mantoux test using 2 iu of tuberculin prepared in iran was performed on 6675 healthy persons randomly selected from an urban population (shiraz) of iran. in 3776 persons with no evidence of previous bcg vaccination the rate of positive reaction was less than 2% up to the age of 14, slightly more than 2% among those 15-19 years of age, but strikingly higher (45.5%) in older age groups (p<0.001)....

with the arrivalof modernityin iranthe society normshave changedandtraditional patterns,especially family pattern, has been under various changes simultaneously. for instance,theaverage age of marriagefor girlshas increased over the past decades. this paper aims todetermine and analyze factors affecting the gap in women’s behavior and attitudes ontheappropriate age ofmarriage for girlsin the ci...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: This study was designed to assess the correlation between chronological age and modified Demirjian estimated dental age.METHODS: Panoramic radiographs of 183 Patients between 13.5 and 20.5 years old were assessed for the developmental stage of lower right third molars. Student’s t-test was used to measure the same hypothesis of the chronological age and estimated modified De...

Age of Computers (AoC) is a web based multi-player game for teaching computer fundamentals at university level. It is a replacement for traditional paper exercises, and supplements auditorium lectures. The main motivation behind AoC is to try using computer game features to motivate students to learn computer fundamentals. The first version of AoC was thoroughly tested on students autumn 2003. ...

Die Durchführung von Disease Management-Programmen in der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung erfordert eine umfassende DV-Unterstützung. Dieser Praxisbeitrag zeigt, wie die Anwendung DiMaS diese für die AOK-Gemeinschaft sicherstellt, insb. hinsichtlich der Prozesse zur Fallführung und der Datenflüsse im Disease Management. 1 Disease Management-Programme in der GKV Disease-Management-Programme ver...

AIM This study is aimed to investigate differences between cognitive, language and motor development of high-risk infants related to birth weight and gestational age. MATERIAL AND METHODS One hundred sixty high-risk infants who were born 32 weeks, 1 500 gr and below included in this study. According to corrected age, 58 infants were 1 month, 72 were at 4 months, 82 were at 8 months and 65 wer...

C ABSTRACT The purpose of this investigation was to test whether the or system model was more adequate to account for the relati:',Iit.138 among subskills in normal and disabled readers. Thirty-i..ight subjects were divided into three groups._There were 19 disabled subjects with a mean chronological age of 9.17, a mean IQ of 104.84, and a mean reading level of 1.80. Ten normal-old subjects were...

Previous studies conducted by Yamazaki and Eto on the background colors of on-line tests indicated that a combination of black text and a white background color was not considered preferable for Web-based tests (WBTs). In this study, the authors conducted an experiment to see if a background color can affect the scores of a Web-based English listing test. Thirty three subjects in their twenties...

Localization responses to a 4,000-Hz octave-band noise in a background of broad-spectrum noise were obtained from infants, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months of age, and adults. A twoalternative, forced-choice procedure was used to determine thresholds at each of two levels of masking noise, 42 and 60 dBC. Adults were also tested for their localization of pure tones in noise and their detection of octave...