Early determination of pregnancy viability is essential for women at risk for experiencing ectopic pregnancy or spontaneous abortion. Several markers of pregnancy viability have been identified including serial human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) monitoring and sonography, in addition to several less commonly available biochemical markers. An ideal test would be readily available, inexpensive an...

this article tries to study the relationship between “quality of work life” and “job satisfaction” among the employees of the area 3 local branches of bank melat in tehran. as far as the purpose is concerned, this study is an applicable research while from the research methodology point of view, it is descriptive survey. statistical population of the research covers of all the 670 employees of ...

In the present study, two investigations were conducted at a communication center, to examine white-collar workers' hemodynamic responses during working hours. In investigation I, hemodynamic responses were measured on a working day; and in investigation II, cardiovascular responses were verified on both working and non-working days. In investigation I, blood pressure, cardiac output, heart rat...

this study was conducted to determine the prevalence of pe in patients with v/q scans interpreted as representing a very low probability (vlp) of pe (1-3 small segmental perfusion defects with a normal chest radiograph). an analysis of the entire data set obtained during the pioped study was performed. of the total of 1,359 patients in whom the presence or absence of pe was confirmed, 80 (6%) p...

BACKGROUND Estimates of the prevalence of adherence to physical activity guidelines in the population are generally the result of averaging individual probability of adherence based on the number of days people meet the guidelines and the number of days they are assessed. Given this number of active and inactive days (days assessed minus days active), the conditional probability of meeting the ...

introduction: olibanum improves memory in different models of learning. however, the effect of olibanum on models of alzheimer’s disease has been less studied. in the present study, the effect of olibanum on memory in normal rats and in a rat model of alzheimer disease induced by intracerebroventricular injections of streptozotocin was evaluated. methods: rats received an aqueous extract of oli...

in 2007, research was carried out to determine the type and amount of asbestos fibers in a croatian factory with a long history of making asbestos-containing products.since the 1970s, asbestos fibres have been considered carcinogenic in humans i.e as a known cancer-causing agent. in the environment, asbestos fibres are inactive and naturally resist biodegradation. in time, fibres can only be gr...