BACKGROUND Maternal health improvement is one of the eight goals of the third millennium development, set in 2000. Pregnancy complications are the most important causes of maternal mortality worldwide. Proper and qualified health care access is one the most important factors for reducing maternal and neonatal mortality rates. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine quality of peripartum care...

Editor Associate Editors H. Joseph Newton Francis X. Diebold, University of Pennsylvania Department of Statistics Joanne M. Garrett, University of North Carolina Texas A & M University Marcello Pagano, Harvard School of Public Health College Station, Texas 77843 James L. Powell, UC Berkeley and Princeton University 409-845-3142 J. Patrick Royston, Royal Postgraduate Medical School 409-845-3144 ...

In the adult brain, subsets of astrocytic cells residing in well-defined neurogenic niches constitutively generate neurons throughout life. Brain lesions can stimulate neurogenesis in otherwise non-neurogenic regions, but whether local astrocytic cells generate neurons in these conditions is unresolved. Here, through genetic and viral lineage tracing in mice, we demonstrate that striatal astroc...

Published data have suggested a correlation between antifungal prophylaxis and bacteremia in febrile neutropenia. This correlation was investigated among 3002 febrile neutropenic patients enrolled in 4 trials during 1986-1994. Globally, 1322 patients (44%) did not receive antifungal prophylaxis; 835 (28%) received poorly absorbable antifungal agents and 845 (28%) received absorbable antifungal ...

We found that sexual differentiation of all the nymphal stages of Pycnoscelus indicus (Fabricius) was possible by observing the developmental features of their posterior abdominal segments. Using this observation, the sex of even the 1st stage instar nymph could be determined. The female of the 1st to 6th stage instar nymph possess a V-shaped notch at the middle of the posterior edge of the 9th...

Rouhollah Heydari*, Mohammad Hosseini, Mohammad Alimoradi and Sanaz Zarabi Razi Herbal Medicines Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences PO Bo x 68149-89468, Khorrsamabad, Iran. Young Researchers and Elite Club, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran. Department of Chemistr...

Background and aim Echinococcosis as a zoonosis disease is one of the most important parasitic helminth that is affected by many risk factors such as the environmental factors. Thus, we predicted the regional vulnerability to Echinococcosis based on environmental factors using a fuzzy inference system (FIS) in Lorestan Province. Methods Our study was cross-sectional study on 200 patients from...

This study aimed to investigate the influence of organizational culture on the knowledge management measures in Department of Social Security in Lorestan; the methodology is an applied, descriptive/survey, in terms of objective, the nature and methods, respectively and it is a fieldwork one; the statistical population consisted of N=380 employees of the Social Security Administration of Loresta...

Hydrogeochemical Assessment and Identification of Controlling Factors Chemical Composition Spring Waters in Alashtar Plain, Lorestan Province

1 Department of Mathematics, Lorestan University, P.O. Box 465, Khoramabad, Iran 2 Department of Civil Engineering, Shahid Chamran University, P.O. Box 135, Ahvaz, Iran 3 School of Engineering and Science, Victoria University, P.O. Box 14428, Melbourne, MC 8001, Australia 4 School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, Johannesburg, ...