IRAN: A STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS Morteza Arab-Zozani, Habib Jalilian, Mina Mahami Oskouei, Mohammad Dehghanian, Zoleikha Asadi Aghbalaghi. School of management and medical informatics, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; School of management and medical informatics, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, Tabriz Universi...

The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing personality traits among athletic Iranian and non-Iranian students studying at Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin. 280 athletic Iranian and non-Iranian students (130 Iranians, 40 Syrians, 80 Afghans, and 30 Yemenis) were picked using Stratified Random Sampling method, and they completed NEO-FFI (a shortened form of revised bi...

Pain is a universal complaint, which needs further investigations for new pain relieving agents. Carum copticum (L.) Sprague ex Turrill is a plant in Umbelliferae family, which is mentioned to have some therapeutic effects on headache and joint pains in Iranian traditional literature, but there are not enough scientific reports to prove its effects on pain. So, we conducted to design an experim...

Sakineh HajEbrahimi, Ali Janati, Edris Hasanpoor, Morteza Arab-Zozani, Mobin Sokhanvar, Fariba Pashzadeh, Elaheh HaghGoshyie. Professor of urology, Iranian EBM Centre of Excellence, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Associate professor of Healthcare Management, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management (IceHM), Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Ph.D...

versity, Frankfurt am Main. Originally more than 100 abstracts were submitted to the conference, from which 36 were selected for oral presentations and 19 for poster presentations. A number of contributors to the conference subsequently submitted their papers for publication in this issue of Orientalia Suecana, and after the reviewing process, the seven papers below were finally selected for pu...

The physician's acquittal has obsessed Iranian legislator's mind to a large extent. This is exclusively observed in Iranian statuses and specifically in Shi'ite school of though. Muslim jurists' opinions play a very important role in enacting legal articles related to it. After reviewing the literature, the authors tried to pick and collect common features of physician's responsibilities and du...

Objective: This study aimed to provide a normative study documenting how 114 five-seven year-old non-‎patient Iranian children respond to the Rorschach test. We compared this especial sample to ‎international normative reference values for the Comprehensive System (CS).‎ Method: One hundred fourteen 5- 7- year-old non-patient Iranian children were recruited from public ‎schools. Using five chil...

Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV) infects many cucurbit species in the world and causing mottle and systemic mosaic symptoms on cucurbitaceous plant leaves. During a survey, Out of 198 samples of cucurbit plants that were collected from the different fields and cucumber greenhouses in khorasan province, 39 samples were infected by CGMMV in DAS-ELISA using specific polyclonal antibody (...

BACKGROUND Once considered as the main public health problem in developed countries, obesity has become a major problem throughout the world and developing countries, like Iran, are joining the global obesity pandemic. We determined the prevalence of overweight, obesity, and hypertension in a large cohort of Iranians and compared age-adjusted rates with the rates in the US. METHODS Golestan C...

Richard Stone wrote a report regarding selling theses and research articles in Iran. There are noteworthy points in this report which truly disturb the Iranian scientific community, but the present report is not the whole truth about the Iranian scientific community. Iran's scientific infrastructure was destroyed in the eight-year imposed war by Saddam Hossein in a way that production of Irania...