OBJECTIVE To evaluate sensorimotor nerve damage in patients with maxillofacial trauma referring to Taleghani hospital, Tehran, Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted during a 2-year period from 2014 to 2012 in Taleghani hospital of Tehran. We included a total number of 495 patients with maxillofacial trauma referring to our center during the study period. The demographic infor...

abstract turbidity current is one of the most important factors that effect the sediments distribution and also their transportation and release from reservoir. in this study, effects of these currents on sedimentation process in sefidroud dam were simulated by tcm model in 30 years period. comparison between the case of turbidity currents that reach to the dam wall and release from the reservo...

Do we desire something because it has value? Or is the value of a thing a consequence of the fact that it is desired? To adopt the former alternative is to involve oneself in the task of providing a theory of value which would make value a property things have as it were prior to their serving as objects of desire. Theories of this sort have been developed inter alia by Meinong, Nicolai Hartman...

We present a variant of Reimer’s proof of the van den Berg-Kesten conjecture.

Death during autoerotic episodes is of special concern to law enforcement officials, the coroner or medical examiner, the family of the decedent, and to society as a whole. As in the probing of any violent demise, accurate preservation of all evidentiary material, complete photographic documentation, reconstruction of the scene, and interviews with family and acquaintances ("psychological autop...

Virtual environments are becoming more and more accepted, and part of the everyday online experience for many users. This offers new potential for both surveillance and data mining. Some of the techniques used are discussed in this paper. However, such activities may in many countries conflict with the legal framework in place, for example with the German Federal Data Protection Act (Datenschut...

various industrial processes with a huge variety of products, materials and compounds create different kinds of pollution for human beings, so that the identification of environmental pollutants resulting from industrial units’ activities, especially in water resources seems necessary. the aim of this paper is to estimate the role of industrial units in contaminating water resources, through us...

regarding the importance of sciatic nerve distribution in replacement of anal sphincter and sciatic nerve block we decided to study this matter for the first time in iran. in this way 100 cadavers (88% male and 12% female) were dissected and studied by loop microscope. the results shows that primarily, according to the first branch derived from sciatic; there would be 4 main groups. if this sam...