Background: The prevalence of allergic diseases has risen in the last decades. The objective of this study was to determine the common allergens in children via the skin prick test.Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited 313 allergic children (4 months to 18 years old) referred to the Asthma and Allergy Clinic of Children’s Medical Center in Tehran. A questionnaire containing demographic ...

The JPEG committee has been continuing its activities on definition of international standards related to still image coding systems in order to prepare the ground for interoperable solutions, products and services, which make use of digital images. Currently, JPEG committee is pursuing three such efforts, namely, JPSearch, which deals with annotation, search and retrieval of digital images and...

Anonymous communication is useful in variety of online applications. Evoting, online chat software and data collection for surveying are some of the applications where anonymity is an important feature. One way to guarantee anonymous network communication is using a mix network (mix-net) protocol. A mix network is a protocol that contains several mix servers. A mix server collects user’s cipher...

needed in the SCI database. Third, international diversity must be fulfilled. This means that authors, editors, and editorial advisory board members are from around the world. Fourth, citations to the journal itself (impact factor) and citations to the contributing authors, editorial board members of KJFM must be more than some point. It is a very challenging task for KJFM to be listed in the S...

Purpose of Review Malaria remains a global burden contributing to morbidity and mortality especially in children under 5 years of age. Despite the progress achieved towards malaria burden reduction, achieving elimination in more countries remains a challenge. This article aims to review the prevention and control strategies for malaria, to assess their impact towards reducing the disease burden...

To cite: Marang-van de Mheen PJ, Shojania KG. BMJ Qual Saf 2014;23:701–705. Efforts to measure quality using patient outcomes—whether hospital mortality rates or major complication rates for individual surgery—often become mired in debates over the adequacy of adjustment for case-mix. Some hospitals take care of sicker patients than other hospitals. Some surgeons operate on patients whom other ...

In the aftermath of a large disaster, the routing of vehicles carrying critical supplies can greatly impact the arrival times to those in need. Since it is critical that the deliveries are both fast and fair to those being served, it is not clear that the classic cost-minimizing routing problems properly reflect the priorities relevant in disaster relief. In this paper, we take the first steps ...

Nanomaterials have unique physical and chemical properties that are useful for various consumer and industrial applications, but these very same properties may give rise to unique biological reactivity. This has led to mounting concerns over the safety of nanomaterials, and pressure to control the potential risks. The toxicological properties of metal, metal oxide nanoparticles, quantum dots, f...