In 2009 and 2010, a series of measles outbreaks, involving different age groups, occurred in rural areas of the Chabahar district in southeast Iran. These outbreaks raised questions regarding the effectiveness of immunization programs in these areas. To determine the most important factors leading to these outbreaks, and to determine the effectiveness of the measles vaccination program, the...

Objective: The purpose of the present study was investigation of eight weeks high intensity interval (HIIT) along with curcumin supplementation on liver Glutathione Peroxidase (GPX) Activity & Malondialdehyde (MDA) Concentration among diabetic male rats. Materials and Methods: Thirty-two male mice were divided to four groups of control-diabetic, exercise-diabetic, supplementary-diabetic, and e...

BACKGROUND The aim of the STRIPES trial was to assess the effectiveness of providing supplementary, remedial teaching and learning materials (and an additional 'kit' of materials for girls) on a composite of language and mathematics test scores for children in classes two, three and four in public primary schools in villages in the Nagarkurnool division of Andhra Pradesh, India. METHODS STRIP...

In the context of competitive classroom settings and relativistic assessment schedules, some groups of students may particularly benefit from an emphasis on personal progress and personal growth approaches to their academic development. Building on recent promising results from general samples of high school students (undifferentiated by academically at-risk sub-groups within them) and dominant...

two-year experiments was conducted to find the effect of value and times of supplementary irrigation on water requirement and yield production of three new wheat cultivar namely (‘w33g’, ‘cross alborz’ and ‘bahar’) in three replicate randomized complete block factorial experiments since 2009-11. experiments were performed at the campus of agriculture and natural resources of razi university lys...

There has been growing interest regarding the 'medical humanities' in most medical schools in Korea. Medical humanities is an interdisciplinary field of humanities, social science, and the arts that aims to have a critical or supplementary role in medical education and practice. Thus, diverse educational methods should be applied to achieve the goals of medical humanities. The illness narrative...

Correspondence to: E Herrett [email protected] Extra material supplied by the author (see http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f2350?tab=related#webextra) Supplementary figures 1-4 Supplementary table 1 Supplementary table 2 Supplementary table 3 Supplementary table 4 Supplementary table 5 Supplementary table 6 Supplementary table 7 Supplementary table 8 Supplementary table 9 Supplementar...

This article describes a 2-3 day workshop offered at regional undergraduate teaching institutions and high schools. Its goal is to use discrete dynamic models, in particular Boolean networks, to illustrate mathematical modeling of biological networks, such as gene regulatory networks, to a broad audience that can include undergraduate faculty, undergraduate students, high school teachers, and e...

During the past decade Georgia has received strong international support for education reform, and it represents an interesting case by which the effectiveness of particular interventions in the region can be assessed. Most attempts to analyse progress within the system have so far been concentrated on two aspects of formal education: private and public schools. This article analyses the dynami...