BACKGROUND Sexual dysfunction is the most common disorder in women. According to the WHO, sexual education programs are considered as a need. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the effect of educational program on sexual function in women with sexual dysfunction. METHODS This randomized trial, was conducted in 2013 on 90 married women by convenient sampling in Qazvin, central I...

BACKGROUND General cognitive function predicts psychiatric illness across the life course. This study examines the role of pleiotropy in explaining the link between cognitive function and psychiatric disorder. METHODS We used two large genome-wide association study data sets on cognitive function-one from older age, n = 53,949, and one from childhood, n = 12,441. We also used genome-wide asso...

BACKGROUND Hands burn was associated with significant functional disorders that severely affected patient’s quality of life. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of educational program based on exercise therapy on burned hand function. METHODS This experimental research was conducted in a period of ten months in 2010-2011 in Mottahari Hospital in Tehran in Iran. The sample inclu...

There are growing number of foreign people who are interested in learning the Japanese language. However, there are not enough teachers and courseware of Japanese education. One of the problems is a wide range of interests: daily conversations, business correspondences, technical documents, etc., which cannot be covered in a single courseware or a class. Making a textbook with a comprehensive s...

OBJECTIVE To determine if first trimester maternal thyroid dysfunction is a critical determinant of child scholastic performance and overall educational attainment. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children cohort in the UK. PARTICIPANTS 4615 mother-child pairs with an available first trimester sample (median 10 weeks gestation, interquartile...

In this paper a useful educational tool is presented for minimizing low order Boolean expressions. The algorithm follows the Karnaugh map looping approach and provides optimal results. For the implementation, C++ was used on the CodeWarrior for Palm Operating System environment. In order to make the overall implementation efficient, the object oriented approach was used. Two step-by-step exampl...

Low socioeconomic status is associated with reduced lung function in adults. In addition, there are indications that lung function decline with age is accelerated in low socioeconomic groups, but, to date, findings have been inconclusive. In order to investigate the relation between educational level, forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) and decline in FEV1 over time, linear mixed-effects mod...

This report is a synoptic review of the proceedings of the European Neuroscience and Society Network (ENSN) launch. ENSN, is a European forum that discusses the social, political, economic, and ethical implications of the brain sciences from a multidisciplinary approach. Since it is the leading European forum of its kind, it is worthwhile reflecting on the various debates raised by the experts ...