OBJECTIVE To describe the profile and the scientific output of physical therapists researchers holding a research productivity fellowship (PQ) from the Brazilian National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico-CNPq). METHOD This is a cross-sectional study, which has evaluated the Lattes Curriculum of all PQ physiother...

The Islamic Republic of Iran ranked 17th in terms of science production in the world in 2012, according to the latest statistics released by the Scopus database. According to the statistics, Iran produced 34,155 articles in 2012, which gained the country the world’s 17th rank in science production and fixed its top position in the region, above Turkey. Scientific progress over the past few year...

For circulating norepinephrine (NE) to reflect sympathetic activity validly, plasma NE should show an intensity-dependent increase during sympathetic stimulation and decrease during sympathetic inhibition, and circulating NE should correlate with more directly obtained measures of sympathetic activity. Review of published evidence indicates that NE in peripheral plasma satisfies these criteria....

P atients describe a wide variety of peculiar symptoms in association with cardiac arrhythmias, and it is the purpose of this paper, which presents a collection of hemodynamic data in such states, to uncover any possible clinical counterparts of disturbed hemodynamic functions. The pressure curves were recorded during cardiac catheterization, and, when available, cardiac output was determined a...

The scientific publication process has been so far only marginally affected by the possibilities of the Internet. This may be attributed to a lack of sound business models and pilots to demonstrate the ultimate benefits of free scientific publication. A team of universities, Internet publishers and applied research institutes proposes in the framework of the SciX-project (open, self-organizing ...

Every year, a considerable amount of money is being invested on research, mainly in the form of funding allocated to universities and research institutes. To better distribute the available funds and to set the most proper R&D investment strategies for the future, evaluation of the productivity of the funded researchers and the impact of such funding is crucial. In this paper, using the data on...

the sources of output growth of iranian agriculture over the years 1986-2001 has been examined, using a decomposition method within the input-output (io) framework. the three comparable io tables of 1986, 1991, and 2001 have been employed as the main data sources. output changes from a demand side perspective, and decomposition of the growth of output into components attributable to consumption...

currently, the scientific output indexed in databases such as isi’s prestigious of the major criteria for evaluation and ranking of countries, researchers, institutes and universities in the world. each country’s share in world scientific output in general and specifically in the area, will be calculated accordingly. therefore, determination of the rate of growth and iranian authors of articles...