background: health workers ability to provide high quality care can be adversely affected by many factors such as sleep deprivation associated with shift work. the aim of this study was to compare sleep disorders among shift workers and non-shift workers in kermanshah hospital (2005) methods: at first, demographic information of the participants were gathered. 653 volunteers were divided into t...

We propose new empirical tests for pseudorandom numbers based on random walks on Zm. The tests focus on the distribution of arrival time at zero starting from a nonzero fixed point x. The exact probability density of the arrival time is obtained by the Fourier analysis on finite groups. This kind of test based on the probability density for a random walk on a finite group is done for the first ...

background: today, obesity is considered as a health problem that increases the risk of some diseases. therefore, identifying the effective factors on obesity is of great importance. shift work is one of the indicators for increased risk of obesity in society and also shift work may cause various health problems for workers in military organizations. the current study aimed to investigate the r...

In this report, we present a novel feature detection technique for unstructured point clouds. We introduce a generalized concept of geometric features that detects locally uniquely identifiable keypoints as centroids of area with locally minimal slippage. We extend the concept to multiple scales and extract features using multi-scale mean shift clustering. In order to validate matches between f...

Introduction For dose measurement in Megavoltage (MV) photon beams with ion chambers, the effect of volume occupied by the air cavity is not negligible. Therefore, the result of measurement should be corrected with a displacement perturbation correction factor (Pdis) or using an effective point of measurement (EPOM). The aim of this study is to calculate the EPOM for cylindrical ion chamber and...

abstract   background: irregular working hours, including night work and shift work, have been found to be associated with alteration in various levels of biochemical factors. and some studies have showed association between shift work and blood biochemical disturbances in blood. in this epidemiological study we investigated, whether regular schedule of working hours can minimize the associated...

Large area positron cameras for three-dimensional imaging in medicine have been under development for several years at a number of centres (McKee er a1 1979, Bateman er a1 1980, Jeavons et a1 1981, Del Guerra er a1 1983), and some groups have reported clinical applications (Ott er a1 1983, Townsend et a1 1984). To reconstruct the data, an algorithm based on a backprojection and frequency space ...

Structural properties, energies behavior and NBO analysis was performed for1-5 prototrophic shift endinelboran where substitutions like H, CH3 and CF3 that were placed on Benzene were investigated by usingDFT-B3LYP/6-311+G** level of theory. The Results show that, -BH2 shift doesn’t take place and a kind of[1,3] shift for borotrophic occured. In prototrophic shift, however, [1,5] transition eas...