BACKGROUND This study aimed to investigate the epidemiological and clinical aspects of patients with hydatid cyst during 2011 to 2014. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in Khorasan Razavi Province, the Northeast of Iran, from 2011 to 2014. The study population was all cases with hydatid cyst who diagnosed in governmental and private laboratories, hospitals and health centers (H...

Correspondence to: Professor Reza Razavi, Cardiac MR Research Group, Division of Imaging Sciences, 5th Floor Thomas Guy House, Guy’s Hospital, London, SE1 9RT, UK; reza. [email protected] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C ardiac magnetic resonance (MR) is increasingly replacing diagnostic cardiac catheterisation as a method of assessing cardiac anatomy, measuring blood flow, and qu...

1 School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China 2Department of Mathematics, Anand International College of Engineering, Agra Road, Near Bassi, Jaipur, Rajasthan 303012, India 3 Ambedkar Institute of Advanced Communication Technologies and Research, Government of NCT of Delhi, Geeta Colony, Delhi 110031, India 4Department of Electrical Engin...

BACKGROUND Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) is an acute febrile haemorrhagic disease. This study was conducted to ascertain the infection status amongst slaughterhouse workers in Iran's north-eastern provinces (Razavi and northern and southern Khorasan), so that analysis of the results could help clarification of the epidemiology of this disease in the aforementioned provinces and eastern...

This paper introduces a method for achieving stable periodic walking for legged robots. This method is based on producing a type of odd-even symmetry in the system. A hybrid system with such symmetries is called a Symmetric Hybrid System (SHS). We discuss the properties of an SHS and, in particular, will show that an SHS can have an infinite number of synchronized periodic orbits. We describe h...

BACKGROUND During the last decades, the number of dentistry units increased significantly across the country. The aim of this study was to assess the efficiency of dental units of Iran provinces regarding dental health inputs and outputs using Data Envelopment Analysis approach. METHODS In this applied descriptive-analytical study, the study population included all of Iran 31 provinces. The o...