background: despite the development of pediatric post-operative pain management and use of analgesic/narcotic drugs, post-operative pain remains as a common problem. some studies suggested, the most effective approach to controlling immediate post-operative pain may include a combination of drug agents and non-drug methods. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of music therapy on...

The present study sought to investigate the comprehension of Garden-Path structures by Iranian EFL learners. 50 female students of Kharazmi English Language Institute in Karaj participated in this study. All of the participants were native speakers of Persian studying in Kharazmi English language institute in Karaj, Iran. They ranged from 18 to 30 in terms of age. The participants were administ...

BACKGROUND Particulate Matter (PM) exposure is critical in Beijing due to high population density and rapid increase in vehicular traffic. PM effects on blood pressure (BP) have been investigated as a mechanism mediating cardiovascular risks, but results are still inconsistent. The purpose of our study is to determine the effects of ambient and personal PM exposure on BP. METHODS Before the 2...

abstract introduction: liposuction is a surgical procedure effective in reducing body fat, with growing application in conjunction with diet and exercise therapy in the treatment of obesity. in view of the positive effect of weight reduction on cardiovascular disease (cvd) risk factors, such as body mass index (bmi), waist circumference (wc), waist-to-hip ratio (whr), systolic and diastolic pre...

the main purpose of this study was to examine the effect of metamotivational states on self-efficacy perceptions and motor performance in dart throwing beginners in easy and difficult conditions. for this purpose, the paratelic dominance questionnaire (cook & gerkovich, 1993) was distributed among 140 male students, and 32 participants were randomly divided into two groups (16 in a telic group ...

the aim of this study was to investigate the reproducibility of natural head position (nhp) at different times of the day and to compare the reproducibility of the initial photographs with 6-month repeat photographs.the participants in this prospective study were seventy 14 to 50-year-old individuals. each participant was photographed with a digital camera twice, at three different times of the...

Two studies on the role of video on vocabulary learning were conducted in kindergarten classrooms wit h substantial numbers of children from low-income and Dual Language Learning (DLL) backgrounds. In the first study (n = 78), the effect of video viewing was compared with the effect of book reading on vocabulary learning. In the second study (n = 89), the effect of repeated viewing of video was...