BACKGROUND The increase in obesity is due in part to changes in the environment that affect behaviours such as physical activity. Stairwells in buildings present an opportunity to increase physical activity in the workplace. We characterized the stairwell accessibility in business buildings in the downtown core of Vancouver. METHODS Characteristics of the stairwells in business buildings with...

BACKGROUND Traffic and transport is a substantial part of a range of economic, social and environmental factors distinguished to have impact on human health. This paper is a report on a preliminary section of a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) on urban traffic and transport initiatives, being conducted in Sanandaj, Iran. In this preliminary study, the psychometric properties of Urban Traffic rela...

Bovine viral diarrhea disease is one of the viral diseases in cattle that were reported 10-90 percent in many countries. The causative RNA virus is a member of the family Flaviviridae and the genus pestivirus which is antigenically closely related with the virus of BD in sheep. Cattle are the most sensitive species to virus and are considered the principal reservoir of BVD viruses. A large prop...

Background and aim Postpartum period is associated with significant changes in the quality of women's lives. These changes can affect the health of both the mother and child. Given the importance of the postpartum period and the factors influencing quality of life after childbirth especially the method of childbirth, the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between quality of lif...

Recently, the University of Missouri (UM) moved its SuomiNet station from the roof of a building near downtown Columbia, Missouri, USA, to the University’s rural South Farm. Comparisons of Columbia Regional Airport (KCOU) data and SuomiNet data are presented both prior to and after the latter’s relocation. Analysis reveals an elevation of mean temperature by ∼1.5 ◦C at the downtown location, bu...

There are several deployment scenarios for mobile ad-hoc networks discussed in the literature. However, the most results have been made in artificial environments. In this paper we study the performance of state of the art routing protocols for mobile multi-hop ad-hoc networks in an environment which emulates a city downtown. The studied simulation environment differs in three aspects from that...

INTRODUCTION In the near future, retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) will be the most significant cause of blindness in upper and middle-income countries. Due to the increasing survival chances for premature and low birth weight infants and the importance of the diagnosis and treatment of ROP, this study was aimed at determining the prevalence of ROP and its related factors in Sanandaj, Iran, in 2...

Staphylococcus aureusis a major pathogen within hospital and community. The aim of this study was genetic relationship determination in isolates bacteria and dynamic transmission in hospital. Eighty eight S. aureusstrains isolated from different clinical samples and were characterized by Repetitive extragenic palindromic (Rep–PCR) technique. The received results and the similarity between the s...

BACKGROUND Toxoplasma gondii, the obligate intracellular parasite is life threatening in AIDS patients. Diagnosis of toxoplasmosis is based on serological methods especially increasing of IgM and IgG titers, but finding of parasite or its components (antigenemia) may be beneficial method in order to detection of acute toxoplasmosis in immunocompromised patients. METHODS Ninety-four serum samp...