background solid organ transplantation patients are at high risk for opportunistic air-borne fungal infections due to using the potent immunosuppressive agents. objectives the current study aimed to qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate the fungal flora present in the air of kidney transplant unit of baqiyatallah hospital. materials and methods in this prospective study, air samples from pa...

pleted the baseline interview, and 90% or more of these completed each of the follow up interviews. In the 3724 person-months during which subjects had "outdoor exposure", 155 falls were reported. The incidence rates of indoor and outdoor falls were 21-2 and 20-4 falls per 1000 person-months, respectively. The table shows that the risk factors differed for indoor and outdoor falls. Our results,...

BACKGROUND Outdoor production of poultry is rapidly increasing, which could be associated with increased risks for exposure to different environmental sources of Salmonella. We report a comparison on the occurrence of Salmonella during 2007-2015 in broilers and laying hens in outdoor and indoor production subjected to the same requirements for the prevention and control of Salmonella as applied...

Introduction Guilan is one of the provinces in North of Iran, with population of 2,480,874 and a total area of ​​14,042 square kilometers. This study assesses the outdoor natural gamma dose rates in the air of 49 cities in Guilan and calculates corresponding average annual effective dose. Materials and Methods A total of 260 different sample points measurements were carried out. The results inc...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the validity of outdoor concentrations of particulate matter < 10 microns diameter (PM10) as a measure of exposure in time series studies, and to study the extent to which differences between personal and outdoor PM10 concentrations can be explained. METHODS Four to eight repeated measurements of personal and outdoor PM10 concentrations were conducted for 45 children...

BACKGROUND Research on social inequalities in sports participation and unstructured physical activity among young children is scarce. This study aimed to assess the associations of family socioeconomic position (SEP) and ethnic background with children's sports participation and outdoor play. METHODS We analyzed data from 4726 ethnically diverse 6-year-old children participating in the Genera...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there is a bi-directional relationship between sleep characteristics (time in bed, sleep duration, sleep chronology, and sleep efficiency) and time spent participating in outdoor active play among children. METHODS Participants consisted of 433 children aged 10-13 years from Kingston, ON, Canada. Time in bed, sleep duration, slee...

Experimental data are presented on the viability of multiple antennas on small mobile handsets, based on extensive measurement campaigns at 2.14GHz with multiple base stations, indoors, from outdoor to indoor, and outdoors. The results show medium to low correlation values between antenna branch signals despite small antenna separations down to 0.16λ. Amplitude distributions are mainly Rayleigh...