Background: Physiotherapy services constitute a principle part of health care systems, and interest in their use has increased in the recent decades.  This study was conducted to investigate the utilization and OOP payment for physiotherapy services in public hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran.    Methods: This cross-sectional study was c...

It is the purpose of this study to develop a method to define sequential episodes of patient care. We will use data from a cohort of patients with heart problems and diabetes. We will focus on the condition of congestive heart failure, a co-morbid disease of diabetes that is progressive and irreversible. The biggest problem is to determine where one episode ends and another begins. We start wit...

Background: Human cornea expresses functional Fas-ligand capable of killing Fas+ activated lymphocytes. Fas expression is partly regulated by -670 A/G polymorphism in the promoter region of Fas gene. Objective: The aim of the present study is to determine the association between Fas-670A/G polymorphism and survival of corneal transplantation. Methods: In 276 graft recipients who mainly underwen...

We build a two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model with one-sided substitutability between fossil carbon and biocarbon. One shock only, the discovery of the technology to use fossil fuels, leads to a transition from an inital pre-industrial phase to three following phases: a pure fossil carbon phase, a mixed fossil and biocarbon phase and an absorbing biocarbon phase. The increased competi...

In [BCGM01] we have generalized the Knuth-Morris-Pratt (KMP) pattern matching algorithm and defined a nonconventional kind of RAM, the MP–RAMs which model more closely the microprocessor operations, and designed an O(n) on-line algorithm for solving the serial episode matching problem on MP–RAMs when there is only one single episode. We here give two extensions of this algorithm to the case whe...

background: monitoring of phenotypic characteristics of t-lymphocytes in peripheral blood is commonly performed to give the clinical parameters in the management of kidney transplant recipients.   objective: to predict rejection in renal transplantation by immune parameters. methods: 16 non-diabetic kidney transplant candidates (4 females and 12 males, age = 20-65 yr, first time transplant) wer...