background and objective: gastroenteritis is one of the most important diseases in the world. this disease is more critical among children, people with immune deficiency and the sufferers from mal-nutrition. shigella spp. as the most important cause of dysentery, causes much mortality around the world. increasing antibiotic resistance is one of the major health problems. this research aimed to ...

background: malaria is one of the most important parasitic diseases in iran. due to importantce of drug policy, monitoring of chloroquine therapeutic efficacy in uncomplicated falciparum cases was carried out in south and south-east of iran in 2003. materials and methods: this discriptive study was carried out in five centers of sistan-baluchestan, hormozgan and kerman provinces (south and sout...

Young adults with a history of specific language impairment (SLI) differ from reading-impaired (dyslexic) individuals in terms of limited vocabulary and poor verbal short-term memory. Phonological short-term memory has been shown to play a significant role in learning new words. We investigated the neural signatures of auditory word recognition and word repetition in young adults with SLI, dysl...

The priming of a stimulus by another has become an important tool for exploring the neural underpinnings of conceptual representations. However, priming effects can derive from many different types of relationships and it is important to distinguish between them in order to be able to develop theoretical accounts of the representation of conceptual knowledge. While it is well known that repetit...

Inthis paper, wedescribeindetail theperformanceon avariety of tests of language processing of a patient (PS) who shows a strong effect of imageability in auditory repetition. Unlike deep dysphasic patients (e.g. Franklin, Howard, & Patterson, 1994, 1995; Valdois, Carbonnel, David, Rousset, & Pellat, 1995), who also show effects of imageability, PS does not make semantic errors in auditory repet...

â â â â â  graphic description: â  the mystery of ibn khafaja's success in description â  â ali bagher taheriniya * â javad ranjbar ** â  â  â abstractâ ibn khafaja is one of the poets and men of letters in spain. he is titled to sanobari of spain. he is one of the masters of description. hence, the analysis of successful techniques he has used in the descriptive art could illuminate the w...

background : nasopharyngeal carcinoma (npc) is known as a highly distinct kind of head and neck cancer. this distinction is due to its clinical presentation, epidemiology, outcome, and treatment. there have not been any reports of epidemiological analysis of npc in iran. the aim of this study is to evaluate the incidence rates and trends of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in the iranian population dur...

introduction: appropriate thyroid hormone (th) levels are essential during the critical period of brain development, which is associated with the growth of axons and dendrites and synapse formation. in rats, oral motor circuits begin to reach to their adult pattern around 3 weeks after birth, the period in which alteration from sucking to biting and chewing occurs (weaning time). trigeminal mot...

introduction: olive leaf contains anti-inflammatory and cox-2 inhibitor compounds. considering the role of the cox enzyme in seizures, this research was performed to assess the effects of this extract in treatment of seizures induced by ptz. methods: in this research, male wistar rats (200±20 g) were injected intra-cerebroventricularly with 1 μl saline or olive leaf extract (125 μg, 250 μg and ...

objective: the study of the relationship between religious beliefs performance and life satisfaction among the elderly in sabzavar city. materials & methods: the data gathered about religious beliefs performance and also life satisfaction among the elderly by survey research and questionnaires in representative sample. the size of sample was 301old persons and the technique of sampling was clus...