background brucellosis as a zoonotic infectious disease is endemic in iran and due to the variation in clinical and laboratory findings, its diagnosis is often delayed. objectives the aim of this study was to determine clinical and laboratory aspects of the disease in khuzestan. patients and methods medical records of 81 admitted patients with a diagnosis of brucellosis were reviewed. the study...

this is a semi-experimental survey which has been performed in order to identify the effect of fentanyle   administration through mouth mucus, on the vital signs and the time of the induction of anesthesia of patients who,   undergoing of elective surgery, are given general anesthesia in one of the hospitals affiliated to iran medic al   sciences university.   in this survey • 80 patients, in t...

conclusions the study showed that preparation package was effective in decreasing sbp and dbp, as well as heart rate. therefore, using multimodal comprehensive preparation packages, such as the package used in the present report, is suggested. results from the total number of 66 patients, the 63.3% were male and married. no significant differences were observed between the mean of sbp and dbp a...

abstract [1]   background and objective: the recent studies showed that the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and neurological soft signs in aggressive persons and murderers are more than general populations. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of prisoners’ neurological soft signs (nss) and its association with crime subgroups in rudsar prison. methods: in a cross sectional ...

This study of The Hunger Artist explores how signs and symbols play a significant role in bringing the structured imagination of Kafka’s psyche and signification process on the surface of the narrative. As various signs encode different representations of experiences and the source of these representations is not only the subconscious and unconscious selves of the author and reader but also the...

Model mapping faces many challenging tasks and contemporary work seems to focus on computational issues. As a result it seems to lack an overarching theoretical framework whereby all aspects of model mapping can be investigated systematically. We maintain that the principles of semiotics may well provide theoretical foundations for developing such a framework. In this chapter we report our prel...

for hearing us out as we ventured into territory far more familiar to him than it was to us and helping us out with many valuable suggestions and guideposts. Summary: This paper examines the semiotic nature of the hypertext document from two points of view, both of which are based on Roland Barthes' ELEMENTS OF SEMIOLOGY. From the more conventional point of view, the hypertext document is discu...

This paper will briefly present a semiotic approach to instrument interfaces based on a conceptual analysis of displayand control-components and their compositional semantics. Displayand control-components can be considered as prototypical objects that are themselves constructed from combinations of more elementary signs expressed in some combination of media. Different types of signs (or “repr...