*Corresponding author: Ali Ghorbani M.D, Department of Nephrology, Golestan Hospital, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Selenium supplementation reduces the products of oxidative stress in kidney failure patients and can be protective against cisplatin nephrotoxicity. ...

Abstract This study applies three methods, Gene Expression Programming (GEP), M5 tree (M5T) model and optimized Artificial Neural Network by Genetic Algorithm (ANN-GA) for estimation of reference evapotranspiration in Ahvaz Dezful the southwest Iran. Comparison between results FAO Penman - Monteith (FPM) method mentioned methods shows that ANN-GA with Levenberg-Marquardt training is best M5T se...

The present study aimed to diagnose aggressive and threatening behaviors via training among employees at the Welfare Organization in city of Ahvaz, Iran. statistical population this comprised 800 Ahvaz’s organization. Out this, 200 people were selected simple sampling method, sample volume was provided by Morgan Table. fell under applied studies terms goal a descriptive survey study. For questi...

BACKGROUND Hymenolepis diminuta is a cestod of rodents and rarely infects humans. Infection in humans is via ingestion of infected insects. This study was aimed to detect H. diminuta cysticercoids in red flour beetles, Tribolium castaneum, and cockroaches originated from different regions of Iran. METHODS The red flour beetles and cockroaches were collected from local bakeries in five cities ...

*Corresponding Author: Prof. Hajieh Shahbazian, Diabetes Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: World diabetes day was introduced by the international diabetes federation (IDF) and WHO in 1991, in response to increasing prevalence of diabetes around the wo...

I show how one can modify the random-walk Metropolis MCMC method in such a way that a sequence of modified Metropolis updates takes little computation time when the rejection rate is outside a desired interval. This allows one to effectively adapt the scale of the Metropolis proposal distribution, by performing several such “short-cut” Metropolis sequences with varying proposal stepsizes. Unlik...

Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran Department of Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Department of Basic Sciences and Nutrition, Health Sciences Research Center, School of Public Health, Mazandaran University of Medical Science...

background: although infectious diseases are the most common sources for the fever of unknown origin (fuo), but the spectrum of infectious diseases is changing overtime. the purpose of the study was to define the clinical spectrum and changing the pattern of fuo.methods: this existing data based study was undertaken from 2007 to 2011. one hundred-six patients fulfilling the modified criteria fo...