the effect of educational program based on basnef model on the pregnant mothers` physical activity     shakeri m [1] *, fekri sh [2] , shahnavaz a [3]     received: 05 sep, 2012 accepted: 06 dec, 2012     abstract   background & aims : regular physical activity is an important role in pregnancy, therefore this investigation was carried out in order to assess thee effect of educational program b...

Abstract Background/Aims The 2018 British Society for Rheumatology guidelines mandate pre-treatment screening infections (including tuberculosis [TB], viral hepatitis and HIV) in patients prior to treatment initiation with advanced therapies. It is increasingly common switch therapies due inefficacy or intolerance. There no established guideline stipulating the frequency of rescreening when swi...

Masood, Tahir Calf Muscle Activation Strategies in Healthy and Injured Achilles Tendon Conditions. Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2015, p. (Studies in Sport, Physical Education and Health) ISSN 0356-1070; 222) ISBN 978-951-39-6167-1 (nid.) ISBN 978-951-39-6168-8 (PDF) Achilles tendon transmits triceps surae muscle force to the foot and is one of the strongest tendons in human body. Despite...

We as regional anesthesiologists often use peripheral nerve blocks as a modality for intraoperative analgesia, but it is not well understood whether regional anesthesia can play a role beyond simple interruption of peripheral nerve conduction. Several published manuscripts in recent years on the potential non-analgesic applications of regional anesthesia encourage us to expand its role from int...

To the Editor: An 84-year-old woman with a history of end-stage renal disease presented to the hospital with abdominal pain and bilious vomiting. On admission, she was found to have significant elevation in serum aminotransferases (AST 5 367 U/L and ALT 5 639 U/L,) and marginal elevation in alkaline phosphatase level (171 U/L). Basic metabolic panel was at her baseline. A thorough investigation...

Temperature changes occur in nature faster than other stressors. Plants due to inability to move and change their position, are exposed to extensive variations in daily or seasonal temperature, and therefore, should quickly and effectively adapt to temperature stress. In order to study the effects of heat stress on physiological traits of forage maize hybrids, a factorial split plot experiment ...

We present fabrication and characterization of tungsten (W) heaters for thermo-optic tuning on silicon-on-insulator (SOI). The waferscale fabrication of these thermal tuners was done using standard complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) back-end fabrication materials and processes. Static and transient characterizations of heaters are presented. ©2014 Optical Society of America OCIS cod...

For the last few years school teachers in Malaysia have access to ICT tools in their schools. However, these tools are used mostly for record keeping and word processing purposes. An in-depth study to identify the problems of using ICT in the classroom is currently being done to elicit information concerning the needs of secondary school teachers in the Northern region of Malaysia. This researc...

There have been many efforts to adjust temperature-dependent wavelength shift (TDWS) of a photonic waveguide device using a cladding material with a negative thermo-optic coefficient (TOC) differently from a core material with a positive TOC (Kokubun et al., 1998; Lee et al., 2007, 2008; Alipour et al., 2010; Guha et al., 2013; Bovington et al., 2014; Lee, 2014). Polymers have been popularly us...