background: integrons are mobile genetic elements able to obtain the antibiotic resistance gene cassettes. the prevalence of integrons in the enterobacteriaceae family has been varied and played an important role in the development of the drug resistant bacteria. the present study aimed to investigate the contribution of class 2 and 3 integrons in drug resistant diarrheagenic escherichia coli s...

introduction: language teachers can help students improve their learning of english by employing different approaches and taking into consideration various learning styles of their students. this study is an attempt to reveal the effect of cooperative learning (cl) on enhancing nursing students’ english pronunciation. methods: twenty five nursing students and thirty midwifery students in yasuj ...

seventeen iranian shallot genotypes from ashtian, arak, boroujerd, dashtearjan, doshmanziari, divandareh, khomein, khansar, sepidan, siakhdarengoon, sahne, kangavar, koohrang, koohmaresorkhi, nahavand, harsin and yasouj areas were evaluated for their morphological traits. corms were collected from the mentioned regions and planted based on a complete block design. quantitative and qualitative t...

water user associations (wuas) are the main strategy in water resources management, and transferring of irrigation management to these associations is paying attention in different countries. the current study aimed to identify and analyze membership consequences in wuas. the research was descriptive and survey method was used. the population of this study consisted of all farmers in irrigation...

background: caring is the core of nursing and holistic high-quality care is considered as one of the main concerns of nursing managers. evaluation by main care recipients and assessment of their satisfaction with different levels of care is a way to determine and improve the quality of nursing care. the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the quality of nurses’ caring be...

backgrounds: anxiety and depression are found to be the major contributors to irritable bowel syndrome (ibs). the present study aimed to measure the effect of a specifically designed cognitive behavioural therapy (cbt) program on the severity of the symptoms and quality of life of patients with chronic ibs, and also define whether anxiety and depression in patients with ibs at baseline affect t...

conclusions in this study, topical application of sweet almond oil, which was not followed by any specific complications, was able to significantly reduce the uremic pruritus in hemodialysis patients; however, these findings require further studies. methods this study is a randomized clinical trial research. the study population consisted of patients referred in 2013 to the hd ward of shahid be...

background in addition to physical adaptation and psychosocial adjustment to chronic renal disease, hemodialysis (hd) patients must also adapt to dialysis therapy plan. objectives the aim of the present study was to examine the effect of roy’s adaptation model-based patient education on adaptation of hd patients. patients and methods this study is a semi-experimental research that was conducted...