After reading this chapter you will be able to: • recognise the importance of research and evidence-based practice in nursing and midwifery • differentiate major philosophical approaches in the conduct of research and their use in nursing and midwifery services • understand developments in nursing and midwifery research in the context of society, politics and history • understand the links betw...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis B is the most common cause of liver disease, and medical students are a risk group for the disease given their future occupations. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to assess of predictors of hepatitis B in the Faculty of nursing, midwifery and health at Shahrekord Islamic Azad University in 2014. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted with 300...

Authors: Yuan Yuan 1 , Hongwei Mao 1 , Jennie Si 1,2, 3 4 Affiliation: 1. School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, 5 AZ 85287, USA. 2. Graduate Faculty of the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, 6 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. 3. Affiliate Faculty of the Interdisciplinary Graduate 7 Program in Neuroscience, Arizon...

the soy bean effect on the premenstrual syndrome concerning its physical ٬ psycho and behavioral effects in female students of semnan university dormitory    beidokhti h [1] * , heidari m [2] , firozeh m [3]     received: 07 apr , 2013 accepted: 1 jun , 2013   abstract   background & aims: premenstrual syndrome is the cyclic appearance of physical, psycho and behavioral syndrome which occurs at...

Poultry farming not only provides high nutritious food but also creates employment opportunity for rural masses. Documented evidences elaborates that helminth parasitism is most deciduous problem of chickens especially in developing world. Ascaridia (A.) galli, a nematode of small intestine, has been considered as the most common and important parasite of chicken. The present study was carried ...

Renaud Piarroux, Robert Barrais, Benoît Faucher, Rachel Haus, Martine Piarroux, Jean Gaudart, Roc Magloire, and Didier Raoult Author affi liations: Université de la Méditerranée, Marseilles, France (R. Piarroux, B. Faucher, J. Gaudart, D. Raoult); Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Population, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (R. Barrais, R. Magloire); Service de Santé des Armées, Paris, France (R. H...