The developmental health of young children is highly influenced by the socioeconomic conditions in which they are raised. How to accurately measure these conditions is a point of debate in the current literature on child development, health, and social determinants. We have evaluated four existing indices of socioeconomic status (SES) to determine the most relevant for the analysis of early chi...

discrimination between iron deficiency (ida) anemia and β-thalassemia trait (β-tt) is a time consuming and costly problem. because, they have approximate similar effects on routine blood test indices, in some cases, the complementary tests, which are expensive and time consuming, would be needed for differentiate the anemia. complete blood count (cbc) is a fast, inexpensive, and accessible medi...

BACKGROUND Sleepiness-at-the-wheel has been identified as a major cause of highway accidents. The aim of our study is identifying the candidate measures for home-based screening of sleep disordered breathing in Taiwanese bus drivers, instead of polysomnography. METHODS Overnight polysomnography accompanied with simultaneous measurements of alternative screening devices (pulse oximetry, ApneaL...

objective: to determine the effects of triage education based on emergency severity index (esi) on promoting the knowledge and performance of nurses and qualitative indices of emergency department. methods: this study was a quasi-interventional study being performed in vali asr hospital of fasa university of medical sciences during 2012. for this purpose, 50 members of staff including nurses an...

let g and h be two graphs. the corona product g o h is obtained by taking one copy of gand |v(g)| copies of h; and by joining each vertex of the i-th copy of h to the i-th vertex of g,i = 1, 2, …, |v(g)|. in this paper, we compute pi and hyper–wiener indices of the coronaproduct of graphs.

Drought is one of the major natural hazards that bring about billions of dollars in loss to the farming community around theworld each year. Drought is most often caused by a departure of precipitation from the normal amount, and agriculture is often the first sector to be affected by the onset of drought due to its dependence on water resources and soil moisture reserves during various stages ...

background and aims. childhood obesity has been associated with high refined sugar intake. the relationship between sucrose intake and development of dental caries has been established. the aim of this study was to determine the association between age-specific body mass index (bmi-for-age) and dental caries in children. materials and methods. in this cross-sectional study a total of 1003 child...

todeschini et al. have recently suggested to consider multiplicative variants of additive graphinvariants, which applied to the zagreb indices would lead to the multiplicative zagrebindices of a graph g, denoted by ( ) 1  g and ( ) 2  g , under the name first and secondmultiplicative zagreb index, respectively. these are define as  ( )21 ( ) ( )v v gg g d vand ( ) ( ) ( )( )2 g d v d v gu...