OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine the effect of self-disclosure skill training on communication patterns of referred couples to counseling clinics in Bandar Abbas. METHODS The applied research design was an experimental study using pre-test and post-test, which was performed on a population of all referred couples to counseling clinics in Bandar Abbas who were interested to participate in...

BACKGROUND Otitis media is one of the most common infections among children and is a complication in about 30% of common colds. The most common complication of acute otitis media is otitis media with effusion. Some studies have reported the effects of montelukast and mometasone nasal spray in treatment of otitis media with effusion. However, current information is inadequate in this issue. OB...

BACKGROUND The risk of infection with transfusion-transmitted viruses, such as Hepatitis B virus (HBV), has been reduced markedly. However, a zero-risk blood supply remains a popular goal. Anti-hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc) is considered to be an effective marker for occult HBV infection, and it has served a significant role in improving blood safety. The purpose of this study was to dete...

Relay channel was firs introduced by van der Meulen [1, 2, 3]. Time sharing approaches were used to find inner bounds for the capacity. Most of the known results stem from the publication [4] by Dr. Thomas M. Cover and Dr. Abbas A. El Gammal. In this paper, capacity of degraded relay channels, relay channels with feedback is computed. Also lower bounds using Block Markov coding (decode and forw...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine knowledge, attitude, and performance vis-à-vis pain management in neonates by nurses working in neonatal units in Bandar Abbas University hospitals. METHOD This descriptive and analytical study was executed from March-August 2011 in the neonatal units and NICU in Bandar Abbas educational hospitals. A total of 50 nurses and nurse assistants wo...

Breast cancer is the top cancer in women worldwide. Scientists are looking for early detection strategies which remain the cornerstone of breast cancer control. Consequently, there is a need to develop an expert system that helps medical professionals to accurately diagnose this disease. Artificial immune recognition system (AIRS) has been used successfully for diagnosing various diseases. Howe...

The paper presents an application of temporal knowledge representation and reasoning techniques to forensic analysis, especially in answering certain investigative questions relating to time-sensitive information about a terrorist activity. A brief introduction to a temporal formalism called Point-Interval Logic is presented. A set of temporal facts is taken from the London bombing incident tha...

1. Research Center for Traditional Medicine and History of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 2. Essence of Parsiyan Wisdom Institute, Traditional Medicine and Medicinal Plant Incubator, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 3. Student Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 4. Research Office for the History of Persian Me...

We develop the theoretical foundation of a new representation of real numbers based on the innnite composition of linear fractional transformations (lft), equivalently the innnite product of matrices, with non-negative coeecients. Any rational interval in the one point compactiication of the real line, represented by the unit circle S 1 , is expressed as the image of the base interval 0; 1] und...