The present study aims to consider the effect of 10 weeks resistance trainings on cholesterol and blood triglyceride (TG) levels of patients with having fatty liver, aged 50 to 60 in National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC). This research is practical and its plan has been done experimentally with pretest and post-test on experimental and control groups. In this study, 20 samples from 100 pat...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between locus of control with coping styles of problem-focused, excited -focused and avoidance among volleyball young men, Karaj City, Iran. The research method was correlation-descriptive that was implemented as monitoring. The population of this research was 200 volleyball young men that several teams of participating teams were chosen...

BACKGROUND The literature emphasizes the need for studies to provide reference values and equations able to predict respiratory muscle strength of Brazilian subjects at different ages and from different regions of Brazil. OBJECTIVES To develop prediction equations for maximal respiratory pressures (MRP) of Brazilian adolescents. METHOD In total, 182 healthy adolescents (98 boys and 84 girls...

Divergence date estimates are central to understand evolutionary processes and depend, in the case of molecular phylogenies, on tests of molecular clocks. Here we propose two non-parametric tests of strict and relaxed molecular clocks built upon a framework that uses the empirical cumulative distribution (ECD) of branch lengths obtained from an ensemble of Bayesian trees and well known non-para...

This paper studies design schemes for the X control chart under non-normality. Different estimators of the standard deviation are considered and the effect of the estimator on the performance of the control chart under non-normality is investigated. Two situations are distinguished. In the first situation, the effect of non-normality on the X control chart is investigated by using the control l...

OBJECTIVE To apply a fully automated method to quantify the 3D structure of the bony nasolacrimal canal (NLC) from CT scans whereby the size and main morphometric characteristics of the canal can be determined. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS 36 eyes of 18 healthy individuals. METHODS Using software designed to detect the boundaries of the NLC on CT images, 36 NLC reconstructions w...

BACKGROUND More than 1000 scientific papers have been devoted to flatfoot issue. However, a bimodal distribution of flatfoot indices in school-aged children has never been discovered. The purposes of this study were to establish a new classification of flatfoot by characteristic in frequency distribution of footprint index and to endue the classification with discrepancy in physical fitness. ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the stability of the medial aspects of the rugae in patients where rapid maxillary expansion (RME) was performed in addition to fixed appliance therapy. Nineteen subjects that met the inclusion criteria for each group were randomly selected from the archive of one orthodontist office. The RME/fixed appliances group consisted of 8 males and 11 females...

OBJECTIVE Head injury is the main cause of death among individuals younger than 45 years old. Cranial Computerized tomography (CT) is commonly used for diagnosis of head injury. Brain Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) is a peptide originally isolated from brain ventricles. The main aim of this study is to investigate BNP as an indicator of head injury among patients presenting to emergency department (...

Abstract: This paper deals with nonparametric inference for second order stochastic dominance of two random variables. If their distribution functions are unknown they have to be inferred from observed realizations. Thus, any results on stochastic dominance are in uenced by sampling errors. We establish two methods to take the sampling error into account. The rst one is based on the asymptotic ...