Background Scorpions are among the world's venomous arthropods, they sting humans every year, suffering painful symptoms or losing their lives because of the venom. Odontobuthus doriae Thorell 1876 (Arachnida: Scorpionida: Buthidae) is a scorpion of medical importance and therefore its geographical distribution in Isfahan Province has been studied. Methods This descriptive cross-sectional stu...

BACKGROUND There are several evaluation models that can be used to evaluate the effect of in-service training; one of them is the Kirkpatrick model. The aim of the present study is to assess the in-service training of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for nurses based on the Kirkpatrick's model. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study is a cross-sectional study based on the Kirkpatrick's model in ...

Assign each rural county to an urban county. Let i index urban counties, and let j each of the rural counties assigned to a particular urban county; let j = 0 for the urban county. DeÞne an urban county and its assigned rural counties as a group, and let Ji be the number of rural counties in group i. Let Nij be the number of nurses in county j of group i, and let Pij be the population of county...

COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Donna Austin, Director, Family Mediation Program, Lane County Paul Edison-Lahm, Multnomah County Family Court Facilitator Dr. Adam Furcher, PhD, Psychologist and Mediator, Portland Janice Garceau, LCSW, Director, Family Court Services, Multnomah County Kelly Lemarr, Attorney/Branch Manager, St. Andrew Legal Clinic, Washington County Jane Parisi-Mosher, MA, LMFT, Therapist, Me...

ALLEN VAN DEYNZE, Biotechnology Specialist, Seed Biotechnology Center, University of California, Davis; DANIEL H. PUTNAM, University of California Cooperative Extension Alfalfa Specialist, University of California, Davis; STEVE ORLOFF, University of California Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor and County Director, Siskiyou County; TOM LANINI, Cooperative Extension Weed Specialist, University o...

Introduction In 2004, Delaware County, Ohio, was the fast­ est growing county in Ohio and the eleventh fastest growing county in the nation. Even with a 71.4% increase in business establish­ ments, less than 40% of Delaware County res­ idents both live and work in the county. The population increased 30% from April 2000 to July 2004, when it reached 142,503. Delaware County, about 25 miles nort...

BACKGROUND Based on death certificate data, the Texas Department of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics calculates age adjusted all-cause mortality rates for each Texas county yearly. In 1998 the calculated rates for two adjacent Texas counties was disparate. These counties contain one city (Amarillo) and are identical in size. This study examined the accuracy of recorded county of residence for ...

background: foreign immigrants form the part of the population of each country. among the foreign immigrant population in iran, the share of immigrants and nationals from afghanistan is very noticeable. one of the factors that affect this people's physical and mental health is social support. this study aimed to investigate the status of social support and its effective factors on afghan immigr...

Béla Pikó1, Ali Bassam1, Enikő Török2, Henriette Ócsai3 and Farkas Sükösd4 1Kálmán Pándy Hospital of the Local Government of Békés County, County, Center of Oncology, Gyula, 2Kálmán Pándy Hospital of the Local Government of Békés County, County Department of Radiology, Gyula, 3Kálmán Pándy Hospital of the Local Government of Békés County, Dermato-Oncology Outpatient Clinic, Gyula, 4University o...

cold stress is one of the most important environmental stresses for rice especially in temperate and high elevation areas. in present study, the effect of different temperatures, as the main plot, including 25 (control), 10 and 5°c on 12 rice cultivars (including champa yasouj, gerde, lenjan askari, kaamfirouz, kohsar, shafagh, domsiya mamassani, dular, gharib, hasan saraei, mosa tarom and 304)...