regarding the need for scientific development and achievement our national goals, it is clear that international cooperation has the main role in this way. here is a report on what we have done during past almost 10 years (2001-2011) in the field of international medical research activities in deputy ministry for research & technology, ministry of health, iran. our effort was focused to identif...

Cluster analysis in a large dataset is an interesting challenge in many fields of Science and Engineering. One important clustering approach is hierarchical clustering, which outputs hierarchical (nested) structures of a given dataset. The single-link is a distance-based hierarchical clustering method, which can find non-convex (arbitrary)-shaped clusters in a dataset. However, this method cann...

diagnosing and assessing child abuse is a critical and difficult process in clinical psychology, because this phenomenon has several negative behavioral and psychological consequences on victims. the aim of this research is to create a scale for assessing child abuse and neglect. through a multiclustral sampling, 3042 secondary school students (boys and girls) were selected to fill (1) a list o...

Background: Studying and evolution of medical sciences is so important to draw up the future path with a view to per capita of science production. The purpose of this study was to clarify the status and position of Iran in science production and compare it with four competitor countries of the region for 2025. Methods: This research is conducted using the scientometric method our ranked citati...

introduction: nowadays the use of music therapy for neurological disorders in developed countries is widely emphasized. despite this, there is little scientific evidence regarding the use of this method for the treatment of iranian patients with stroke. case report: since iranian patients are more familiar with persian music,this study was performed to describe the effects of listening to the p...

This teaching cases study describes the development and implementation of an enterprise reporting system in a major Australian law firm. The dominant view in professional practice is that business intelligence systems like the one reported in this case should be provided data by an enterprise data warehouse. The case is particularly interesting because the reporting system was not based on a da...

cystic hygroma is a well-recognized lesion in paediatric patients but it is very rare in adults. we report here a case of cervical cystic hygroma in a 45 yr old male. the reasons to present this case are 1) its rarity in adults 2) unusual age of presentation 3) simulates various benign and malignant lesions at this site 4) is a diagnostic challenge and 5) role of histology for definitive postop...

case reports are considered as the lowest level of evidence while at the same time they are frontiers of evidence collection. case reports are professional stories about novel medical events and will worth publication only if they possess complexity, proper data collection, justified diagnosis, and legitimate intervention as well as appropriate language, punctuation, and syntax. a case report m...