BACKGROUND A lack of neurotrophic support is believed to contribute to the development of diabetic neuropathy. On the other hand, neurotrophins have consistently been shown to increase in the central and peripheral nervous system following exercise, but the effects of exercise intervention on brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and nerve growth factor (NGF) in diabetic neuropathy are not u...

Aims: One of the most common cardiac surgeries is valve replacement. All cardiac valve-replaced patients need to use warfarin during their life in order to reduce the risk of valvular thrombosis.There were some reports about various problems of using warfarin by considering care conditions, but there was no comprehensive study based on patients’ experiences. The present study was carried out wi...

abstract nowadays, measuring water quality is very important for comprehensive management of water resources. suspended sediment is one of the most important water quality factors which greatly affects environment health. however, its measurement needs too much time and money. it was therefore tried in the present study to assess the applicability of modelling relationship between suspended sed...

abstract the proper management of a watershed depends on recognition of effective elements and investigation of their behavior in different conditions. till date, many researches have studied the role of topographical general characteristics on hydrologic behaviors. whereas, the changeability of hydrologic properties under different conditions, especially in iranian watershed has been rarely ta...

in order to investigate the effect of hexaconazole (hex) on the increasing tolerance to water deficit stress of two soybean (glycine max l.) cultivars, an experiment was conducted in faculty of agronomy of tarbiat modares university as factorial experiment in randomized complete block design arrangement. factors examined in this study were included soybean cultivars (l17 and clark63), hex conce...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived organizational support and the trait emotional intelligence with the entrepreneurial behavior of employees in jihad-e keshavarzi organization of fars province. the research method used was a survey and descriptive- correlation techniques. statistical population of this study consisted of 110 experts in jihad-e- agri...

objective: to determine association between sexual desire and marital satisfaction and sex guilt among a sample of iranian female university students. methods: the data presented here were obtained from a total of 192 married iranian female university students who were selected via a multi-cluster sampling method from universities of social welfare and rehabilitation, tarbiat modarres, and isla...

patients’ perception of fatty liver disease: a phenomenological study h habibzadeh , msc f alhani, phd m anusheh , phd hr omrani , bsc received: 16 july, 2009 accepted: 25 oct, 2009 abstract background & aims: paying attention to symptoms and subjective experiences perceived by the patients of various diseases is a valid approach to medical or nursing diagnosis. considering the experiences of i...

objective: the purpose of the present study was to compare the efficacy of metacognitive therapy with cognitive therapy on reducing test anxiety and meta-worry among students. methods: the present study is a quasi-experimental research with pre- and post-test design with a control group. study population comprised all female students of tarbiat-modaresuniversity of tehran and sample included 15...

nanotechnology has been shown to have promising roles in the development of various industries including the agricultural sector. the primary purpose of this study was to investigate the researchers’ attitude and the obstacle hampering the development of nanotechnology in the agricultural sector of iran. the population of this study consisted of researchers in national research centers/institut...