objective: to translate verona service satisfaction scale-32 (vsss-32) to persian, to adapt it for iranian culture and to investigate the performance characteristics of the persian version intended to measure patient satisfaction with psychiatric care. method: the vsss-32 was translated to persian using an elaborated methodology according to world health organization guideline. in addition, und...

BACKGROUND The factor V Leiden (FVL) mutation has been shown to be the most frequent cause of hereditary thrombophilia. The prevalence of the mutation in patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) and portal vein thrombosis (PVT) has not been fully elucidated. AIMS To investigate the association between the FVL mutation and BCS and PVT. PATIENTS Thirty patients with BCS, 32 patients with PVT,...

Background and Objective:
 Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is caused by mutations in dystrophin gene that include deletion, duplication small mutations. Introduction to newer drug therapies DMD based on the type of mutation. The objective this study was assess distribution percentage different among patients.
 Methods:
 This retrospective cross-sectional conducted Pediatric Neurology...

This paper explores the potential of executables for covert communication. Three techniques for the embedding of secret information are presented. Possible attacks on the stealthiness of these techniques are identified and countered. The presented concepts are implemented and evaluated for the IA32 architecture, for which we obtain an encoding rate of 1/27 before countermeasures and 1/89 after ...

This paper presents new circuit configurations for a more robust and efficient form of self-resetting CMOS (SRCMOS). Prior structures for SRCMOS have very high performance but are difficult to design and are not robust over process, temperature and voltage variations. The new techniques replace delay chains with logical circuits that will create pulses at the correct times, independent of opera...

INTRODUCTION Mutations in podocin (NPHS2) gene have the key role in the pathogenesis of steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome (SRNS) in children, but data is scarce regarding their prevalence and natural course among different all ethnic groups. This study was aimed to demonstrate the spectrum of NPHS2 mutations in children with SRNS and to compare the clinical course of disease in patients with...

The most common event responsible for resistance to first- and second-generation (1st and 2nd) epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) is acquisition of T790M mutation. We examined whether T790M is related to clinicopathologic or prognostic factors in patients with relapse of EGFR mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after treatment with 1st or 2nd EGFR-TKIs...