Overintensification and subsidies have long made American commodity farmers the enemy of conservationists. Yet, environmental conditions are improving in the Mississippi Delta where farmer-based groups, water management districts and conservation organizations have improved environmental quality and redefined the role of agriculture in environmental preservation. This work is all the more remar...

Forensic odontologists play an important role locally and nationally in assisting in the identification of the victims of mass fatality incidents, whether natural or human-made. With the recent passage of legislation by Congress identifying dentists as a first-responder resource, knowledge of their expanding role in disaster response is particularly important. The purpose of this article is to ...

the purpose of this research was to study the role of non-governmental organization inpreserving of urban green areas in the city of tehran. this is a descriptive-correlationresearch method. population of this study was 120 active members of two non-governmentalorganizations in tehran. after distributing the questionnaires, 62 questionnaires werereturned. content and face validity of the instru...

This paper analyses the efficiency of a six-month athletics treatment within physical education classes in the first form of elementary school and influence of this treatment on morphological characteristics. For this purpose, the sample of 179 male pupils age 7 was submitted to 14 anthropometric measures twice within a period of 6 months. An analysis of changes in the applied anthropometric me...

background various researchers have shown that the health level, performance status, and quality of life (qol) are often less than expected especially in hemodialysis (hd) patients. objectives this study aimed to determine the effect of the two methods of educational programs on health- related qol (hrqol) in iranian hd patients. patients and methods in this quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest...

INTRODUCTION Due to disabilities caused by the disease and the requirement of dialysis, end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is frequently comorbid with psychiatric disorders, adversely affects quality of life, and causes significant sexual dysfunction (SD). We aimed to investigate the psychiatric comorbidity, quality of life, depression and anxiety levels, and SD in ESRD patients undergoing hemodial...

background: ongoing measurement of quality of life especially in patients with chronic diseases, maybe the basis of health care evaluation. this study aimed to assess and identify factors affecting quality of life in hemodialysis patients in kermanshah city. methods: this is a cross sectional study carried on 98 cases of hemodialysis patients referred to two of teaching hospitals (imam khomeini...