201 Modern society has placed a high premium on good health, a lean body, and comeliness. As a nation we eat better, exercise more, and seek a healthier lifestyle to achieve physical well being. A national consensus seems to exist that a well-proportioned body is a thing of beauty. It is no wonder, therefore, that obesity, a caricature of the beautiful body, has been responsible for ridicule an...

It is necessary to control the profile of abrasive-blasted metal surfaces to a degree. But it is not necessary to maintain an exact profile on all surfaces as long as the profile falls within an acceptable range. The acceptable range is usually determined by the type of coating and total dry film thickness (dft) being applied. Generally, the profile should be 20 percent to 25 percent of the tot...

BACKGROUND In 2002 the Department of Health published a list of 20 indicators to judge the performance of the 302 primary care organisations (PCOs) in England during 2001-2002. General practitioners (GPs) have expressed doubts about the relevance, applicability and evidence base of these indicators for actual practice. AIMS To fashion NHS performance indicators to be acceptable and relevant t...

Background: Hospital accreditation is a systematic external evaluation of a hospital’s structures, processes and results by an independent professional accreditation body using pre-established optimum standards. This study aimed to evaluate the hospital accreditation system. Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out between November 2015 and February 2016 using a ques...

The kappa statistic is frequently used to test interrater reliability. The importance of rater reliability lies in the fact that it represents the extent to which the data collected in the study are correct representations of the variables measured. Measurement of the extent to which data collectors (raters) assign the same score to the same variable is called interrater reliability. While ther...

through this article, the distribution of air pollutants in tehran have been simulated based on wind patterns with and without the presence of synoptic by tapm (a meso-scale model). the simulation covers three horizontal resolution domains 30, 15 and 5 kilometers. the pollutants chosen for this are co and pm10 and wind data is 10 meter height level. the result has shown that the model simulated...

Diced rib cartilage is an acceptable option in severe nasal deformities. We present our preliminary experience in KAMC in nasal septoplasties using the autologous diced costal cartilage. This is a retrospective study of the 22 cases who needed the autologous diced costal cartilage in our centre in 4 years. All our patients needed autologous diced rib cartilages. Twelve were wrapped with tempora...