Background & Aims: Due to many professional concerns such as shift stress and job injuries in nursing, male nurses do not pay much attention their health-promoting lifestyle. the above factors, work-life quality decreases leads dissatisfaction related consequences stress, anxiety, depression. This study aimed determine relationship between a lifestyle satisfaction nurses. Materials Methods:...

introduction: children learn to communicate by hearing sounds. if there is hearing loss, the cognitive and speaking abilities and language learning will deteriorate. early detection and intervention are important factors in the successful treatment of hearing loss in children. hearing loss (hl) is divided into two main groups: conductive hearing loss (chl) and sensorineural hearing loss (snhl),...

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a parasitic infection prevalent in many areas. The parasitic agent is usually transmitted by Phlebotomous sp. Lip leishmaniasis is a type of cutaneous leishmaniasis, which has rarely been reported. In a retrospective study performed in Ahwaz, center of Khuzestan province, southwest of Iran, 2861 patients were detected during 1986-1996. Seventeen of these patient...

Heavy metal pollution dispersion simulation in rivers and predicting spatial and temporal variations of pollutants can be used to determine the precise place and to schedule water withdrawal time for drinking, agriculture, aquaculture and ecosystem studies. To study the movement of heavy metal pollution through Karoon flow model, MIKE 11 was employed fpr simulation of the flow model of Karoon R...

Introduction: Medical tourism is the travel of patients to outside the area of life to benefit from hospitals and medical services or some particular treatment or periodic test of physical conditions. This study has been done with the purpose of formulating a strategic plan of medical tourism development of Ahwaz city. Methods: The method of this research...

Abstract Artificial neural networks are a tool for modeling of nonlinear systems in various engineering fields. These effective tools the systems. Each artificial network includes an input layer, output layer between which there one or some hidden layers. In each several processing elements neurons. The neurons independent variables understudy issue, and its dependent variables. system, through...

OBJECTIVE Thyroid hormones affect gastric acid secretion. As the mechanism of this effect has not been fully known, in this experimental study the isolated gastric acid secretion of hypothyroid and hyperthyroid rats were compared with control group by the administration of different doses of pentagastrin, histamine and carbachol as gastric acid secretion stimulators. METHODS This study was ca...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of scoliosis in school-going children of different age groups for correct diagnosis and treatment of scoliosis. METHODS In 2004, we screened 1400 children from secondary schools in Ahwaz City, Southwestern Iran, for scoliosis. We carried out random sampling and used the necessary equipment for measurement and examination. RESULTS Our results indicate th...