Background and Objectives: Gifted students are more sensitive to interpersonal conflicts and experience more self-alienation and mental pressure due to their cognitive abilities. The aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship among meta-cognition, mindfulness, and spiritual well-being in gifted high school students. Methods: This study was conducted on 144 gifted high school ...

This commentary argues that to fully appreciate the complexities of knowledge transfer one firstly has to distinguish between the notions of “data, information, knowledge and wisdom,” and that the latter two are highly context sensitive. In particular one has to understand knowledge as being personal rather than objective, and hence there is no form of knowledge that a-priori is more authoritat...

chlamydia trachomatis is the most prevalent sexually transmitted bacterial infection, with an estimated annual worldwide incidence of 50 million cases. a large proportion of those infected, particularly women, are asymptomatic, and these individuals serve as a major reservoir of infection. women are also at risk for serious reproductive tract complications with significant morbidity. in an effo...

a case who was suffering from abdominal pain and chronic diarrhea refered to isfahan health training and research center, institute of public health. current treatments for chronic diarrhea incloding a traial of gluten fre diet were performed but these were not effective because he was infected by dicrocoelium dentriticum. then he was cured with parasitic treatment.

dental caries, a progressive bacterial damage to teeth, is one of the most common diseases that affects 95% of the population and is still a major cause of tooth loss. unfortunately, there is currently no highly sensitive and specific clinical means for its detection in its early stages. the accurate detection of early caries in enamel would be of significant clinical value. since, it is possib...

TO THE EDITOR: I read with considerable interest the recent report by Rapp et al. (1) demonstrating the diagnostic performance of O-(2-18F-fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine (18F-FET) PET in newly diagnosed cerebral lesions suggestive of glioma. This retrospective but nevertheless convincing study provides us with substantial data on the accumulation of an amino acid PET tracer in glioma for a relatively ...