the writing of iranian architectural history has, from its start, followed the principles of western historiography. portions of this history are well expected to be neglected or unattended when writing of it takes place outside its intellectual framework that essentially reflects the iranian throught world. to have a truly iranian architectural historiography, one has to find the theoretical p...

in the september and november 2006 issues of nature clinical practice nephrology , two articles regarding living unrelated kidney donor transplantation alluded to the practices in iran. having served in the planning, supervision and implementation of various aspects of health care in iran, including organ transplantation (anh), and as transplant nephrologists who have actively participated in t...

The development of medical clusters is high on the agenda of many policymakers in the European Union. Constructing medical clusters may draw on the presence of living labs of different kinds in the regions involved. Living labs are practical environments for innovation aiming at a better mix and match between stakeholders for co-development and reduction of time-to-market through an early invol...

OBJECTIVE This study investigates the process of aging in place in assisted living facilities (ALFs) and seeks to gain an in-depth understanding of the factors influencing this phenomenon in a variety of ALF contexts. METHODS Qualitative methods were used to study five ALFs for 1 year. Data collection methods included participant observation; informal and in-depth interviewing of providers, r...

The state’s astounding variety of biotic communities with their diverse collections of plants and animals is examined in this chapter. The living laboratory we call California is so enormous and biologically diverse that the study of it poses some problems: Where do we start? How do we organize our study? How do we classify the various living environments? Of course, these same problems confron...

BACKGROUND Sleep problems among assisted living facility (ALF) residents are not well understood, and sleep-related differences between ALF residents and home-dwelling older adults have not been examined. METHODS We compared sleep patterns in 19 ALF residents to sleep patterns in 19 matched home-dwelling older people (age > or =65 years). All were participating in the follow-up portion of a l...

PURPOSE Residential care/assisted living describes diverse facilities providing non-nursing home care to a heterogeneous group of primarily elderly residents. This article derives typologies of assisted living based on theoretically and practically grounded evidence. DESIGN AND METHODS We obtained data from the Collaborative Studies of Long-Term Care, which examined 193 assisted living facili...

The purpose of the course was to develop a middleware for sensor networks that can be used in homes. The ultimate goal is to support a care network (family and friends) in trying to keep a loved one out of an assisted living facility. The middleware will allow the sensors in a home to be viewed and managed as a collection. This middleware will be used to specify what data should be gathered and...

the liver transplantation program was established at shiraz nemazee hospital in 1993. shortage of cadaver organ supply due to various social and legal issues urged us to develop a living-related liver transplantation (lrlt) program. so far 7 (6 males, 1 female) living-related liver transplantations have been performed at this center. the mean age of patients was 8.21 years (+/- 4.16), with a ra...

normal 0 false false false microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: war is a known cause of tremendous physical injuries to different body organs, and eyes are not exceptions. war-related no visual acuity (nva) affects both the victim and the family. activity of daily living (adl) can display personal life independency and is considered as a morbidity index. this study was designed to investigate...