background: classroom behaviors are disturbed in autistic students because of their repetitive, restlessness, and disruptive behaviors. this study aimed to examine the impacts of sitting on a ball, cushion, and/or common chair on classroom behavior of four students with autism spectrum disorder (asd). methods : four children with autism participated in this single-subject study. students’ behav...

continuous four hours eeg (electroencephalogram) recordings and its power spectrum analysis using fast fourier transform (fft) in urethane anesthetized male charles foster rats were performed in two groups: open brain injury and p-cpa (para-chlorophenylalanine) pretreated before brain injury, respectively, and compared with the eeg power spectrum of control rats. the eeg power spectrum analysis...

objective: children with autism have sitting and on-task behavior problems in class. therefore, the effects of three alternative classroom-seating devices such as regular classroom chairs, therapy balls, and air cushions were examined on students’ classroom behavior. material and method: fifteen autistic students participated in this a-b-a-c multiple treatments, semi-experimental study. student...

conclusions according to our results, blatem-116 was the most frequent isolated esbl gene among the p. aeruginosa strains isolated from patients. results ciprofloxacin and piperacillin were the most efficient antipseudomonal agents. the results disclosed that 19 (16.37%) of the isolates were multidrug resistant and 8 (6.89%) were esbl-positive. of the 116 isolates, 30 (25.86%) were resistant to...

INTRODUCTION Pain drawings have been frequently used in the preoperative evaluation of spine patients. Until now most investigations have focused on low back pain patients, even though pain drawings are used in neck pain patients as well. The aims of this study were to investigate the pain drawing and its association to preoperative demographics, psychological impairment, and pain intensity. ...

in this paper, we consider the boundedness of the libera operator on dirichlet spaces in terms of the schur test. moreover, we get its point spectrum and norm.

background: sufficient and thorough knowledge in early recognition of symptoms and proper management of asd is of utmost importance to medical graduates in the initial years of their learning in medical school. their knowledge regarding asd will be helpful when they become health care professionals as it will be easy for proper management of asd. our aim is to evaluate and analyze medical under...

background  autistic spectrum disorder (asd) is a neurodevelopmental disorder. there is a large quantity of evidence which point towards a positive correlation between autism and mitochondrial disorders (md). in addition to that, several published reports, indicate that people with neurological disorders exhibit pathological signs of mitochondrial disorders and vice versa. screening for underly...

objective: the present study has been carried out to compare the social competence in two groups of students with autism disorder (ad) and learning disorders (ld). methods: this research was a kind of descriptive research with 2 comparative groups. 90 learning and autistic disorder students aged 10 to 13 years (45 ld & 45 ad) were selected randomly as a statistical sample. for the assessment of...