هدف: هدف این پژوهش مقایسه اثربخشی امیددرمانی و معنویت درمانی بر کیفیت زندگی، قند خون فشار زنان میانسال مبتلا به دیابت نوع دو بود. روش: حاضر نیمه آزمایشی با طرح پیش آزمون- پس پیگیری گروه گواه جامعه آماری شامل تمام 2 مراجعه کننده مرکز تحقیقات دیابت، متابولیسم غدد شهر تهران در سال 1399 بودند که ‏45 نفر شیوه نمونه‌گیری دسترس انتخاب صورت تصادفی آزمایش یک (هر 15 نفر) قرار گرفتند. ابزار پرسشنامه کوتاه...

Alterations in triglyceride and cholesterol metabolism often accompany inflammatory diseases and infections. We studied the effects of endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide [LPS]) and cytokines on hepatic sphingolipid synthesis, activity of serine palmitoyltransferase (SPT), the first and rate-limiting enzyme in sphingolipid synthesis, and lipoprotein sphingolipid content in Syrian hamsters. Administra...

BACKGROUND Identifying toddlers at increased risk of developing persistent wheeze provides an opportunity for risk-reducing interventions. House dust mite (HDM) allergen sensitization might identify this group of high-risk children. OBJECTIVE We examined whether a positive skin prick test (SPT) to at least 1 of the 3 HDMs in wheezing toddlers, would serve as a predictor for persistent wheeze ...

We give a new generalization of the spt-function of G.E. Andrews, namely Sptj(n), and give its combinatorial interpretation in terms of successive lower-Durfee squares. We then generalize the higher order spt-function sptk(n), due to F.G. Garvan, to jsptk(n), thus providing a two-fold generalization of spt(n), and give its combinatorial interpretation.

Spontaneous germinal center (Spt-GC) B cells and follicular helper T cells generate high-affinity autoantibodies that are involved in the development of systemic lupus erythematosus. TLRs play a pivotal role in systemic lupus erythematosus pathogenesis. Although previous studies focused on the B cell-intrinsic role of TLR-MyD88 signaling on immune activation, autoantibody repertoire, and system...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate bone loss around implants placed in patients with a history of treated chronic periodontitis and who did or did not attend supportive periodontal therapy, after one year in function. Furthermore, the influence of periodontal biotype and level of plaque was also evaluated. MATERIAL AND METHODS Forty-nine patients participated voluntarily in the study. All subjects had a h...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the value of C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) as a surrogate marker for detection of coronary artery spasm in variant angina pectoris (VAP). SUBJECTS AND METHODS Sixty-six patients (mean age: 51±11 years, M : F=40 : 26) who underwent coronary angiography on suspicion of angina and who were diagnosed with VAP by the acetylcholin...

BACKGROUND Ara h2 sIgE serum levels improve the diagnostic accuracy for predicting peanut allergy, but the use of Ara h2 purified protein as a skin prick test (SPT), has not been substantially evaluated. The fraction of exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) shows promise as a novel biomarker of peanut allergy. Reproducibility of these measures has not been determined. The aim was to assess the accuracy a...

In this paper we present a new algorithm, fast simulated evolutionary optimization (FSEO), a multi-agent stochastic search method for optimizing the coefficients of digital filters in the signed powers-of-two (SPT) space by minimizing the weighted squared error between discrete filter frequency response and desired frequency response. Unlike conventional methods where each coefficient is alloca...