HODJAT HAJIAN,* AMIR GHOBADI, SINA ABEDINI DERESHGI, BAYRAM BUTUN, AND EKMEL OZBAY NANOTAM-Nanotechnology Research Center, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey Department of Physics, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey UNAM-Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University...

Alexander Gersten1, Jacqueline Perle2, Dov Heimer3, Amir Raz4 and Robert Fried5 1Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva 2Department of Psychology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, NY 3Pulmonary Unit, Soroka University Hospital, Beer-Sheva 4McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal 5City University of New York...

Dmitry A. Abanin,1,2,3 Benjamin E. Feldman,1 Amir Yacoby,1 and Bertrand I. Halperin1 1Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 2Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 6B9 3Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 (Received 21 March 2013; revised manuscript received 2 July 2013; published 4 Septem...

Background: As the most prevalent noncontagious neurologic condition, epilepsy is an important cause of mortality and disability in children, its etiology issue. Objectives: Epilepsy may be induced by different risk factors, some which unclear; therefore, this study aimed to evaluate factors seizures children. Methods: Children with admitted Pediatric Clinic Amir-Kabir Hospital were enrolled st...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this research is genealogy examination of three generation of bipolar mood disorder Type I patients. METHODS Patients selected using Poisson sampling method from 100 patients with bipolar mood disorder Type I, referring to a psychiatric center of Amir Kabir Hospital of Arak, Iran. Examine issues such as physical ailments, psychological review of living and deceased...

Background: Congenital hypothyroidism (CH), as one of the most common congenital endocrine disorders, may be significantly associated with congenital malformations. This study investigates urogenital abnormalities in children with primary CH (PCH). Methods: This case-control study was conducted on 200 children aged three months to 1 year, referred to Amir-Kabir Hospital, Arak, Iran. One hundred...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Anxiety is the most common childhood psychiatric disorder. Based on studies, these disorders are more prevalent in some chronic disease. This study aimed at investigating the prevalence of ADHD and anxiety in children with malignancy and anxiety in their parents and comparing the results with those of the control group. One hundred, 3-15-year-...

BACKGROUND Prevention of myocardial siderosis is a key step to reduce rate of mortality in thalassemic patients. Our objective was to study association between echocardiography parameters and serum ferritin level in patients with major thalassemia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty-six patients with major thalassemia were studied in Amir Kabir hospital, Arak, Iran. Serum ferritin levels were measur...

rectal prolapse is a relatively common disease of children and is defined as a rectal mucosa protrusion or a fullthickness protrusion (all layers) from anus. the purpose of this retrospective study is the review of different surgical techniques used in our centers and recommendations for optimal surgical management of rectal prolapse. this study was based on a 19 years experience in rectal prol...