BACKGROUND The literature reports that the health benefits of vegetable oil can be deteriorated by repeated heating, which leads to lipid oxidation and the formation of free radicals. Virgin coconut oil (VCO) is emerging as a functional food oil and its health benefits are attributed to its potent polyphenolic compounds. We investigated the beneficial effect of VCO supplementation on lipid prof...

This paper proposes an efficient, low complexity, scalable audio coder based on a combination of two embedded coding algorithms: the SPIHT (set partitioning in hierarchical trees) coding algorithm [1] and an embedded, nested binary set partitioning (NBSP) algorithm. The SPIHT algorithm, considered to be the premier state-of-the-art algorithm in still image compression, is used for the low frequ...

abstract background: cultural values are invisible and relatively constant in societies. the purpose of the present study is to find diversities in cultural values of iranian and malaysian nursing students. materials and methods: convenience sampling method was used for this comparative-descriptive study to gather the data from full-time undergraduate degree nursing students in iran and malaysi...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to translate, adapt and validate the “Perceived Devaluation and Discrimination Scale” (PDD) in Spanish in a sample of people with schizophrenia. METHOD A total of 130 people between 18 and 65 years and with a diagnosis of schizophrenia according to DSM-IV-R criteria from Barcelona and Vitoria were included. The patients were assessed with the tr...

background: today, the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders is one of the health issues of concern in any society. one of the main causes of musculoskeletal disorders and conditions can be named unpleasant working conditions. the aim of this study was to report the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders including working postures and lifting-related musculoskeletal disorders among workers o...