this paper aims to show the impact of fear of god, as one of the most important signs of religious spirituality, on improving sexual and gender relationships in family and society as well as other social relationships and thus to offer some procedures for enhancing and expanding this character at familial and societal levels in order to reduce the problems involved in social relations specially...

Trabecular bone has been previously recognized as time-dependent (viscoelastic) material, but the relationships of its viscoelastic behaviour with bone volume fraction (BV/TV) have not been investigated so far. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to quantify the time-dependent viscoelastic behaviour of trabecular bone and relate it to BV/TV. Uniaxial compressive creep experiments were p...

Using a multielectrode conductance catheter to estimate continuous left ventricular volume we determined the end-systolic pressure-volume relationship (ESPVR) in situ in open-chest anesthetized dogs. Dogs (n = 8) were studied in the control state and after pharmacologic sympathectomy (hexamethonium) and surgical vagotomy both before and after the administration of dobutamine. ESPVR was measured...

BACKGROUND Positive relationships between hospital volume and outcomes have been demonstrated for several surgeries and medical conditions. However, little is known about the volume-outcome relationship in patients admitted to medical ICUs. OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between hospital volume and risk-adjusted in-hospital mortality for patients admitted to ICUs with respiratory, ne...

BACKGROUND Countries with centralized, high-volume mammography screening programs, such as the U.K. and Sweden, emphasize high specificity (low percentage of false positives) and high sensitivity (high percentage of true positives). By contrast, the United States does not have centralized, high-volume screening programs, emphasizes high sensitivity, and has lower average specificity. We investi...

OBJECTIVE To characterize contemporary practice patterns and outcomes of vestibular schwannoma surgery. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis. SETTING Maryland Health Service Cost Review Commission database. PATIENTS The study included patients who underwent surgery for vestibular schwannoma between 1990 and 2009. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Temporal trends and relationships between volume and in-h...

Cancer presents significant hurdle in the goal to increase life expectancy of world population. In 2020 breast cancer has become leading cause global female population, ahead lung cancer. Over past half century, approach treatment changed dramatically that led improvement survival rates and quality patients. particular, changes affected surgical The modern tactics treating patients more complex...