After disasters, one of the main challenges confronting authorities is site selection for reconstructing damaged structures. Experiences indicate that appropriate policies in site-selection could greatly influence on reconstruction success and residents' satisfaction. Meanwhile, in literature related to post disaster reconstruction, avoiding from relocating settlements is generally emphasize...

Traumatic injuries of ear range from simple lacerations to complex avulsions and crush injuries. The complicating factors involved are cartilage involvement, poor vascularity of the region and need for high cosmetic satisfaction. Various techniques have been described for reconstruction of earlobe after traumatic injuries. Here, we describe the reconstruction of a partially avulsed pinna using ...

Background & aim: Dietary patterns have dramatically changed in all age groups, especially the teenagers in the Iranian population. It was needed to identify the prevalence of dietary patterns and its determinants in this age group. Health behavior is one factor that influence dietary patterns and self-efficacy is a strong factor for behavior improvement. Therefore, th...

Objective(s): The latest single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)/computed tomography (CT) reconstruction system, referred to as xSPECT Bone™, is a context-specific reconstruction system utilizing tissue segmentation information from CT data, which is called a zone map. The aim of this study was to evaluate theeffects of zone-map enhancement incorporated into the ordered-subset conjug...

We present in this work a comparison among four algorithms for transmission tomography. The algorithms are based on the formalism of POCS (Projection onto Convex Sets): ART (Algebraic Reconstruction Technique), SIRT (Simultaneous Iterative Reconstruction Technique), sequential POCS and parallel POCS. We found that the use of adequate a priori knowledge about the solutions, expressed by convex s...

background: dietary approaches to stop hypertension (dash) eating plan is a healthy dietary pattern. our object is to review surveys in the field of major components of dash diet and different kinds of cancers. materials and methods: our search result from pubmed search engine recruited to find related articles. results: adherence to the dash diet components was significantly related to lower p...

patients and methods in this study, 250 high school students in shiraz were selected using random cluster sampling. the samples were analyzed using the food frequency questionnaire (ffq) and the general health questionnaire (ghq-28). results according to the findings, parental mental health explains 22% of the variance in children’s mental health, so that in simultaneous regression, physical di...

background: stroke is a leading cause of death. current therapeutic strategies have been unsuccessful. several studies have reported benefits on reducing stroke risk and improving the poststroke associated functional declines in patients who ate foods rich in fruits and vegetables. their potential protective effects may be due to their antioxidants, calcium, potassium, riboflavine, peridoxin, r...

background sleep habits and total sleep duration are essential factors for healthy growth and development of children. there is evidence showing that eating time and quantity as well as proportion of foods macronutrients affect the sleep quality. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the sleep habits of preschool children in qazvin and the role of calorie, macronutrients and caffe...