“International Congress of Airway & Interstitial Lung Diseases” took place on November 14-16, 2018, in Pardisan Hotel,Mashhad,Iran. Hosted in our home city of Mashhad, the second largest city, in the North East of Iran. It is famous for the holy shrine of Imam Reza as well as Toos,the residence of Ferdowsi, the great Persian poet. The congress scientific program presented the best in science an...

Abstract Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a class of chronic disorders whose etiogenesis still unknown. Despite the high number IBD-related omics studies, RNA-sequencing data produced results that are hard to compare because experimental variability and different analysis approaches. We here introduce IBD Transcriptome Metatranscriptome Meta-Analysis (TaMMA) framework, comprehensive survey p...

OBJECTIVE To implement an interactive program for teaching coagulation disorders on the World Wide Web. DESIGN AND RESULTS The core materials in this program were derived from a personal computer software program previously designed by the authors. Three modules were developed in this program: (1) a coagulation profile to display typical results of coagulation screening tests for each disorde...

Women with “co-occurring disorders” are a diverse group—they may have major depression, bipolar disorder, or posttraumatic stress disorder, in addition to their addiction to one or more drugs. Some suffer from psychotic spectrum disorders, including schizophrenia. Treatment of their complex, interactive disorders will span a several year period and involve admissions to hospitals, participation...

(conscious) processing [7,14]. This methodological flaw precludes the determination of subjective threshold for each subject by assuming a generalized (objective) awareness threshold for the whole sample. Furthermore, the ecological validity of these studies is still inadequate, and most of them employ threatening pictures to assess phobia to spider rather than more realistic environments [5,7,...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of blended learning and multimedia software on iranian esp students' vocabulary learning. to this end, 120 iranian esp learners were assigned to two groups: the experimental and control groups. the experimental group received instructions through multimedia software while the control group received traditional instructions. the data were c...

Health professionals are not immune to stigmatizing attitudes and stereotypes found in society-at-large. Along with patients and their loved ones, treatment providers are important stakeholders - and gatekeepers - in the successful delivery of mental healthcare. Prevailing attitudes among professionals can facilitate timely recognition, enable access to care and uptake of evidence-based practic...