background and purpose: social support is considered as a facilitator of health behaviors in women. this study aimed to evaluate and compare the status of social support and its associated dimensions in pregnant and non-pregnant women. methods: this analytical study was conducted on 310 pregnant and non-pregnant women referring to the health-care centers of zarqan city in shiraz, iran in 2011. ...

Abused children are said to retain 'infantile body proportions'. The presenting height, sitting height, and leg length standard deviation scores of 91 victims have been calculated from data derived from a study of local inner city schoolchildren. In the study population 31/91 (34%) were significantly short and all but two of these had relatively shorter legs than backs, this limb disproportion ...

In the high performance integrated circuits phenomena like crosstalk, IR drops, electromigration and ground bounce are assuming increasing proportions because of the growing complexity in ultra deep submicron designs: their consequences are assuming increasing dimensions compromising circuits functionality and not only their performances. This paper suggests a methodology to evaluate and to pre...

Developing a case-mix methodology for home health services is more difficult than developing one for hospitalization and acute health services, because the determinants of need for home health care are more complex and because of the difficulty in defining episodes of care. To evaluate home health service case mix, a multivariate grouping methodology was applied to records from the 1982 Nationa...

Background & Aims: The orbital cavity is an important anatomic structure in the face. It is in close connection with the skull, paranasal sinuses, and the nose. Precise knowledge of the orbital cavity dimensions can be helpful in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases associated with the orbital cavity. Due to the lack of adequate research on orbital size in Iran and the city of Kerman, the ai...

Recently, a propositional logic modeling of analogical proportions, i.e., statements of the form “A is to B as C is to D”, has been proposed, and has then led to introduce new related proportions in a general setting. This framework is well-suited for analogical reasoning and classification tasks about situations described by means of Boolean properties. There is a clear need for extending this...