BACKGROUND Falls and related injuries are common health problems in the elderly. Fractures, brain and internal organ injuries and death are the common consequences of the falls, which result in dependence, decreased self-efficacy, fear of falling, depression, restricted daily activities, hospitalization and admission to the nursing home and impose costs on the individual and the society. OBJE...

STUDY DESIGN Psychometric evaluation design. PURPOSE Psychometric evaluation of a multidisciplinary work-related low back pain predictor questionnaire (MWRLBPPQ) of Iranians patient-care workers based on the social cognitive theory. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Healthcare is one of the professions in which work-related musculoskeletal disorders are prevalent. The chronic low back pain experienced...

We report the generation of West Nile virus (WNV) infectious clones for the pathogenic lineage 1 Texas-HC2002 and nonpathogenic lineage 2 Madagascar-AnMg798 strains. The infectious clones exhibited biological properties similar to those of the parental virus isolates. We generated chimeric viruses and found that viral factors within the structural and nonstructural regions of WNV-TX contribute ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of adjuvant mental practice (MP) on affected upper limb function following a stroke using three-dimensional (3D) motion analysis. METHODS In this AB/BA crossover study, we studied 10 hemiplegic patients who had a stroke within the past 6 months. The patients were randomly allocated to two groups: one group received MP combined with conventional rehabilitat...

this research is about analysis of relation between trust and organizational commitment of personnel. statistic social in this research is the personnel of social welfare organization of qom state and education organization of qom state and statical sample is consist of 35 employees from social welfare organization and 54 employees from education organization of qom state. in analysis of organi...

the influence of persian poetry on american literature is one of the discussions that have been reviewed to a lesser degree by those, who have done research in the field of comparative literature. the subject of the current article is to examine the influence of hafez of shiraz on the romantic poet and the transcendentalist philosopher, ralph waldo emerson. the given research first gives a shor...

Khoshsokhan, M., Kazempour Osaloo, S., Saadatmand, S. & Attar, F. 2010 06 30: Molecular phylogeny of Rochelia (Boraginaceae) based on nrDNA ITS and cpDNA trnL-F sequences. -Iran. J. Bot. 16 (1): 22-29. Tehran. We here present molecular phylogeny of the genus Rochelia (Boraginaceae-Eritrichieae). A total of 8 species of Rochelia and 2 species of Lappula as outgroups were included in analyses usi...

background hepatitis b is the most common chronic viral infection in humans and the most common cause of death among viral hepatitis. as 70% to 80% of chronic hepatitis cases are caused by hbv in iran, this virus alone is considered the most important cause of liver diseases and the major cause of mortality arising from viral hepatitis cases in iran. objectives we planned this study to determin...

background & aims of the study: drinking polluted water can transmit diseases, so potable water treatment is one of the most challenging and complex systems in countries. continuous monitoring for evaluation process in water treatment plant is important. this study aims to investigate performance evaluation of qom water treatment plant to remove turbidity and coliform in 2005 - 2014. materials ...