BACKGROUND Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is affected by numerous variables including depression and anxiety. However, these associations have not yet been described among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and the impact of SLE-related clinical variables remains unknown. OBJECTIVES In this cross-sectional study, the prevalence of depression and anxiety among Iranian pat...

Agriculture is the origin of existence and survival in any society. However, this sector always associated with risk uncertainty, farmers are faced many challenges. Therefore, main aim research was to explore (production) factors irrigated wheat production systems among Kermanshah province, Iran. The exploratory nature study on one hand need for expert judgment other necessitated a Delphi desig...

the purpose of this study is to investigate comparative advantages of corn in comparison with other competitor crops. to do so, linear programming, to 2004-2005 data related to classic index (drc) in kermanshah province was applied. results showed that corn has comparative advantages in all regions of kermanshah province while in optimal cultivation pattern of 37.5 percentages of regions in exi...

1Educational Development Centre and Reproductive Research Centre; 2Medical School; 3Department of Research; 4Psychiatry Hospital; 5Department of Biostatistics, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to S. Iranfar: [email protected]). ABSTRACT A study was carried out to determine the association between unintended pregnancy and preand pos...

APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS Mohammad Rafieniaa; Mahmood Amirib; Mohsen Janmalekic; Alireza Sadeghiand a Medical Physics and BioMedical Engineering Department, School of Medicine, Biosensor Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran b Medical Biology Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermansha...

Inclusion body hepatitis (IBH) has been reported in many countries in the world. The IBH or similar cases characterized by hepatitis and presence of intra-nuclear inclusion bodies in hepatocytes have not been reported in broiler chickens in Iran. This is the first report on outbreak of adenovirus-like inclusion body hepatitis in Iran. On October 2012, an onset of high acute mortality in a flock...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV), the prototype member of the family hepadnaviridae, is a human pathogen, causing the serious liver disease. The virus is the major cause of chronic hepatitis cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma worldwide. HBV has been classified into eight genotypes, which vary in geographic distribution. The aim of this study was to recognize the HBV genotypes in hepatitis B surface...

BACKGROUND Male breast cancer (MBC) is a rare disease that accounts for less than 1% of all cancers in men and less than 1% of all diagnosed breast cancers. In this study, we retrospectively evaluated the clinicopathological features, treatment options and overall survival in Kurdish MBC cases. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventeen MBC were referred to Department of Radiation Oncology in Imam Reza ...