineral mixed site. We obtained information from three independent airborne laser scanning (ALS) point clouds acquired north-eastern Poland over a 5-year interval 2007, 2012, and 2017 usi...

a bstract background: non‑medical utilization of pre‑implantation genetic diagnosis (pgd), like sex selection, is increasing, therefore it is necessary to follow‑up the health and outcome of fertilization and newborn’s birth followed pgd. the aim of this study was to evaluate the outcome of fertilization after sex selection by pgd and the relation between the age of parents and the outcome of f...

the goal of this research is to determine students' self-efficacy in science class through a teaching approach based on conceptual maps. the population consisted of all students who were the first high school freshmen in sarpole-zahab town. a total of 60 students were selected by cluster random sampling method. they were randomly assigned to the treatment and control groups. in the control...