OBJECTIVES Primary or adult type hypolactasia, the most common enzyme deficiency in the world, is due to reduced lactase activity in the intestinal cell after weaning. Lactase non-persistence is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. A DNA variant, single nucleotide polymorphism C/T-13910 which is located on 13910 base pairs (bp) upstream of the lactase gene (LCT) at chromosome 2 has been s...

Background and purpose: Metadiscourse markers (MDMs) play a significant role in academic witting. They act as a bridge between writers and readers and make a text more understandable. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the use of MDMs in introduction, methods, results, and discussion (IMRaD) sections of English medical research articles (RAs) published in Iranian and American ISI jour...

The CIA was originally established as an agency charged with putting together information from all other intelligence agencies. However, in the midst of the Cold War and with the election of President Eisenhower, a new role for the CIA surfaced. Across the globe, in Iran, in 1951 the people had elected a Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossaddegh, who opposed British control over Iranian oil fields. T...

purpose: to explore the attitude of the iranian members towards their american academy of ophthalmology (aao) membership and their utilization pattern of the aao’s services methods: mailed questionnaire survey to 34 current aao members in 2005 results: twenty nine members (85%) participated. almost 50% of the members judged the membership process as not being easy. about 80% of the respondents ...

BACKGROUND Adolescence is an important period since the establishment of dietary pattern can also affect the adulthood. This study aimed to estimate the overall prevalence of skipping breakfast among Iranian students. METHODS The international and national databases, including Medline, Scopus, Science Direct, Embase, Web of sciences, Google Scholar, MagIran, and SID were searched 1945-2016 as...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE To compare the scores from the Iranian version of the Frontal Systems Behavioral Scale (FSBS) with the norms collected for the American, English-speaking population and to examine the ability of the FSBS to discriminate between acquired brain injury and addiction. RESEARCH DESIGN Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and post hoc Bonferroni tests. METHODS AND PROCEDUR...

PURPOSE The objective of this study was to compare the Iranian taekwondo-in statistically in terms of total injury rates to international counterparts as gleaned from the extant literature. METHODS The Iranian sample consisted of 204 male taekwondo-in participating in the national championship. The international sample included the participants in national and international tournaments. Valid...

the art of comics is one of the artistic medium which illustrates a story with various concepts through frames of images. this kind of artistic expression, from its beginning time till now, has been passed various stages of developments in the aesthetic field of visual arts, and it has been achieved special and singular form and characteristic, and it has been gained a unique way of expression ...

A Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain (UCBPP-PA14) is infectious both in an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf infiltration model and in a mouse full-thickness skin burn model. UCBPP-PA14 exhibits ecotype specificity for Arabidopsis, causing a range of symptoms from none to severe in four different ecotypes. In the mouse model, UCBPP-PA14 is as lethal as other well-studied P. aeruginosa strains. Mutations in ...