background: hospitalization in the coronary care unit (ccu) is a concern for patients and their companions. different studies have presented conflicting results about the effect of visitors on physiological parameters of patients. the purpose of this study was to determine changes in physiological parameters (systolic and diastolic blood pressure and heart rate) due to presence of visitors at t...

Integration of audio and video signals for automatic speech recognition has become an important field of study. The AudioVisual Speech Recognition (AVSR) system is known to have accuracy higher than audio-only or visual-only system. The research focused on the visual front end and has been centered around lip segmentation. Experiments performed for lip feature extraction were mainly done in con...

Personalising Information Security Education Shuhaili Talib Whilst technological solutions go a long way in providing protection for users online, it has been long understood that the individual also plays a pivotal role. Even with the best of protection, an illinformed person can effectively remove any protection the control might provide. Information security awareness is therefore imperative...

background: changes in global temperature and its health effects have recently been under much investigated. consequently, these changes have affected mortality and morbidity rates which are important public health indices. the present study examines the effect of mean temperature on the frequency of hospitalization due to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases in ali ibn abi talib hospital of...

opinions differ in the ratio of hair infallible imams general and imam ali bin al-hussein (as) and quoted poems and pieces of imams in some of the books about the virtues of al-abi talib and the seas and the lights .... and codified set their poetry such as divan of imam sajjad (as). some of the literary heritage of the islamic and is still the subject of controversy in order to rate a particul...

background: cardiac dysfunction due to chronic anemia and hemosiderosis are the major causes of death among patients with thalassemia intermedia. this study was performed to compare the cardiac function in thalassemia intermedia patients with normal subjects by means of echocardiography. materials and methods: this was a case-control study performed on 22 patients affected by thalassemia interm...

background: every year, eating, exercise, work, and travel patterns change during the holidays and these behavioral changes at a larger scale may cause death due to cardiovascular disease (cvd). considering the importance of cvd, the present study was conducted for the first time in iran to determine the differences in the ratio of deaths due to cvd on holidays and working days. materials and m...

Background: Sepsis is regarded as a critical clinical status in neonates. Since blood culture is a time-consuming method, the present study was conducted to investigate the serum level of Ferritin, Procalcitonin, and CRP in the peripheral blood of term neonates suspected with sepsis to have a quicker diagnosis for the disease. Methods: In the pres...