introduction: the evaluation of assessment instruments through activity of daily living (adl) in heart disease is done for early intervention. the aim of this study is to investigate the proper instrument for assessing adl in a cardiac patient. material and methods: this study was a narrative review of instruments of screening and assessing adl in heart disease. a search was conducted using dat...

background: today, renal disease is one of the major worldwide health problems. it has a high prevalence, which increases 8% annually. incidence of renal disease and treatment techniques can affect the quality of life, health status and social roles of patients. the aim of the current study was to determine the quality of life of dialysis and kidney transplant patients and compare it to healthy...

introduction: this paper used generalized gamma (gg) distribution to find the predictive factors of overall survival (os) after haematopoietic stem cell transplant (hsct) in acute myeloid  leukemia patients. methods: discrimination among the exponential, weibull, gg, log-logistic, and lognormal distributions was done using maximum likelihood and akaike information criteria. results: the 5-year ...

age and tooth loss are expected to have a complex relationship with oral health-related quality of life. so the purpose of this study was to explain the impact of age and tooth loss on oral health-related quality of life using the short form 14-item oral health impact profile (ohip-14) among two population samples of gujarat and rajasthan.a cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey was conduct...

botulism is a zoonotic disease which has a worldwide distribution . the source of infection in livestock is usually carcasses of birds, domestic and wild animals . rotten carcasses of animals are contaminated by clostridium botulinum .the toxin of this bacteria leads to a fatal paralytic disease . this paper reports an outbreak of domestic animal botulism in the villages of bushehr province in ...

n the floor, " said Jackson Pollock, " I feel more at ease. I feel nearer, more a part of the painting… I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting…. akin to the… Indian sand painters of the West " (1). Immediacy to the art work is hallmark of abstract expressionism or the New York School, a revolutionary art movement that shifted the center of artistic avant...

introduction: oral lichen planus (olp) is a common mucocutanous disorder with unknown etiology. while current data suggest that oral lichen planus is a cell-mediated autoimmune disease, it might be associated to s+100, cd+4 and cd+8 cells. because of differential diagnosis of olp and oral lichenoid lesion (oll) is usually difficult this study was designed to compare any probable immunohistochem...

background: although one of the most serious mononuclear meningitis is tuberculosis and the most prevalent one is viral meningitis, but the most treatable one is brucellar meningitis. methods: in this cross sectional study we considered documents of 39 patients who have been diagnosed during 1988-2005. patients were confirmed using positive agglutination tests of serum, spinal fluid or positive...

A theory is developed that provides the sampling distribution of low frequency alleles at a single locus under the assumption that each allele is the result of a unique mutation. The numbers of copies of each allele is assumed to follow a linear birth-death process with sampling. If the population is of constant size, standard results from theory of birth-death processes show that the distribut...