The present study intended to compare the complaint responses used by President Rouhani and President Obama in the Iranian and US news interview contexts. For this purpose, Boxer’s (1993) six types of indirect complaint responses were adopted: ‘ignorance’, ‘questions’, ‘topic switch’, ‘contradiction’, ‘joke/teasing’, ‘advice/lecture’ and ‘agreement/commiseration’. The transcripts of the live ne...

Background: Bone lesion in multiple myeloma (MM) is most commonly presented as a lytic lesion in this disease. Determination of extent of bone lesions in MM is necessary to follow-up the patients. Whole body bone scan with 99m, Tc-methylene diphosphonate (MDP) has a lower sensitivity than other modalities. Methods: From the patients with MM admitted to Ayatollah Rouhani Hospital of Babol-Iran ...

Background: Non-melanoma skin cancer is the most common malignant tumor in humans. The role of ultraviolet radiation is well-known in the pathogenesis of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). CD10 is a zinc-dependent metallopeptidase known as common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen (CALLA). Although CD10 expression has been investigated in some cutaneous tumors, to o...

During the last decade, there has been a growing interest in developing nonlinear model-based control methods. This interest has led to substantial progress mainly within the two frameworks of model predictive control (MPC) and differential geometric control. MPC is an optimization-based control methodology which explicitly accounts for process constraints and in general leads to a controller w...

The present study intended to compare the complaint responses used by President Rouhani and President Obama in the Iranian and US news interview contexts. For this purpose, Boxer’s (1993) six types of indirect complaint responses were adopted: ‘ignorance’, ‘questions’, ‘topic switch’, ‘contradiction’, ‘joke/teasing’, ‘advice/lecture’ and ‘agreement/commiseration’. The transcripts of the live ne...

This paper proposes CausaLearn, the first automated framework that enables real-time and scalable approximation of Probability Density Function (PDF) in the context of causal Bayesian graphical models. CausaLearn targets complex streaming scenarios in which the input data evolves over time and independence cannot be assumed between data samples (e.g., continuous time-varying data analysis). Our...

Background and aim Maternal recto-vaginal organisms are the main cause of early-onset sepsis in neonates. The aim of this study was to determine the most common organisms and compare maternal recto-vaginal colonization in term and preterm delivery. Methods This cross-sectional study was done from October 2014 through October 2016 among participants referred to Ayatollah Rouhani Hospital in Ba...

BACKGROUND Vitamin D has a potential to modulate inflammatory response against noxious particles in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The present study was conducted to determine the status of serum vitamin D in COPD versus healthy group. METHODS The patients presented to the outpatient pulmonary clinic of Ayatollah Rouhani Hospital, Babol Iran. Diagnosis of COPD was...

Abstract Background Nowadays, it is generally assumed that non-pharmacologic pain relief in preterm infants an important measure to consider. Research findings suggest familiar odors have soothing effects for neonates. The aim of this study was compare the effect maternal breast milk odor (MBMO) with another mother’s (BMO) on behavioral responses caused by hepatitis B (HB) vaccine injection inf...