conclusions maternal physical activity affects children’s physical activity, and is affected by mother’s self-efficacy. yet based on the findings of this study, regarding the role model effects of mothers in children aged 10-12 years, researchers proposed that interventions related to physical activity in children would work better if they are set to increase self-efficacy in mothers, which in ...

background and aim: health-promoting lifestyle (hpl) is one of the main criteria which determine health and underlying factors preventing the health-threatening factors. hpl includes six dimensions of spiritual growth, health responsibility, nutrition, stress management, interpersonal relations, and physical activity. considering the importance of students’ health, both at individual and social...

background: cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) is endemic in many parts of iran. this study was conducted to investigate the fauna and some biologic factors of sand flies and detect cl vector(s) in kharameh district which is one of the most important foci of the disease in fars province, southern iran.   methods: to identify the fauna, a total of 1549 sand flies were collected from april 2014 to marc...

background & aim: in this study, is done during one-year research on blue–green and green algae for antimicrobial activity in mashhad suburb. aqueous, ether, and methanol extracts from 44 species blue – green algae and green algae were examined for antimicrobial properties against four bacteria (tow positive gram bacteria and tow negative gram bacteria) and tow fungous. material & meth...

in the present study ethanol and water extracts of 15 seaweeds, dictyota dichotoma var. velutricata, dictyota indica, iyengaria stellata, padina pavonia, sargassum swartzii, sargassum variegatum, stoechospermum marginatum, stokeyia indica, jolyna laminarioides, caulerpa taxifolia, halimeda tuna, ulva fasciata, ulva lactuca, solieria robusta, and melanothamnus afaqhusainii, were evaluated for th...

Seaweeds have caused an emerging interest in the biomedical area, mainly due to their contents of bioactive substances which show great potential as anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, anti-viral and anti-tumoral drugs. Despite the diversity in quality and quantity of the Mediterranean Tunisian coast flora, with its large contains of marine organisms and seaweeds, most of them have not yet been ...

a long-term study was conducted between 1985 and 2003 on rehabilitation trials at sishen ironore mine, south africa, to identify grass species that would survive in the artificial growth medium appliedto the sites, and to determine the most suitable medium for sustainable vegetation growth. vegetationestablishment was tested at slopes of 18° and 34° and with five different cover materials. afte...

the purpose of this study was to examine the evolution of antimicrobial activity of flower extract of hibiscus sabdariffal against antibiotic-resistant escherichia coli and staphylococcus aureus that isolates from the urinary tract infection by microtiterplate method. all 42 strains 30 e.coli and 12 s. aureus isolated from urine culture of hospitalized patients in zabol ( zabol, south-eastern i...

normal 0 false false false microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: war is a known cause of tremendous physical injuries to different body organs, and eyes are not exceptions. war-related no visual acuity (nva) affects both the victim and the family. activity of daily living (adl) can display personal life independency and is considered as a morbidity index. this study was designed to investigate...