Background: Burn is one of the public health problems, especially in low-income and middle-income countries, and this problem is far more important for pregnant women and their fetus. There was no a systematic study to comprehensively review the epidemiology of Maternal and Fetal`s Burn inIran, this study was conducted for this purpose. Materials and Methods: In this systematic review and meta...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Consistent abiotic factors can affect directional selection; cyclones are abiotic phenomena with near-discrete geographic limits. The current study investigates selective pressure of cyclones on plants at the species level, testing for possible natural selection. METHODS New World Arecaceae (palms) are used as a model system, as plants with monopodial, unbranched arboresce...

Being a highly industrialized country with one of the highest male lung cancer mortality rates in Europe, Belgium is an interesting study area for lung cancer research. This study investigates geographical patterns in lung cancer mortality in Belgium. More specifically it probes into the contribution of individual as well as area-level characteristics to (sub-district patterns in) lung cancer m...

BACKGROUND Studies finding higher mortality rates for patients admitted to hospital at weekends rely on routine administrative data to adjust for risk of death, but these data may not adequately capture severity of illness. We examined how rates of patient arrival at accident and emergency (A&E) departments by ambulance-a marker of illness severity-were associated with in-hospital mortality by ...

BACKGROUND Estimates of excess mortality associated with body mass index (BMI; in kg/m(2)) have been calculated for the US population. OBJECTIVE The objective of this article is to compare the excess mortality associated with BMI levels to the excess mortality associated with other anthropometric variables. DESIGN For the 1988-1994 Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, est...

here we present our experimental results in synthesizing au-cu nano-particles with tunable localized surface plasmon resonance frequency through wet-chemical at temperature room. the reaction is performed in the presence of ascorbic acid as a reducing agent and polyvinyl pyrrolidone as capping agent via four different procedures: (1) mixture of 90% haucl4 and 10% cuso4.5h2o precursors, (2) mixt...

objectives: the percentage of vowel correct (pvc) is one of the indices in the development of articulation and phonological skills in children that can be measured with speech samples that could be extracted from the single word or connected speech tests. the aim of this study is to introduce the pvc scale in persian speaking children and investigate its validity and reliability. methods: this ...

this experiment was carried out at the college of agriculture university of salahaddin erbil. to study the effect of water supplementation with propolis on local quail performance, some physiological and immunological characteristics at 42 days old. a total of one thousand fifty (1050) hatched local quail eggs that obtained from the project of al-rashedia for agriculture researches center in mo...

Objective: This study aimed to determine the incidence of neonatal mortality percentage in NICUs Giza Governorate hospitals for early prediction disease.

To test how practice interruptions affect worker productivity, we estimate how temporal breaks affect surgeons' performance of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Examining 188 surgeons who performed 56,315 CABG surgeries in Pennsylvania between 2006 and 2010, we find that a surgeon's additional day away from the operating room raised patients' inpatient mortality by up to 0.067 percentage ...