Background The menstrual hygiene education is a process for strengthening skills and empowering women, especially young girls. The aim of this systematic review was to investigate the efficacy of menstrual health education on young girls’ knowledge, attitude and practic...

since iranian society is passing from the traditional identity to the modern identity, the present study, using social interpretivism, studies the challenges that youth deal with in everyday life in terms of identity. using the qualitative and the interview technique, we have tried to achieve a grounded theory.  based on theoretical sampling and the standard of theorical saturation, 28 young pe...

happiness is among the concepts which were subject of empirical studies in 1960s. this concept has been used interchangeably with such concepts as joy, satisfaction with life and the like. while meaningfully correlating with the feeling of joy and satisfaction with life, as indicated by numerous researches, the feeling of happiness is affected by different factors and situations. the present re...

In Pakistan the growing number of higher education institutions and the ever-increasing number of students, forces the institutions to build such an environment which completely satisfies these students’ expectations. This paper uses a modified version of Keaveney and Young (1997) satisfaction model and tests on a sample of students of COMSATS Abbottabad, Pakistan. The study is based on primary...

background : it has been suggested that inflammatory state due to obesity can lead to alteration in iron metabolism. women in reproductive age are at higher risk of iron deficiency. in this study, we aimed to evaluate inflammatory status and iron markers in young overweight and obese women. subjects and methods: in this study, 120 young and healthy women with a bmi ≥ 25 kg/m2 were enrolled. bio...

background: several studies have suggested that obesity-related inflammation can lead to altered iron metabolism as well as higher rates of iron deficiency in obese than in normal-weight subjects. given that at a population level, premenopausal women are at higher risk of iron deficiency, the purpose of this study was to investigate iron and inflammatory status in young overweight and obese wom...

purpose accurate measurement or prediction of fat mass is useful in physiology, nutrition and clinical medicine. most predictive equations currently used to assess percentage of body fat or fat mass, using simple anthropometric measurements were derived from people in western societies and they may not be appropriate for individuals with other genotypic and phenotypic characteristics. we develo...

this paper reports the results of an experimental study on non-native production of english vowels. two groups of persian efl learners varying in language proficiency were tested on their ability to produce the nine plain vowels of american english. vowel production accuracy was assessed by means of acoustic measurements. ladefoged and maddison’s (1996) f1 f2 measurements for american english v...