Measurements of height and weight are important data source relating to growth and development, puberty, and nutritional status of children and adolescents. In clinical setting, the charts of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), USA, are used in Iran. A survey identified significant differences in weight- and height-for-age across provinces, between urban and rural children. Althou...

Y. D. Wang,* V. D. Rodrı́guez,2, C. D. Lin,3, C. L. Cocke, S. Kravis, M. Abdallah, 1 and R. Dörner J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-2601 Departamento de Fı́sica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina The Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440 Institut f...

S. T. Cundiff,1 B. C. Collings,2,3 N. N. Akhmediev,4 J. M. Soto-Crespo,5 K. Bergman,2 and W. H. Knox3 1JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 3Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, New Jersey 07733 4Australian Photonics Cooperative Re...

Babak Mostaghaci1,2, Arash Hanifi3, Brigitta Loretz1 and Claus-Michael Lehr1,4 1Dept. of Drug Delivery (DDEL), Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infectious Research (HZI) Saarland University, Saarbruecken 2Biomaterials Group, Materials Engineering Department Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 3Tissue Imaging and Spectroscopy Lab, Bioeng...

1 Department of Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Psychiatry, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 4 Iranian National Center of Addiction Studies (IN...

1Department of Pediatrics, Nursing and Midwifery School, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IR Iran 2Department of Medical and Surgical Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery School, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IR Iran 3Health Research Centre, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran 4Department of Nursing, Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences, Ilam Universi...

INTRODUCTION Electronic medical record system (EMRS) is a valuable system for safe access to the patient's data and increases health care quality. Manpower is one of the requirements for EMRS, among which manager is the most important person in any hospital. Taking into account manager's positive attitude and good commitments, EMRS will be implemented successfully. As such, we decided to assess...

Plants are the most common bioindicatorsused in air quality biomonitoring studies because they are immobile and they have more sensitive to the most prevalent air pollutants than humans and animals. To identify the concentrations and sources of heavy metals in ornamental plants of Isfahan landscape, samples of leaves and soil around Pinuseldarica and Nerium oleander were collected at different ...