background :severe obesity is highly co-morbid with psychiatric disorders and may have effect on the quality of life. this study aimed to compare severity and prevalence rate of depression, anxiety and eating disorders and quality of life in severe obese patients before and 6 months after the gastric bypass surgery.   methods : this was a prospective observational study which conducted at hazar...

Granular material s display a certain number of properties that have long been observed but only partially understood. Some resemble the properties of solids, some resemble properties of fluids and others are unique. The concept of "fourth state of matter" has been mentioned. This is perhaps precisely the reason why these materials are so fascinating and beautiful. Thus the aim of this work is ...

background: topical anesthesia has been widely advocated as an important component of atraumatic administration of intraoral local anesthesia. the aim of this study was to use direct observation of children’s behavioral pain reactions during local anesthetic injection using cotton-roll vibration method compared with routine topical anesthesia. materials and methods: forty-eight children partici...

this paper attempts to examine the physical and financial performance of some primary dairy co-operatives in west bengal state in indian context. the study suggests that financial performance indicators dominate over physical ones, and all the dominating variables have long term positive impact on primary milk producers’ co-operative societies (pmpcss). also, the significant impact of financial...

city is consisted of a range of specific activities which are responsive to human needs. it deals with human’s features, thoughts and approaches and struggles to achieve formation of the city depending on his world-view and insight. degree of desirability and quality of the city relates to intellectual space that are prevailing on it. islam as a human insight which is rooted from their worldvie...

purpose there is a decrease in quadriceps muscle strength in subjects with patellofemoral pain syndrome. various types of strengthening exercises of the quadriceps are done as part of its management, but the effect of isotonic eccentric quadriceps muscle exercises on patellofemoral pain syndrome has not been studied. hence the aim of this exploratory pilot study was to evaluate the effect of ec...

the field study was conducted in one district of educational-experimental forest at tehran university (kheirood-kenar forest) in the north of iran. eighty-five soil profiles were dug in the site of study and several chemical and physical soil properties were considered. these factors included: soil ph, soil texture, bulk density, organic carbon, total nitrogen, extractable phosphorus and depth ...

the factors such as disease can disrupt homeostasis, resulting in perturbations of endogenous biochemicals that are involved in key metabolic profiles. metabonomics is useful technique to quantitative description of endogenous metabolites present in a biological sample such as urine, plasma and tissue. high resolution 1 h nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr)-based metabonomics is a technique used t...

OBJECTIVE Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with fibromyalgia (FM) is lower than in patients with other chronic diseases and the general population. Although various factors affect HRQOL, no study has examined a structural equation model of HRQOL as an outcome variable in FM patients. The present study assessed relationships among physical function, social factors, psychologica...

The purpose of the study was to examine the structure of the attitudinal scale of the ATIPDPE, an instrument based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) of Ajzen (2000). Participants were 145 prospective physical educators (70 females & 75 males), of an average age of 21.19 years, enrolled in three physical education teacher preparation programs in the Czech Republic. Based on analysis, the a...