1 Department of Statistics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran Naghshejahan Institute of Higher Education, Baharestan, Isfahan, Iran. Email: [email protected] 2 Department of Statistics, St. Anthony’s College, Shillong, Meghalaya, India. Email: [email protected] 3 Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Email: [email protected] 4 D...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a common disorder which happens when the balance of bacterial flora in vagina is disrupted by a shift in concentration of lactobacillus and pathogenic bacteria.It has significant sequelae including increased rates of late miscarriage when diagnosed in early pregnancy, premature rupture of the membranes, endometritis, preterm labour and deliv...

Librarian in Charge of Library, Faculty of Dentistry, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran Master Student, Department of Library and Information Sciences, Faculty of Human Sciences, Islamic Azad University of Hamedan, Hamedan, Iran Assistant Professor, Department of Library Science and Information, Qom Payame Noor University, Qom, Iran *Corresponding Author; E-mail: simaesmaeilza...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to compare the personal well-being among the wives of Iranian veterans living in the city of Qom. METHOD A sample of 300 was randomly selected from a database containing the addresses of veteran's families at Iran's Veterans Foundation in Qom (Bonyad-e-Shahid va Omoore Isargaran). The veterans' wives were divided into three groups: wives of martyrs (killed v...

BACKGROUND Mosquitoes lay eggs in a wide range of habitats with different physicochemical parameters. Ecological data, including physicochemical factors of oviposition sites, play an important role in integrated vector management. Those data help the managers to make the best decision in controlling the aquatic stages of vectors especially using source reduction. METHODS To study some physico...

Hierarchical distance-based fuzzy multi-criteria group decision making was served as a tool to evaluate the drinking water supply systems of Qom, a semi-arid city located in central part of Iran. A list of aspects consisting of 6 criteria and 35 sub-criteria were evaluated based on a linguistic term set by five decision-makers. Four water supply alternatives including "Public desalinated distri...

Department of Chemistry, Vidya Bharati College, Camp, Amravati, Maharashtra, India Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Qom, Qom, Iran Laboratoire Chimie des Matériaux, Université Mohammed Premier, Oujda-60000, Morocco Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA Division of Organic Chemistry, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411008, India Department of Pharmaceutical Chemi...

BACKGROUND Data from monkeys with deafferented forelimbs and humans after stroke indicate that tests of the motor capacity of impaired extremities can overestimate their spontaneous use. Before the Motor Activity Log (MAL) was developed, no instruments assessed spontaneous use of a hemiparetic arm outside the treatment setting. OBJECTIVE To study the MAL's reliability and validity for assessi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Motor Activity Log (MAL) is a semistructured interview for hemiparetic stroke patients to assess the use of their paretic arm and hand (amount of use [AOU]) and quality of movement [QOM]) during activities of daily living. Scores range from 0 to 5. The following clinimetric properties of the MAL were quantified: internal consistency (Cronbach alpha), test-retest agree...

Department of Chemistry, Islamic Azad University, Qom Branch, Qom, Iran 2 Department of Chemistry, Teacher Training University, 15614, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Chemistry, Yasouj University, Yasouj, Iran 4 Institute of Materials Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria 5 Department of Chemistry, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran 6 Department of Chemistry, Razi Universi...