this survey has been conducted to indicate the positive effects of implementing neonates continuous care patterns on their physical health as well as early diagnosis and decrease of complications in 6 weeks after delivery. this quasi-experimental study has been conducted on 118 mothers and their neonates in one maternity hospital in iran. neonates were assigned in control and experimental group...

background: because nerve stimulators are not always available for brachial plexus block, fmding the right injection spot for nerve blocks is important. in this study we used physical examination to determine the appropriate spot for injection. methods: all patients who were candidates for upper extremity surgery and were either in class asa i or asa ii, were selected. paresthesia was elicited ...

background & objectives:endocrine hormones, through their anabolic or catabolic function, contribute in body homeostasis. they can be used to assess the physical performance in athletes. this study was performed to determine the resistance training (rt) influences on serum cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone in trained young females. materials & methods:the study population consisted o...

objectives thereby the prevalence, distribution characteristics and correlative factors of oa in mongolian middle-aged and senior residents in the inner mongolia autonomous region were investigated in this study. materials and methods rural and urban residents in hohhot, baotou and erdos were selected using stratified, multi-stage and cluster random sampling. 2000 residents aging over 45 filled...

to investigate the electromagnetic interaction of molecules inside the nanotubes, first, the structure of nanotubes b16n16 was optimized with hybrid density functional theory (b3lyp) using the epr-ii basis set, then cu, cu+, cu++ were located in nanotube and we studied the total energy, band gap energy, electrical potential, changes of band gap energy in terms of total energy and dipole moment ...

some physical attributes of two common types of iranian garlic cloves (white and pink) were identified and compared. a machine vision system was used to determine three di-mensions and both major and minor projected areas of garlic cloves at a moisture content of 42.4% w. b. the geometric mean diameter and sphericity were calculated, as well as the unit mass and volume of cloves were measured. ...

conclusions independent of the training sequence, an 8-week concurrent training program caused positive changes in the body composition and physical fitness of our aged female subjects. however, there was no benefit derived from sequence order training. results the intra-session sequence order did not influence the adaptive response of the waist-to-hip ratio (p = 0.55), body fat percentage (bf ...

background: despite therapeutic effect of hemodialysis in end stage renal disease (esrd) patients, these patients encounter different physical and psychological tensional factors. physical exercises have beneficial physical and psychological effects on patients under hemodialysis as one of the accessory therapeutic methods. as few studies have been done about the effects of physical exercise on...

Background and Objectives: Prayer is one of the most important religious ordinances and is one of the necessities of Islam. In spite of the progression of medicine science, it is sometimes seen that the mundane subjects become hopeless in curing physical diseases and this time, the hopeless man appeals to the Lord God. This review study was conducted to examine the positive and negative views r...