Background: Goiter is thyroid enlargement, which is the most common visible symptom of iodine deficiency. Some studies have shown iodine deficiency in water, soil, and food in many places worldwide. We aimed to determine the prevalence of goiter and the association between urine iodine levels in children with severity and prevalence of goiter in mountainous villages of Kashan city (center of Ir...

Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran. [email protected] Abstract: Hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) in addition to provide the benefits of electric vehicles could satisfy consumers for some performances of conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles such as acceleration and long range. On this way, suitable energy optimization strategies s...

BACKGROUND Trauma, in addition to mortality and disability experienced by an individual, imposes direct and indirect economic and social costs on a community. Traditionally, trauma is a disease of young and middle age adults, an age group which is known to be the most dynamic and economically productive of the community. Increasing our knowledge concerning the etiology and patterns of trauma se...

Experimental comparisons of process and outcome in distant versus face-to-face conditions may influence the future practice of psychology. Conventional wisdom insists that, for most purposes, the therapist and client must be in the same room. Overall, our training as psychologists has emphasized face-to-face contact as the ideal. It will be interesting to discover whether this is true. Moreover...

BACKGROUND Apart from the mortality, road traffic injuries are associated with significant morbidities. This study has aimed to examine the pattern of traffic accident-related extremity fractures/dislocations and their related disabilities. METHODS A retrospective hospital-based study was conducted to assess the characteristics of limb fractures/dislocations among road traffic accident victim...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relationship between vitamin D and serum antioxidant vitamins E and A, and their deficiencies in pregnant women. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out in the maternity clinic of Naghavi Specialists and Subspecialities Polyclinic, affiliated to Kashan University of Medical Sciences Kashan, Iran between April 2008 and August 2009. One hundred and forty-seven...

fakharian e1 (md), tagharrobi z 2 * (msc), mirhoseini f3 (msc), rasoulinejad sa2 (phd), akbari h4 (msc), ameli h5 (msc)    1 neurosurgery department, kashan medical faculty, kashan university of medical sciences, kashan, iran   2 health & management nursing department, kashan nursing & midwifery faculty,   kashan university of medical sciences, kashan, iran   3 anesthesiology department, kashan...

From the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston (P.W.K.); School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle (C.S.H.); Carolina Urologic Research Center, Myrtle Beach, SC (N.D.S.); School of Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY (E.R.B.); Urologic Oncology Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco (E.J.S.); Van...