Introduction: Meatoplasty is the final and essential step in performing effective canal wall down surgery for chronic otitis media. In this article we review some previous techniques and discuss our preferred method. Materials and Methods: In this observational case series study, we used this technique in 53 patients (28 male and 25 female) between January 2005 and January 2008. Our survey was ...

Objectives: One of the most effective methods to describe speech disorders is the measurement of speech intelligibility. The speech intelligibility indicates the extent of acoustic signals that correctly speaker produces and hearer receives. The purpose of this study was to investigate the speech intelligibility in the Persian children with Down syndrome, age range was 3 to 5 years, who had spo...

This paper proposes a novel multi-function isolated three-port bidirectional DC–DC converter for stand-alone photovoltaic (PV) system. The proposed topology was composed of unidirectional step-up and step-up/step-down that only required one set complementary PWM signals to control any operation mode used multiple operating stages improve the practicability converter. In addition, had function i...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to compare the balance and gait functions of children with Down syndrome and typically developing children according to age. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects were 16 children with Down syndrome and 20 children with typical development. The one leg standing test, Romberg's test (open eyes/closed eyes), sharpened Romberg's (open eyes/closed eyes), functi...

cytogenetic studies were performed on 150 cases of down's syndrome (ds) in iran. the standard trisomy 21 was found in 132 (88 % ) and translocation-trisomy 21 (+21) in 18 (12%) patients, i.e., t(21,21) in 1(0.63%) and mosaicism in 17(11.33%) cases. the comparison of the frequencies for mosaicism between different populations such as denmark, hungary, egypt, iraq, india, australia and iran ...