objectives: the aims of this study were to investigate the association of mini-nutritional assessment and activities of daily living as well as examining mini nutritional assessment as a good prognostic tool ofactivities of daily living in elderly residents of nursing home. methods & materials: in a cross-sectional study, among 1200 recorded files, 247 subjects completed mini nutritional assess...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect two antiglaucoma procedures, namely trabeculectomy and Ex-PRESS mini-shunt insertion on biomechanical properties cornea. This a prospective study. Thirty patients (30 eyes) were included in Nineteen eyes had an shunt inserted (Group 1) 11 2). examination time points for both groups one three weeks preoperatively at month 1, 6, 12 postoperativel...

Background and objective:Many biochemical features of sulfur mustard (SM) intoxication remained unknown. So far, the direct association between biochemical parameter changes and ocular problems in patients exposed to SM is not evaluated.The current study aimed at evaluating the associations between the ocular findings in patients with SM intoxication and the changes of...

In this paper, mini-channel type evaporator which is new in mobile air conditioning (MAC) or automotive air conditioning (AAC) systems is thermally modeled. The performance of mini-channel evaporator is also compared with the laminated evaporator which is being currently used in automotive industries. The mini-channel evaporator was constructed of two rows of parallel flow mini-channel tubes...

the histopathologic diagnosis of orbital and ocular adnexal lymphoproliferative lesions is difficult, resulting controversy in classification, determining benignity or malignancy of them and treatment modality selection. we designed the following study to evaluate clinical, histopathologic and if necessary immunochemical features of them in decreasing indeterminate cases. the study includes 51 ...

solar mini-dimmings can be detect in the extreme ultra-violet coronal eruptions. here, sequences of 171_a images taken by solar dynamic observatory/atmospheric imaging assembaly on 13 june 2010 are used. in this special day, both of coronal mass ejection and prominence were observed. the average velocities and accelerations of 500 mini-dimmings which were detected using on feature based classif...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Ocular disorder like, diplopia, mydriasis, blurred vision, ptosis, exophthalmos, and blindness (permanent or temporary) are infrequent complications of an injection of local anesthetics in mouth.The main purpose of this study was to survey the dentist’s knowledge and attitude about ocular disorders due to intra-oral anesthetics injection.<br...