introduction: second national medical sciences olympiad was done in shiraz in august 2010 with aim of indentifying scientifically talented individuals, motivating students and orienting extracurricular activities. this olympiad was done in 3 areas, basic sciences, clinical sciences and management. in clinical sciences, we used tosce (team objective structured clinical examination). in this arti...

background: different studies have shown that inadequate and unbalanced intake of nutrients including micronutrient and macronutrient, have negative effects on exercise performance and optimal ability; besides, it decreases physical efficiency in athletes. the present study aimed to assess the nutritional status and body composition of female athletic students in isfahan university of medical s...

Well-separated pair decomposition, introduced by Callahan and Kosaraju [3], has found numerous applications in solving proximity problems for points in the Euclidean space. A pair of point sets (A, B) is c-well-separated if the distance between A,B is at least c times the diameters of both A and B. A well-separated pair decomposition of a point set consists of a set of well-separated pairs that...

People in South Asia who neither believe god(s) nor engage religious practices nevertheless often self-identify as Muslims or Hindus rather than—or addition to—identifying atheists. The situational and contextual dynamics generating such positionings have implications for the conceptualization of nonreligion secular lives. Based on ethnographic research India Bangladesh focusing two individuals...