Background and aim: The goal of this study was to investigate the association between omentin-1 and different biochemical and anthropometric parameters in obese and non-obese, also in patients with metabolic syndrome compared to the healthy control group. Methods: A total of 81 women were included in the current case-control study. Based on their BMI they were divided into obese and non-obese g...

In June 1995, the WHO Regional Office for Europe established a Working Group on Health Promotion Evaluation in cooperation with three government agencies: • the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States • Health Canada • Health Education Authority, United Kingdom. The Working Group had three objectives: • to provide guidance to policy-makers and practitioners to foster the use o...

Predicting the expansion of an urban boundary using spatial logistic regression and hybrid raster–vector routines with remote sensing and GIS Amin Tayyebi, Phillips Christian Perry & Amir Hossein Tayyebi a University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin Energy Institute, Madison, WI, USA b Department of Natural Resources, New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Cornell University, Itha...

COURSE IN THE AREA OF HEALTH PROMOTION Mahrokh Kheshvari, Niko Yamani, Peyman Abidi, Hossein Shahnazi. Assistant Professor, Nursing and Midwifery Research Center in nursing and midwifery school in Isfahan University of medical sciences, Isfahan, Iran; Associate Professor, Medical Education Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; Professor of Medicine; Isfahan Uni...

inv(16)(p13q22) Gbanding (left) Courtesy Jean-Luc Lai and Alain Vanderhaegen; Rbanding center bottom: Courtesy Christiane Charrin, center top and FISH (top right) -Courtesy Pascale Cornillet-Lefebvre and Stephanie Struski; FISH (bottom right) Courtesy Hossein Mossafa; commercial FISH probes, split in the inv(16). t(16;16)(p13;q22) G-banding Courtesy Diane H. Norback, Eric B. Johnson, and Sara M...

Network planning methods for project planning and scheduling have been applied for more than fifty years including CPM, PDM, PERT and GERT (Fondahl, �96�; Fulkerson, �96�; Kelley & Walker, �959; PMI, ���6; Pritsker, �966), which can be widely applied to project planning fromareas as diverse as construction and R&D. However, these network planning methods are not very appropriate in cases where ...

Probabilistic temporal planning attempts to find good policies for acting in domains with concurrent durative tasks, multiple uncertain outcomes, and limited resources. These domains are typically modelled as Markov decision problems and solved using dynamic programming methods. This paper demonstrates the application of reinforcement learning — in the form of a policy-gradient method — to thes...

Hossein EBRAHIMI*, Shaban RAHIMI, Pejvak KHAKI, Jesse L. GRIMES, Sophia KATHARIOU Department of Poultry Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Department of Microbiology and Leptospira Reference Laboratory, Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, Karaj, Iran Prestage Department of Poultry Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina Sta...

Trauma Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran, 1Occupational Sleep Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 2Department of Occupational Medicine, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran, 3Center for Research on Occupational Diseases, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Correspondence to: Dr. Amir Hos...