recent years have witnessed the rise of populism and populist leaders, movements and policies in many pluralist liberal democracies, with brexit and the election of trump the two most recent high profile examples of this backlash against established political elites and the institutions that support them. this new populism is underpinned by a post-truth politics which is using social media as a...

objectives: the main disadvantage of fiber posts is their low bond strength to root canal wall. the aim of the present study was to assess the effect of different root canal post space treatments on push-out bond strength of fiber posts to root dentin. materials and methods: after post space preparation in 40 endodontically treated human premolars, the teeth were randomly divided into four expe...

objective: those veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) experience a low quality of life. this study investigated how the quality of life of warfare victims with ptsd was influenced by mindfulness training (mt) method: this study followed a randomized controlled trial and included a pre-test, post-test and delayed post- and was conducted in 2012 at shahid rajaee hospital ...

post-operative pain and its management remains one of the most important issues in the field of surgery and health care system. on the other hand, opioid drug abuse has a large prevalence in iran. formalin test has been used as a method for assessing pain and analgesia in rats. in the present study, the post-operative pain in morphine addicted rats was compared with that of non-addicted ones us...

abstract background: hypovitaminosis d has been associated with a series of cardiovascular risk factors, such as hypertension, metabolic disorders, obesity, peripheral artery disease, coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, heart failure and stroke. objective: to assess the effect of oral vitamin d3 on cardiovascular risk factors in post-menopausal women with vitamin d insufficiency. ma...

introduction rabies is a fatal disease and has a threatening risk for the public health. immunosuppression is related to a wide variety of diseases. it is recommended that immunosuppressed patients receive the full post-exposure vaccination, concerning that the immune response may be inadequate. the aim of this study is to determine the level of rabies neutralizing antibody in immunosuppressed ...

objective(s):oct4 is a transcription factor required for pluripotency during early embryogenesis and the maintenance of identity of embryonic stem cells and pluripotent cells. therefore, the effective expression regulation of this gene is highly critical. utr regions are of great significance to gene regulation. in this study, we aimed to investigate the potential regulatory role played by 5´ut...

objective: numerous iranian veterans who took part in iraq-iran war have developed post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd). several studies demonstrated changes in serum lipid concentrations in chronic ptsd (cptsd) patients. the purpose of this study was to assess serum lipid concentrations in soldiers with cptsd and compare it with serum lipid concentrations in patients with chronic mdd (cmdd). ...

the main goal of this report was to share with clinicians an atypical presentation of pulmonary thromboembolism (pte) in a young male`s post-appendectomy, whom he had no significant predisposing factors for such disease. the case also introduced for re-examining the challenges of pte clinical manifestations which may mimic other differential diagnosis. pte is an abrupt blockage of the pulmonary...

This paper investigates the ex post implementation of a social choice set with two agents. A social choice set F is ex post imple-mentable with two agents if F satises the conditions of ex post incentive compatibility (EPIC) and ex post monotonicity (EM) in an environment that is economic and has a bad outcome. Furthermore, if F is a social choice function, (EPIC), (EM), and an economic environ...