Background: Several studies have examined the effects of folic acid fortification on the occurrence of orofacial clefts. This study was carried out to evaluate the impact of flour fortification with folic acid on oral clefts in Northern Iran.   Methods : In this hospital based study from March 2006 to September 2009, we screened the total number of live births at all hospitals in Golestan pro...

OBJECTIVE To translate and test the reliability and validity of the 31-item epilepsy quality of life questionnaire (QOLIE-31) in Iranian epileptic patients. METHODS In order to standardize the questionnaire, using a standard "forward-backward" translation, cognitive debriefing, and cultural adaptation procedure, the English version of the QOLIE-31 was translated to Persian (the Iranian offici...

This paper presents the Dual Scattering Channel (DSC) numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations for viscous quasi-incompressible flow in the Oberbeck-Boussinesq approximation. The implementation in hexahedral non-orthogonal mesh is outlined. A numerical example illustrates the approach. MSC-classes: 65C20, 65M06, 76D05 Westerham, March 31, 2006

OBJECTIVE To identify the presenting features and spectrum of pathogens in adult patients with acute diarrhoea and to determine the predictors of stool culture positivity. METHODS A descriptive study was conducted in a tertiary care hospital from April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006. Medical records of all consecutive adult patients with history of acute diarrhoea were reviewed between June 2006 t...

The session on beam losses, halo generation and collimation is the first of two sessions of the BEAM07 Workshop, which were devoted to specific CERN-GSI subjects and were meant to be the follow up of last year’s CERNGSI Bilateral Meeting on Collective Effects, which took place on March 30-31, 2006 at the GSI-Darmstadt.

Spam, defined as the transmission of bulk unsolicited messages, has plagued Internet email. Unfortunately, spam is not limited to email. It can affect any system that enables user to user communications. The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) defines a system for user to user multimedia communications. Therefore, it is susceptible to spam, just as email is. In this document, we analyze the probl...