energy-based optimized design of polymer fiber-reinforced tunnel lining mohammad safi                   analysis of underwater tunnels considering strain-softening behavior in plastic zone ahmad fahimifar; hamed ghadami; masoud ahmadvand; arvin abdolmaleki                                 the effect of operational parameters on penetration rate of a tbm using artificial neural networks- a case s...

the emergence of rationalist and traditionist approaches among moslems was the result of attention to different verses of the holy quran, some denoting reasoning and some denoting devotion. these different approaches to quran led to the formation of mo'tazele and asha'arites schools among the sunnites and osuliyyun (rationalists) and traditionists among the shiites. this difference wa...

Most DNA sequencing technologies are based on the shotgun paradigm: many short reads obtained from random unknown locations in sequence. A fundamental question, Motahari et al. , (2013), is what read length and coverage depth (i.e., total number of reads) needed to guarantee reliable sequence r...

shahid motahari educational festival has annually been held to improve medical education quality in iran. the present study aims to determine the product of holding six courses of the festival from the viewpoints of medical sciences university faculty’s members. this cross-sectional study was conducted among 473 academic members of medical universities in iran. participants filled out a self-ad...

BACKGROUND Management of firework-related injuries is costly for the patient, society, and government. OBJECTIVES Evaluating effective factors yielding to such injuries may lead to better management of patients and decreased costs and morbidities. PATIENTS AND MATERIALS This retrospective cross-sectional study was performed on burn patients referred to Shahid Motahari Burns Hospital on Char...

BACKGROUND Premature myocardial infarction with life-threatening complications may become epidemic in some Asian and African countries and especially Iran. Fibrinogen is considered as one of the probable risk factors of myocardial infarction. The aim of our study was to assess fibrinogen levels as an etiology of premature myocardial infarction in young Iranian men. FINDINGS A case-control stu...

Differential Object Marking (DOM) is a prevalent phenomenon in the world’s languages in which the case marking of the object NP is determined by certain semantic factors. Notions such as “animacy”, “definiteness”, “specificity”, and “topicality” are often invoked to explain the semantic contribution of the case marker in languages with DOM. In this paper, I investigate the semantic contribution...

Seyed-Ahmad Hosseini*, MD; Mahmoud Reza Ashrafi, MD; Morteza Heidari, MD Department of Pediatrics, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Received: Sep 24, 2013; Accepted: Apr 13, 2014; First Online Available: Aug 12, 2014 A 5 year old boy was admitted due to insidious onset of fever, lethargy, malaise and oral lesions fro...