background: the purpose of this study is to determine association between personal, family, neighborhood, and social network characteristics and perceived intimacy in the neighborhood by the women. methods: in this cross‑sectional study, we applied a two‑stage sampling method to choose a representative sample of 150 married women and housewives, aged 15 to 49 years, who had education between si...

background: the infants, hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit (nicu), engage with problems from admission to discharge, exploring of which ensures their safe transition. the purpose of this study was to identify the factors that influence infant’s transition from the nicu to home. materials and methods: a qualitative study was used for identifying the factors that affect infant’s tr...

abstract background: the university student health surveillance system can play a key role in the health promotion of the educated class of the society. this can be done through collecting information related to health and using it for screening and prevention of disease. hence, this article will be based on the necessity of existence of such system. materials and methods: we used interview and...

Secondary amyloidosis (AA) is a severe complication of progressed Crohn’s disease (CD) for which no effective treatment exists. We present the exceptional case of a 33 year-old male with moderate renal failure and proteinuria, who was simultaneously diagnosed with AA amyloid nephropathy and oligosymptomatic CD. He was treated with infliximab at 5mg/kg/8 weeks for 4 years, azathioprine at ...

BACKGROUND Incorrect interpretations of p values affect professionals’ decisions and jeopardize the quality of psychological interventions and the accumulation of valid scientific knowledge. This study analyzes the errors made by Spanish academic psychologists in interpreting p values. METHOD We surveyed academic psychologists about their interpretations of p values. The sample is compo...

Eosinophilic cystitis is a rare inflammatory disease with controversial aetiology and treatment. We report the case of a 61-year-old man presented with lower quadrant abdominal pain and lower urinary tract symptoms, non responsive to antibiotics and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs. Physical examination was substantially negative, such as laboratory parameters, microscopic, bacteriological a...

This study investigated the factors, such as students’ foreign language enjoyment, their classroom anxiety, teacher’s choice (English-only instruction versus English with limited legitimate Japanese support), and demographics that affect improvement in proficiency EFL communicative classes. Ninety-three college students Japan participated this research, for which they comple...