the goal of medicine is to prevent harm as hippocrates pointed out; “primum non nocere; first do no harm”. has this fact been taken into account in developing medical education curricula in asia? frequency of diseases in asia is different from high income countries (1, 2) and funds for research are lacking.  it is therefore important to allocate available funds to the most applicable issues to ...

conclusions although spinopelvic fracture dislocation injuries are severe high-energy entities, in cases with traumatic spondylolytic spondylolisthesis due to widening of the vertebral canal, neurologic deficit may not be seen at all. case presentation we described a 16-year-old girl with extremely severe axial trauma to the lumbosacral spine who presented with fracture dislocation of the lumbo...

this study is written following the analysis of institutional collaboration in the urban regions. based on this, and with the goal of facilitating the cooperation as one of the elements of governing patterns in the theories of new regionalism this study aims to analyze the governmental and public institutions’ commitment (as the main involving organizations for the regional management matters i...

a.sacharovi, which is one of the main malaria vectors of the palearchic region, is resistant to ddt in greece (1949), lebanon (1954), turkey (1959), syria and the u.s.s.r. (1972).the first record of a. sacharovi resistance to ddt in iran was given in 1959 from the kazeroon area, followed by izeh (1969) and meshkin-shahr (1970).this study (1973) urgently advises speedy measures to eliminate the ...

background & aim: medicinal plants, since time immemorial, have been used in virtually all cultures as a source of medicine and ethnobotany has prevent to be a valuable method to find new herbal medicine and plant derived drugs. material & methods: this study determined medicinally important plants that are most frequently by the local inhabitants of sistan to treat human diseases. in ...

The region counting distances, introduced by Demaine, Iacono and Langerman [5], associate to any pair of points p, q the number of items of a dataset S contained in a region R(p, q) surrounding p, q. We define region counting disks and circles, and study the complexity of these objects. In particular, we prove that for some wide class of regions R(p, q), the complexity of a region counting circ...