background: mucositis is an important adverse effect of cancer treatment. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of ice cubes on oral mucositis following head and neck radiotherapy. materials and methods: a randomized controlled trial was conducted on 40 head and neck cancer patients who underwent radiotherapy. the patients were randomly divided into two experimental and control gr...

the aim of this research work is to examine the effectiveness of the minnesota couples communication program on the quality of life and marital satisfaction. in this quasi-experimental study with control group, 60 individuals (30 couples) having marital conflicts and referring to the counseling centers affiliated to the education department of mashhad were selected through the random sampling m...

Control actuators' faults are among the major reasons to lose aircraft control while flights. The plane dynamics is severely dependent upon faults and errors in flight control systems and if the reformed control order is not issued by the fault tolerant controller there would be unpleasant outcomes such as inconsistency and the reduction of system performance and some dreadful aerial accide...

in order to examine the effect of using rumen protected methionine (mepron, evonik industries, hanau, germany) on productive and reproductive performance under field condition, 195 holstein cows were used in a unbalanced completely randomized design and 2 groups. experimental treatments consisted of: 1) control group with 110 holstein dairy cows (71±51 dim and 47.5±12 milk yield) and without me...

background: anxiety, depression, and other adverse psychological reactions are often observed in elderly hypertensive patients. appropriate exercise is a safe form of adjuvant therapy without causing side effects among these patients, with consistent effects on patients’ mental health. in this study, a collective exercise intervention experiment was conducted to evaluate the mental health of el...

background: congenital toxoplasmosis is one cause of abortion. infection can disrupt ovarian cycles and because toxoplasmosis is an infectious disease may have a similar effect on the ovaries. the purpose of this study was to investigate the pathological changes in the ovaries due to toxoplasmosis.   methods: tachyzoites of toxoplasma gondii were harvested from peritoneal fluid of mice, experim...

background one of the strategies for a good outcome and pain free childbearing is to design the delivery room. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of snoezelen room on childbearing outcome such as pain intensity, duration of labor, and perinea status in nulliparous women. patients and methods this study was a randomized controlled clinical trial consists of 100 childbea...

background & aim:primary dysmenorrhea can be relieved via some medical and non-medical approaches. in this regard, the probable therapeutic role of zinc supplements has been recently emphasized. the present study was conducted to determine the positive effects of zinc supplements on relieving primary dysmenorrhea and premenstrual symptoms. methods:the present double-blind, randomized, controlle...

abstract: the purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of realistic self-talk technique in increasing marital satisfaction of women. this study uses an experimental design so 20 women were selected randomly from those referring to imam hussein mosque and assigned randomly in two “experimental” and “control” groups. those in experimental group received the technique of realistic se...

abstractthis study aimed to shed light on young iranian efl students’ oral proficiency improvement through explicit instruction of formulaic sequences (fss). this pretest-posttest quasi experimental study was conducted in a bilingual school in shahrekord, iran. accordingly, based on actfl opi test, two groups of low intermediate students with age range of 11 to 12 were chosen to be assigned as ...