Given that Mandarin is a tone language and English is not, the present study investigated the perception of Mandarin tones in young school-aged children with or without tone language exposure. Mandarin Monolingual (MM), English-Mandarin Bilingual (EMB) and English Monolingual (EM) children aged 6 to 8 years participated in tone identification and discrimination tasks. Tone identification and di...

This paper investigates the possibility of high resolution mapping PM2.5 concentration over Tehran city using satellite AOD (MAIAC) retrievals. For this purpose, a framework including three main stages, data preprocessing; regression modeling; and model deployment was proposed. The output machine learning trained to predict from MAIAC retrievals meteorological data. results testing revealed eff...

Food safety has a direct impact on human health and as such is a growing concern worldwide. Presence of harmful pesticide residue in food is a serious cause for concern among consumers so it is important to monitor levels of pesticides in foods. The aim of this study was simultaneous determination of concentrations of 58 pesticides in 40 wheat flour samples collected from Tehran market in Janua...

BACKGROUND AND AIM DAMA is a result of patient dissatisfaction, which increases the rate of readmission, mortality, and complications. In this study, the causes and predictors of DAMA in Shahid Labbafinejad Hospital of Tehran were determined. METHODS The descriptive and analytical study was conducted in 2016 from the information of 1,168 hospitalized patients in the period of 2015 and the fir...

*Corresponding Author Email: [email protected] Tel.: +98 21 4402 2067 Fax: +98 21 4402 2067 Note: Discussion period for this manuscript open until June 1, 2017 on GJESM website at the “Show Article”. ABSTRACT: Sustainable urban development is a new concept of fundamental environmental metropolitan management that not only creates the demand for changing the concepts of economic development, but ...

Background and Purpose: Numerous comorbidities are involved in the severity of new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Hypothyroidism’s impact on COVID-19 is yet to be adequately understood. Thyroid disorders thought play a role development progress COVID-19. This study aimed determine frequency hypothyroidism among patients hospitalized patients. Materials Methods: retrospective cross-section...

Dr. Abass Alavi was born on March 15, 1938 in Tabriz, a city in Eastern Azerbaijan, north west province of Iran. After graduating from high school in 1957, he moved to Tehran and enrolled at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Following graduation from the medical school in 1964, and as part of the military obligation, he served in small communities in the outskirts of Tehran. In 1966, he tr...