Intelligent Vehicles, as a main part of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), will have great impact on transportation in near future. They would be able to understand their immediate environment and also communicate with other traffic participants such as other vehicles, infrastructures and traffic management centres. Intelligent vehicles could navigate autonomously in highway and urban sc...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to investigate the sleep symptoms and polysomnographic patterns of obstructive sleep apnea in overweight and obese children. MATERIALS & METHODS Overweight or obese children aging 6-18 yr old referred during 2010 to Endocrinology Clinic of Ghods Hospital in Ghazvin, central Iran were enrolled in the study. Polysomnography was done for the diagnosis of obstru...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to compare the timing of puberty between various geographic locations and different ethnicities. METHODS This national survey was conducted in 20 provinces in Iran. Healthy Iranian girls were selected from public schools using cluster random sampling. A total number of 30 clusters including 7493 girls, aged 6.0-20 years, were selected. In order to compare different...

The concept and meaning of futile care depends on the existing culture, values, religion, beliefs, medical achievements and emotional status of a country. We aimed to define the concept of futile care in the viewpoints of nurses working in intensive care units (ICUs). In this phenomenological study, the experiences of 25 nurses were explored in 11 teaching hospitals affiliated to Social Securit...

tati dialect of northern khorasan is one of the oldest dialects of ancient iran which has structural differences with its other variations. sharing common words with the other tati dialects, especially those of azerbaijan and ghazvin, shows that tati dialect of northern khorasan, like others, is one of the dialects existing in pre-islamic era. this dialect is also one of those dialects in which...

u sing the database of the animal breeding center ofiran and based on the eligible test-day data from 78969 cows in five provinces: tehran (with 44129 cows), ghazvin (6668), zanjan (1767), isfahan (7572), khorasan-e-razavi (14521) and others (4312) the averages of 426850 ± 966840 and 473860 ± 605330 cells/ml of milk somatic cell count (scc) was calculated for individual cows and herds respectiv...

irrigation management transfer (imt) is under implementation within 63 countries over the world. the results and constraints of this event have been different in mentioned countries. this research objected to survey of imt constraints and identifies its key indicators in ghazvin and moghan pilots with different characteristics in type of irrigation and their imt process. the research method is ...

background: accidents are the second cause of death in iran and one of the significant challenges in public health. they can affect people in all ages. in this study, we try to calculate years of life lost due to intentional and unintentional injuries, which is considered as one of the main indicators for prioritizing public health problems.   methods: this study is a practical cross sectional ...