In spite of the hype in the international media about India’s global integration, economic reform there has been rather halting and hesitant. Cheerleaders of reform among corporate tycoons and financial columnists are often not aware how unpopular reform is, rightly or wrongly, among the general public in India. In the National Election Survey 2004 more than twothirds of about 23000 sample resp...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa microsoftinternetexplorer4 objective: occupational burns are among the important causes of work-related fatalities and absenteeism. epidemiologic assessment of these injuries is important to define high-risk jobs. we designed this study to evaluate the epidemiology of occupational burns in yazd, an industrial province in iran. materials and methods: th...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: in radiation therapy with ion beams, lateral distributions of absorbed dose in the tissue are important. heavy ion therapy, such as carbon-ion therapy, is a novel technique of high-precision external radiotherapy which has advantages over proton therapy in terms of dose locality and biological effectiveness. metho...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa microsoftinternetexplorer4 aim : the aim of this study was to describe our results and investigate the survival of below - 18 - year - old patients undergoing lrdlt and the factors affecting this. background : living related donor liver transplantation (lrdlt) has become a good option to provide suitable grafts for children with liver diseases. using t...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa microsoftinternetexplorer4 aim : the aim of this study is to look for the proper methods that would be a major step towards untreated cd diagnosis and seek the metabolic biomarkers causes of cd and compare them to control group. background : celiac disease (cd) is a common autoimmune disorder that is not easily diagnosed using the clinical tests. patie...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa microsoftinternetexplorer4 aim : this study aimed to determine the association between pd-1.5c/t (rs2227981, +7785) and the risk of gastric cancer (gc) in an iranian population. background : gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the world. the programmed death 1 (pd-1) is a member of the cd28 super family. pd-1 is a negative regulator of t...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: scrubbing is the most common brushing method for children. the goal of our study was to find out what time length of scrubbing could be most effective on the reduction of plaque index among children of 10 to 12 years. materials and methods: in this interventional experimental research, 60 primary school children...