epilepsy is a chronic disease that affects different aspects of life; so we studied the quality of life of epileptic patients and compared it with general population of tehran. we collected clinical and demographic data and studied quality of life by using the iranian translation of short form 36 questionnaire version 2 (sf-36). the questionnaires were filled out by 200 patients with epilepsy r...

background and purpose: shiraz university of medical sciences as one of the oldest and largest universities of medicine in iran with 50 years history has more than 450 faculty members and 5000 students. this study is an attempt to find out the level of job satisfaction among shiraz university of medical sciences’ faculty members. methods: in midterm of 2003-2004, data on job satisfaction level ...

CONTEXT A large subset of the population is afflicted with a wide range of food-related inflammatory conditions, with at least 100 million people affected worldwide. The C3d/immunoglobulin G (IgG) test measures both the innate and adaptive responses of the immune system. OBJECTIVE The study intended to validate the C3d/IgG test for food sensitivity for its ability to manage the symptoms of pa...

In this paper, we present a new vision for studying ${F}$-open, ${F}$-continuous, and ${F}$-irresolute function in $(L,M)$-fuzzy topological spaces based on the implication operation and $(L,M)$-fuzzy ${F}$-open operator cite{2}. These kinds of functions are generalized with their elementary properties to $(L,M)$-fuzzy topological spaces setting based on graded concepts. Moreover, a systematic ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a common condition that leads to severe vision loss and dysregulation of the complement system is thought to be associated with the disease. To investigate associations of polymorphisms in AMD susceptibility genes with systemic complement activation, 2655 individuals were genotyped for 32 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in or near 23 AMD associat...

The complement system functions to clear pathogenic threats from the body and is part of the innate immune system. The association between complement protein C3d and B or T cell-receptor CR2 (complement receptor 2) represents a crucial link between innate and adaptive immunities. The goal of this study is to computationally predict association abilities of C3d and CR2 mutants by theoretically c...

few studies use modern approaches to develop a quality of life (qol) questionnaire with acceptable construct validity, especially in iran. our main objective was to construct a new validated and uni-dimensional questionnaire, based on whoqol-100, using the rasch analysis.in a population-based, cross-sectional study in 2007, 500 tehran residents aged≥18 were randomly sampled. the persian version...