in the present study 220 diarrheal samples of children aged between 3-12 months and 100 samples from healthy individuals of the same age group reffered to Shiraz university hospitals were investigated for bacterial and viral agents.Electron microscopy methods were used for the viral investigations,while conventional techniques of bacteriology were used for isolation of bacterial agents.the prev...

Xinjiang is a vast area of moun tains and desert bas ins that formed the main route for con tact be tween early China and the West. The south ern Talimu Ba sin is well known for the re mark able or ganic pres er va tion there of buri als and aban doned set tle ments. Lesser known is the north ern Zhunge’er Ba sin that lay across the route out to the Eur asian steppes. From at least as early as ...

Although trans-brachial approach via brachial cut done, that has been introduced by Sones in 1959, was the prefer method for coronary angiography in the 1950s and 1960s, because of the complexity of the procedure, it lost its popularity during last decades. Meanwhile trans-femoral (TF) approach became popular and dominant method for cathe‐ terization and angiography, because of the simplicity o...

THE generation of proper word boundaries is an important part of several problems in information processing. Specifically, the speech recognition problem is often described as the production of a phonemic transcript, followed by the assembly of phonemes into complete words.1,2,3,4 The automatic translation of certain natural or artificial languages, such as, for example, Chinese and Japanese to...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between job stress with personality characteristics and organizational commitment. this study is descriptive and correlational. the study population comprised all nurses in 13-aban hospital of ghods city. the sample group consisted of 120 nurses who were selected through convenience sampling. research instruments were hse job stress ques...

purpose: to compare tear secretion values following lasik (laser in situ keratomileusis) and photorefractive keratectomy (prk). methods: patients referred to aban eye clinic (isfahan, iran) for refractive surgery were randomly assigned to lasik or prk. exclusion criteria were contraindications for refractive surgery, usage of topical ocular drugs, dry eye and reoperation. schirmer test was perf...

abstract accurate prediction of hourly minimum temperature is required for various crop models which simulate photosynthesis and transpiration. such data can be used for crop protection and reducing the crops injuries due to freezing as well. our objective of this study is employing trigonometric and pattern recognition (k-nn) approaches to evaluate their potential in prediction of hourly tempe...

the effectiveness of any drug supply systems in providing a trustworthy supply of essential drugs is a critical issue. to evaluate this effectiveness, it is necessary to watch over the status of the essential medicines in any country impartially and continuously. some countries and also the world health organization (who) have codified a list of minimum medicines needed for a basic health care ...