the current study was performed with the aim of investigating the diagnostic utility of bender-gestalt test-ii (bdt-ii) in two groups of patients with major depression and brain-damage, and to compare them with normal individuals. this was a causal-comparative study. major depressive patients (n=30), brain-damaged patients (n=30) and normal subjects (n=30) were compared using bdt-ii in copying,...

Human trafficking has always been of great public interest as a highly damag-ing crime. Since 2011, the number reports on micro-blogs continued to increase, and media have begun be selective change their coverage this issue. This study uses four representative media, namely Peo-ple’s Daily, The Paper, Beijing News, China Women’s re-ports published between 2011 2022 using con-tent analysis. foun...

Parkinson 's dis ease is a slowl y progressive, neurodegenerative di sorder a ffec t ing one in 1,000 of th e gen eral population ; its in cid e nce increases with age , but the ca use remains unknown . The di sease is characte r ized pathologically by a loss of neurons fr om th e pigmented subs ta n t ia nigra par s co mpacta , and a tr iad of ph ysical symptoms of rigidity, tremor, and bradyk...

When certain polysaccharide fractions isolated from cultures of Serra@tia marcescens (6, 2), Aero bader aerogenes, or other Gram-negative bacteria (8) are injected in large doses into mice, symptoms very similar to those of shock occur. The animals are prostrated, their muscular response is much lower than normal, they breathe with difficulty, and the body temperature drops. Similar symp toms a...

formula one legend michael schumacher hit his head severely while skiing on december 29, 2013. he was operated on for brain decompression and left in a coma fighting for life. in such severe brain injury with cerebral contusion and hemorrhage following head trauma, refractory to medical therapy and with increasing cerebral oedema and intracranial pressure, critically low cerebral perfusion can ...

objectives the aim of this study was to present the incidence and characteristics of repeated tbi (rtbi) in iranian patients. patients and methods during one year, all admitted tbi patients with prior tbi history were enrolled into the study. in each patient, data such as age, gender, past medical history, injury cause, anatomic site of injury, tbi severity, clinical findings and ct scan findin...

background traumatic brain injury (tbi) is a worldwide problem, especially in countries with high incidences of road traffic accidents such as iran. patients with a single occurrence of tbi have been shown to be at increased risk to future tbi. this study presents incidences and characteristics of repeated traumatic brain injury (rtbi) in iran. materials and methods during one year, all admitte...

High performance ceramics, particularly Ceramic Matrix Composite (CMC) materials found their way into liquid rocket engines. Yet, so far, mainly carbide or nonoxide CMCs have been of interest. This paper explores the potential and challenges oxide–oxide ceramic matrix composites (OCMCs) for application in thrust chambers. Therefore, strength, leakage hot gas tests are conducted with material sa...

background and aims: there are different causes for brain death including head trauma, cerebrovascular accidents and intracranial space-occupying lesions. the present study was aimed to determine the causes of brain death in chahar mahal and bakhtiari province due to high turnover of trauma in this area during 2003 to 2013. methods: this study was based on routine data and was conducted on all ...