BACKGROUND The notion of the individual burden associated with a disease has been introduced to determine 'disability' in the broadest sense: psychological, social, economic and physical. Subtypes of epidermolysis bullosa (EB) are rare, life-threatening, untreatable chronic genodermatoses. OBJECTIVES To develop and validate a specific questionnaire assessing the burden on families of children...

Laboratory-based body-composition techniques include hydrostatic weighing (HW), dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), measurement of total body water (TBW) by isotope dilution, measurement of total body potassium, and multicompartment models. Although these reference methods are used routinely, each has inherent practical limitations. Whole-body air-displacement plethysmography is a new pract...

In this work, we present the result of an electric coagulation process with iron and aluminum electrodes for removal of chemical and biological oxygen demand (COD and BOD) from grey water in different car washes of Ahvaz, Iran. Nowadays, one of the important dangerous that can contaminate water resources for drinking, agriculture and industrial is Car wash effluent [1,2]. In this study, initial...

BACKGROUND The assessment of the severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) should involve a multidimensional approach that is now clearly shown to be better than using spirometric impairment alone. The aim of this study is to validate and compare novel tools without an exercise test and to extend prognostic value to patients with less severe impairment of Forced expiratory volume...

We have developed a novel mediated biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) biosensor based on immobilized Bacillus subtilis (B. subtilis) on three-dimensional (3D) porous graphene-polypyrrole (rGO-PPy) composite. The 3D porous rGO-PPy composite was prepared using hydrothermal method following with electropolymerization. Then the 3D porous rGO-PPy composite was used as a support for immobilizing negativ...

A study was conducted to assess the performance of anaerobic-aerobic treatment system of a local potato processing industry. The wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) consisted of primary treatment, upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB), activated sludge process (ASP) and secondary clarifier. The study analyzed the physical, chemical and biochemical parameters of the influent (raw sewage) as well ...

The efficiency of constructed wetland to treat weak and medium primary sewage effluent was tested under three rates of sewage inflow and two types of growing plants (i.e., leaf cattail and common reed). The capability of the wetland to remove COD, BOD, TSS, TDS and F. coliform from the primary weak sewage increased with decreasing the rate of the sewage inflow from 12 L/hr. to 6L/hr., with litt...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the balloon occlusive diameter (BOD) of non-circular defects in the transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect (ASD). SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 67 patients who had undergone transcatheter closure of an ASD were reviewed retrospectively. A non-circular defect was defined as the ratio of the short diameter to the long d...

عصاره گیاه رزماری، 4 برابر آنتی­اکسیدان‌­های مصنوعی مانند BHT و BHA خاصیت آنتی­اکسیدانی دارد. رزمارینیک اسید نه تنها به دلیل خواص قوی مورد توجه است بلکه خصوصیات ضدالتهابی، ضدتوموری، ضدباکتریایی، ضدویروسی ضدسرطانی را نیز در پژوهش‌­های مختلف نشان داده است. هدف از این تحقیق، بررسی اثرات دما، زمان، pH غلظت پرتودیده نشان‌دارسازی آن با رادیوایزوتوپ گالیم-67 عنوان یک عامل تصویربرداری وضوح بالا برای تو...