Background: Severe fear of childbirth (FOC) is the most important cause of elective and emergency cesarean section and results in an unpleasant experience among women. Implementing a psychoeducational program can promote mothers’ knowledge and reduce the FOC. Aim: the aim of this study was to determine the effect of childbirth psychoeducational program on the FOC intensity in primigravid women....

The purpose of this paper is to study the higher order asymptotic distributions of the eigenvalues associated with a class of Sturm-Liouville problem with equation of the form w??=(?2f(x)?R(x)) (1), on [a,b, where ? is a real parameter and f(x) is a real valued function in C2(a,b which has a single zero (so called turning point) at point 0x=x and R(x) is a continuously differentiable function. ...

artificial neural networks (anns) are computer techniques that attempt to simulate the functionality and decision-making processes of the human brain. in the past few decades, artificial neural networks (anns) have been extensively used in a wide range of engineering applications. there are only a few applications in liquid membrane process. the objective of this research was to develop artific...

some biological characteristics and population dynamic of platycephalus indicus were studied during one year from may 2011 to march 2012 in the coastal waters of bandar abbas. a total of 1106 samples were collected. also, each month 35 fish was choosen and transferred to the laboratory for evaluation of spawning season.the ages of 279 specimens were determined by sectioned otoliths. the ages of...

Let denote the unit circle in the complex plane. Given a function , one uses t usual (harmonic) Poisson kernel for the unit disk to define the Poisson integral of , namely . Here we consider the biharmonic Poisson kernel for the unit disk to define the notion of -integral of a given function ; this associated biharmonic function will be denoted by . We then consider the dilations ...

ferula gumosa  boiss is one of the natural plants of iran whose exudates (barijeh) can be used in food industry. in the present study the properties of the gum extracted from tubers of ferula gumosa were examined. for this purpose, gum was extracted from crude exudates by alcoholic extraction with 90% (v/v) ethanol. the purity of gum was relatively high, and it was composed mostly of polysaccha...

The relationship between haematological variables and body weight (W) is studied in the American plaice. Haematocrit, haemoglobin concentration, and cell volume and numbers are directly correlated with W, indicating that small fish have low blood oxygen solubility (alphaBO2) in spite of a high weight specific oxygen consumption (VO2/W). Examination of analytical models of the branchial apparatu...

PURPOSE To measure the angular relationships of distal femoral rotational axes in 100 normal Indian knees. METHODS 42 men and 8 women aged 26 to 40 (mean, 31) years, with 100 normal non-arthritic knees were recruited. Anatomic landmarks were measured using computed tomography. They included the posterior condylar axis, the transepicondylar axis, the anteroposterior axis (Whiteside's line), th...

PURPOSE To determine the reliability of a 30-s sprint cycle test on the Wattbike cycle ergometer. METHODS Over 3 consecutive weeks, 11 highly trained cyclists (mean ± SD; age 31 ± 6 y, mass 74.6 ± 10.6 kg, height 180.5 ± 8.1cm) completed four 30-s maximal sprints on a Wattbike ergometer after a standardized warm-up. The sprint test implemented a "rolling start" that consisted of a 60-s preloa...