fever accompanied by rash is a common finding in pediatric patients. although, in most cases, the disease is trivial, in some cases it may be the first and/or the sole manifestation of a serious and life threatening condition in patients. the spectrum of differential diagnosis is broad and many different infectious and some noninfectious agents cause this syndrome. to establish a timely diagnos...

today, discussions on health have considered the spiritual – mental health on a par with physical health. a close relationship can be seen between two points, mental health and ethical, training issues, so that individuals who do not have spiritual virtues and religious training are not healthy individuals. due to the considerable importance of moral and mental health about children, this study...

one of the interesting topics on multimedia domain is concerned with empowering computer in order to speech production. speech synthesis is granting human abilities to the computer for speech production. data-based approach and process-based approach are the two main approaches on speech synthesis. each approach has its varied challenges. unit-selection speech synthesis and statistical parametr...

background: non-communicable diseases (ncds) annually kill over 35 million people worldwide. they are responsible for nearly two-thirds of the world's deaths. global health is facing a dramatic change. for the first time in human history, more than 80% of ncd-related deaths are in low- and middle-income countries. countries throughout the world are expected to lose significant amounts of nation...

background : some researchers have argued that job satisfaction has been vaguely defined in the organizational literature. also, there is a lack of consensus over the meaning of job satisfaction in literature. the aim of this study was to clarify dimensions of job satisfaction's concept based on a systematic review study.   materials and methods: the present study used a systematic review ...

background: letters to the editor provide an opportunity for readers to state their views about published articles. research on this issue has been mainly on western journals and there is no study on the iranian journals. the present study aimed to investigate this subject in iranian biomedical journals. materials and method: this was a bibliometric study. the databases of iran medex, medlib, a...

safranal, the main component of crocus sativus essential oil, is thought to be the main cause of saffron unique odor. it is now about eighty years that this compound has been discovered and since then different scientific experiments have been done investigating its biological-pharmacological activities. safranal effects in cns have been more attractive to scientists and an escalating number of...

background: the inappropriate use of aminoglycosides has harmful effects such as the development of resistant pathogens and the incidence of nephrotoxicity and ototoxicity. therefore, drug utilization evaluation of these drugs may improve their usage remarkably. the aim of this study was to assess the usage pattern of amikacin in an internal medicine ward. methods: this cross-sectional study wa...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of life review therapy on depression reduction of elder women of yazd. methods & materials: method of the research was semi-experimental design by pre-post test with a control group. research population consisted of the elder women who were nursing home residents in yazd. the fateme_alzahra nursing home of taft was rando...

background: antibiotics can be life saving if they are used correctly, and can have unwanted side effects specially resistance with incorrect use. unfortunately in fear of no response, physicians use broad spectrum antibiotics meticulously. in this drug utilization evaluation (due), improper use of vancomycin and five broad-spectrum antibiotics are studied to find faults and solution for this p...