OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Korean Verbal Abuse Questionnaire (K-VAQ) that consists of 15 items related with life-time verbal aggression exposure. METHODS A total of 5814 university students who agreed to take part in the study completed the K-VAQ, the Korean version of the Life Event CheckList (LEC-K) and Impact of Event Scale-Revi...

PURPOSE Color vision and self-reported visual function in everyday life in young adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) were investigated. METHOD Participants were 30 young adults with ADHD and 30 controls matched for age and gender. They were tested individually and completed the Visual Activities Questionnaire (VAQ), Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue Test (FMT) and A Quick Tes...

BACKGROUND The effectiveness of inhaled aerosolized antibiotics is limited by poor ventilation of infected airways. Pulmonary delivery of antibiotics emulsified within liquid perfluorocarbon [antibacterial perfluorocarbon ventilation (APV)] may solve this problem through better airway penetration and improved spatial uniformity. However, little work has been done to explore emulsion formulation...

Introduction: Vascular access for hemodialysis (HD) is essential the patient. Even though Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) preferred access, in certain age groups, central venous catheter (CVC) may provide advantages. This study aims to investigate quality of life related vascular access. Methods: Cross-sectional including patients from a hospital, home HD unit and satellite center. Clinical data wa...

Commentary Analyses of cause of death (COD) statistics are fundamental for monitoring the health situation of populations and for planning suitable interventions. The accuracy of national COD statistics is important for reliably prioritizing health problems in order to decide upon interventions and for resource allocation. The completeness of registration in the Death Registration System (DRS),...

the iranian world has a well-established tradition of images that goes back to anitiquity. the structure relation between text and image become increasingly intricate in illustrated manuscripts, at least from the middle of forteenth century onwards. these links can be observed through the composition and layout of the paintings. these relations seem to be expressed in some persian poetical text...

Background: Limonene is an important monoterpene used as a chemical commodity and precursor for producing biofuels, flavor and medicinal compounds. Results: In this paper, we engineered Escherichia coli by embedding two exogenous genes encoding a limonene synthase (LS) and a geranyl diphosphate synthase (GPPS) for production of limonene. Out of 12 E. coli strains transformed with various plasmi...

Background: One of the problem phenomena that still occurs in school-age children is verbal abuse, violence harms physically and verbally. Children who get abuse will generally imitate same things they receive from their parents. This research aimed to analyze correlation between parental behavior psychosocial development children. Method: used a correlational design with cross-sectional approa...