In the present rapidly growing world, health systems should be robust enough to respond appropriately to a wide range of new challenges and threats.1 Health workforce composes the backbone of the health system; so, any flaw in terms of the human resource numbers or skills would adversely affect the performance of the system2 So, the level of knowledge and the way of acting in the system are cru...

In this study, we aimed to determine the contribution of peroxynitrite-dependent sulfhydryl group (SH) oxidation to the contractile dysfunction in permeabilized left ventricular human cardiomyocytes using a comparative approach with the SH-oxidant 2,2'-dithiodipyridine (DTDP). Additionally, different antioxidants: dithiothreitol (DTT), reduced glutathione (GSH) or N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) were...

Treatment effects on bone quality and remodeling was assessed in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis treated with oral alendronate. One transiliac bone biopsy was obtained from 231 women at either 24 mo ( n 5 11) or 36 mo ( n 5 120) from the start of treatment with alendronate at doses of between 5 and 20 mg/d, or placebo. 64 biopsies at 24 mo (31 from the placebo group and 33 alendronatetre...

The Discontinuous Galerkin Time Domain (DGTD) methods are now widely used for the solution of wave propagation problems. Able to deal with unstructured meshes past complex geometries, they remain fully explicit with easy parallelization and extension to high orders of accuracy. Still, modal or nodal local basis functions have to be chosen carefully to obtain actual numerical accuracy. Concernin...

Muscular weakness due to classical disease is readily diagnosed; when symptoms are vague, signs equivocal, and the history confused much difficulty may arise. Walton (1956) has reviewed the use in diagnosis of examination of the cerebrospinal fluid, muscle biopsy histology, and electromyography. More recently, assay of the serum enzymes aldolase, glutamic-oxalacetic and glutamic-pyruvic transam...

Accurate determination of the specific absorption rate (SAR) is an important aspect in understanding the interaction between electromagnetic fields (EMF) and living matter. Influences due to dielectric properties, shape, and size of the exposed tissues have been considered to play an important role in the determination of SAR distributions in anatomical rat models [1-2]. Direction and polarisat...

Nitric oxide (NO), produced by NO synthase (NOS), serves multiple functions in the perinatal lung. In fetal baboons, neuronal (nNOS), endothelial (eNOS), and inducible NOS (iNOS) are all primarily expressed in proximal respiratory epithelium. In the present study, NOS expression and activity in proximal lung and minute ventilation of NO standard temperature and pressure (VeNO(STP)) were evaluat...

N. Rastkhah, K. Edalati, A. Kermani, M. Seiedi, A. Movafeghi Safety and Radiation Protection Technological Center, Iranian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Northern Kargar Ave., Tehran, Iran Abstract: This study is a new attempt followed the research project conducted by IAEA in a Contract Research Project (CRP). In this new challenge, the reference blocks desig...

The purpose of this study was to identify external factors affecting strategic management in agricultural knowledge and information system and to examine their relative importance from experts’ point of view. Five factors were identified based on the interviews, examination of relevant literature and previous researches; In line with that, a questionnaire was developed to suit this purpose. Fac...

Le changement climatique et l’anthropisation sont les principaux forçages qui influencent significativement la variabilité des écoulements cours d’eau. Cependant, compréhension de leur impact simultané sur reste limitée. L’objectif cette étude est d’appréhender l’impact précipitations du bassin versant Mefou une période récente (1950-51 à 2018-2019). Pour cela, données hydropluviométriques conc...