Background & Aims: stroke is a stressful event associated with numerous physical, psychological, social and economical problems that can complicate the balance of different life aspects, but after a period of time, patients try to benefit from different coping styles to reduce their problems and retain to a normal life. The aims of this study were to investigate coping strategies used by stroke...

sand dune habitats in desert regions have harsh conditions for plant establishment and survival. ammodendron persicum, an psamophyte shrub plant belongs to leguminosae family, which grows over the desert sand dunes of zirkohgaen, gezik and khash  along east part of iran. recognizing the adaptive features of the plant species may help towards its conservation and introducing to other sand dune h...

introduction: few researches have been conducted researches on the influence of the type of dental stone used for fabrication of casts on the adaptation of denture bases. the purpose of this study was to compare the effect of two types of stone casts on the accuracy of fit in complete denture bases. methods: using sixty fully replicated master casts obtained by duplicating a metal die represent...

background and aims: in various clinical situations, mineral trioxide aggregate (mta) may come into direct contact with blood. the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of exposure to blood on marginal adaptation and surface microstructure of mta. materials and methods: thirty extracted human single-rooted teeth were used in this study. standard root canal treatment was carried ou...

objective: school-based interventions (such as life skills training) have become the mainstay for prevention of some behavioral problems. this study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of a social skills training program on a group of students who were in the first grade of high school in an urban area of tehran, iran. method: in a before-after study, a kind of social skill education program...

background: spiritual intelligence is defined as the human capacity to ask questions about the ultimate meaning of life and the integrated relationship between us and the world in which we live. it results in an increase in psychological welt-being of individuals as well as having a goal in their life. this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between spiritual intelligence with ...

in this paper we analyzed some of the phonological rules of russian loanword adaptation in persian, on the view of optimal theory (ot) (prince and smolensky, 1993, 2003). it is the first study of phonological process on russian loanwords adaptation in persian. by gathering about 50 current russian loanwords, we selected some of them to analyze. we found out that vowel insertion, vowel prothesis...