it seems that endometriosis plays an important role in female factor infertility but a clear causal relationship has yet to be established. this case-control study was conducted to determine and compare the frequency and severity of endometriosis in 100 infertile women and 120 fertile multi-para women as control group. descriptive statistics, student t test and chi square test were used in anal...

Numerous studies have documented a significant association between symptom severity and cognitive functioning in bipolar disorder (BD). These findings advanced speculations about a potential link between the physiological stress associated with illness severity and cognitive dysfunction. To explore this hypothesis, the current study employed heart rate variability (HRV) as a physiological measu...

drought is a gradual phenomenon and cause important changes in water resources, agriculture and so on. due to the stochastic behavior of factors that influence the occurrence and intense of drought, one can consider this phenomenon as a stochastic process. with respect to the importance of predicted drought severity and its vital influence in designing and operating water resources systems, thi...

Emphasis on quality of care has become a major focus for healthcare providers and institutions. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has multiple quality-of-care performance programs and initiatives aimed at providing transparency to the public, which provide the ability to directly compare services provided by hospitals and individual physicians. These quality-of-care programs highli...

www.chestpubs.org pathogen and 332 patients with no identifi ed pathogen ( Table 1 ) and found no association. Bacterial documentation of our population was representative of pathogens isolated in patients with severe CAP. A part of unidentifi ed pathogens might have been viral pneumonia, which is not usually searched in clinical practice. 4 These results showing thrombocytopenia for a high pe...

BACKGROUND Acute brain dysfunction (delirium and coma) during critical illness is prevalent and costly, but the pathophysiology remains unclear. The relationship of acute brain dysfunction with endothelial function, which is impaired in critical illness and may contribute to alterations in cerebral blood flow and blood-brain barrier permeability, has not been studied. This study sought to deter...

PURPOSE To examine whether apparent advantages following training in meditation over exercise can be attributed to specific symptoms, functional impairments, or quality-of-life indicators assessed by the Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS-24). METHODS Results from the randomized controlled trial "Meditation or Exercise for Preventing Acute Respiratory Illness" showed mean globa...

objective: psychological capital is a new concept which has been raised since the third millennium and entered in organizational field since 2006. given the unique role of this concept in the production of corporate wealth it has been changed into a research basis for researchers and scholars. therefore, the present study aims to design a model for promotion of psychological capital with an emp...