BACKGROUND Descemet Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSAEK) allows selective replacement of the endothelium. Post-operative haze and particles can affect the interface quality and, ultimately, visual outcome. In this study, we evaluated DSAEK interface with in vivo laser confocal microscopy (LCM) in order to: (i) correlate interface status with best corrected visual acuity, and (ii...

One of the important abilities of learners is to monitor their own learning process and take charge of their development. To this end and based on the correlational nature of the study design, total of 125 students (for the Winter semester of 2017) educating at Zanjan Universities (89 B.A. students of Islamic Azad University and 60 B.A. students of Payam-e-Noor University) were chosen as the st...

the purpose of this research was to study the role of non-governmental organization inpreserving of urban green areas in the city of tehran. this is a descriptive-correlationresearch method. population of this study was 120 active members of two non-governmentalorganizations in tehran. after distributing the questionnaires, 62 questionnaires werereturned. content and face validity of the instru...

This study aims to describe the relationship of striving for superiority as a soft skill learning motivation. The approach used is quantitative with descriptive methods in deaf students sample Cerebral Palsy Bandung Regency. Correlative testing performed using spearman correlation tests between variables and motivation variables. results showed that has very strong so it becomes an aspect must ...

BACKGROUND We aimed to compare the clinical judgments of a reference panel of emergency medicine academic physicians against evidence-based likelihood ratios (LRs) regarding the diagnostic value of selected clinical and paraclinical findings in the context of a script concordance test (SCT). FINDINGS A SCT with six scenarios and five questions per scenario was developed. Subsequently, 15 emer...

Method Current research comprised of histo-morphometrical study of 120 skin samples collected in horizontal and vertical orientations from anterior chest area and lateral chest areas of formalin embalmed human cadavers (n = 30). The quantitative fraction of dermal collagen and elastic fiber content was obtained by tissue-quant image analysis. Spearman correlation coefficient (r) was computed to...