BACKGROUND Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a gastrointestinal disease that is accompanied by pain, diarrhea, constipation and abdominal bloating. Hence, IBS has a major effect on patients' quality of life. OBJECTIVES The present study aimed to examine validity and reliability of the Persian version of the IBS-QOL questionnaire in Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS The original 34 items of the IBS...

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ABSTRACT Background and objectives: Varicocele has a relatively high prevalence in men and is a major cause of infertility in men. The disease has been discussed extensively in Persian medicine textbooks. Considering the importance of infertility and its impact on mental health and quality of life, we aimed to review the Persian medicine (Iranian Traditional Medicine) literature on the underly...

persian literature especially and world literature generally are proud of having a unique and gentle poet who associated word literature with values of humanity; the meanings and values which beautifies literary summits and associations. by following poetic associations - in anywhere of the world - which has superior feelings and elegant emotion, a footprint of sa'adi would be found. by st...

background : during the past two decades, a great deal of research has been conducted on developing affective norms for words in various languages, showing that there is an urgent need to create such norms in persian language, too. the present study intended to develop a set of 362 persian words rated according to their emotional valence, arousal, imageability, and familiarity so as to prepare ...

Literature is a measure of nation’s spiritual development, as well an expression its and educational experiences. It known that fiction, which embodies great social power, exerts active influence on the expansion human consciousness formulation aesthetic taste. In evolution Arabic, Persian, Chinese, Afghan literature, progression narrative genre toward prose, plot stories, compositional structu...

Dizziness and vertigo are the most common complaints of patients that has a high economic burden on the health system. In modern medicine, treatment for dizziness and vertigo consists of chemical pharmacological therapy. Although these drugs are useful in controlling the disease, their side effects and inefficiency in full control of the disease require the use of complementary medicine in this...

Sorting Persian strings is a common challenge for many users that develop web-based database applications. This issue occurs more frequently while using Persian data. To the best of our knowledge almost many versions of several DBMS do not support Persian strings sorting properly. In this paper we present a Java pattern for solving this issue. Our object-oriented solution consists of three clas...

Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) relies on the availability of rich parallel corpora. However, in the case of under-resourced languages or some specific domains, parallel corpora are not readily available. This leads to under-performing machine translation systems in those sparse data settings. To overcome the low availability of parallel resources the machine translation community has rec...

BACKGROUND Neural correlates of single word reading with the use of a functional MRI (fMRI) scan have been widely studied in different languages. These study patterns of cortical activation differ in different languages. In this report we used a similar technique to study cortical activation when reading single Persian words. METHODS The subjects were comprised of nine healthy right-handed bi...