Lu and Steinhardt (Reports, 23 February 2007, p. 1106) claimed the discovery of a large, potentially quasi-crystalline Islamic tiling in the Darb-i Imam shrine but regard the earlier Maragha tiling, previously described as quasiperiodic, as a small isolated motif. We demonstrate that the Darb-i Imam pattern is periodic and that the quasi-crystalline discs superimposed on its lattice are derivat...

background and objectives: a major problem in public health has been the prevalence of chronic diseases. most of these diseases are due to lifestyle changes, especially in the field of nutrition. the iranian islamic teachings have extensive guidelines on the issue of healthy lifestyle and nutrition in particular. on that account, there are many sayings and traditions related to nutrition and it...

This letter was written because of the high incidence of acute hepatitis A in our hospital in this period of time. In December 2016 and January 2017, eight patients with acute hepatitis A were admitted to Gastroenterology Ward of Imam Hospital. Some of them had acute liver failure and fulminant hepatitis. Fulminant hepatic failure is a rare complication of hepatitis A and it occurs in about 1% ...

This research examines the "Istimta' Limits' For Husbands Toward Wife Who Has Menstruation. In more detail, it discusses ISTIMTA'. is a law that prescribed for couple so there no opportunity husband to commit adultery even though wife menstruating, therefore limit of istimta' towards who menstruating build good family relationships.Opportunities husbands are very few because majority scholars a...

INTRODUCTION Knowledge of emergency medicine residents about the management of patients suspected of having tetanus-favoring wounds is very important due to their responsibility for the treatment of such patients. The aim of the present study was to evaluate this knowledge and making sure of the adequacy of instructions they have received in relation to prevention of tetanus. METHODS A reliab...

The Quran and Hadiths including Infallibles (AS) Hadiths such as Imam Sadegh (AS) were one of compilation references, and also, one of the fields of research for Arabs morphologists from long time ago. Imam Sadegh’s (AS) Hadiths based on Sunni’s lexicon, and then, based on another Islamic science books will be illustrated in this research in order to identify where these Hadiths hav...

Background: Plasmid mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR) has been shown to play an important role in resistance not only to quinolones, but also β-lactams and aminoglycosides. In fact, qnr genes are frequently carried along with β-lactamase determinants on the same plasmids. We studied the prevalence of qnrA, qnrB, qnrS and aac(6’)-Ib-cr genes among quinolone and cephalosporin resistant clinica...

BACKGROUND Infections are considered as one of the main factors of neonatal mortality, especially in developing countries. Blood and urine infections are one of the most prevalent infectious factors among the infants. On the other hand, resistance against antimicrobial factors is one of the major problems in the world, and it is important to be informed about antibiotic resistance pattern of mi...

Neuroblastoma (NB) is considered one of the malignant tumors of the nervous system which originates from primordial neural crest cell and is known as the most common extra-cranial solid tumor in childhood. This tumor which is often intra-abdominal, metastases in various sites including the skull, long bones, liver, bone marrow and lymph nodes, but lung metastasis at initial diagnosis is rare (0...