This 30-year-old male patient attended the emergency department because of dizziness accompanied by selfassessed regular pulse rates of 30–40 bpm. Physical examination was normal but cardiac auscultation revealed frequent premature beats. A subsequent 12-lead ECG documented the arrhythmia (Fig. 1). Similar episodes had occurred 12 months ago but thorough cardiac evaluation, including echocardio...

background: iran is one of the countries located on “the thalassemia belt” with a significant annual number of thalassemia new births. given the importance of thalassemia prevention, a program to this effect was approved in iran in 1995. screening of carrier couples and prenatal diagnosis were the two main elements of this program. in the present study, the authors have tried to address the imp...

this research was carried out to evaluate the effects of some morphophysiological traits on white sugar yield of 10 commercial sugar beet (beta vulgaris l.) varieties. all experiments were conducted in four important sugar beet growing areas in iran, i.e. moghan, khoy, karaj and zarghan in 2006 and 2007. the experiment was arranged as a randomized complete block design with three replications i...

changes of hydrodynamic parameters in microchannel branches affect the suspended biological samples in blood. to prevent denaturation and hemolysis, we have numerically investigated the effect of divergence angle on shear rate and velocity at branch entrance (discharge rate), under electroosmotic flow. in such flow, hydrodynamic properties are also affected by zeta potential at the microchannel...