Background and Objectives: A retrospective study was done to report the incidence of mandibular fractures in children up to fifteen years of age seen in Rizgaree teaching hospital /Erbil / Kurdistan region of Iraq. Methods: The patient’s records of 62 injured child aged 0-15 years, from 1/1/ 2002 to 31/12/2008 were retrieved and relevant data was recorded and analysed. A data collection sheet w...

Background: The pattern of wrinkles on the lips has individual characteristics and the study of Lip print helps in identifying the persons based on the lips traces. Aim: To find the incidence of different types of lip patterns, the dominant pattern amongst the Rohtak population, to assess the differences in lip patterns among males and females in Rohtak population. Materials and Methods: Lip pr...

Identifying the most important factors for predicting academic performance of pharmacy students is of considerable interest to pharmacy educators. The purpose of this study was to identify significant factors that predicted academic performance of first year pharmacy students at the University of Georgia. Objectives of the study included: (i) evaluating factors that were believed to predict fir...

As the discipline of functional neuroimaging grows there is an increasing interest in meta analysis of brain imaging studies. A typical neuroimaging meta analysis collects peak activation coordinates (foci) from several studies and identifies areas of consistent activation. Most imaging meta analysis methods only produce null hypothesis inferences and do not provide an interpretable fitted mode...

Emergency visits are rising nationally, whereas the number of emergency departments is shrinking. However, volume has not increased uniformly at all emergency departments. It is unclear what factors account for this variability in emergency volume growth rates. The objective of this study was to test the association of hospital and population characteristics and the effect of hospital closures ...

Community health centers (CHCs) have an impressive record of addressing health disparities through consistently delivering high-quality and affordable care in a culturally competent manner, while also producing cost savings to the nation’s healthcare system. Thus CHCs are optimally positioned to reduce visual health disparities and improve visual health outcomes by being included in the primary...

Objective: This study was carried out to know the awareness of non-psychiatric clinicians working in teaching tertiary hospital regarding psychiatric problems in their practice and their reference to psychiatric consulting doctors. Methods: The study population consists of clinicians available in the tertiary hospital. A structured questionnaire was designed for the study consisting of 9 questi...

In collaboration with its partners in the public health and aging services communities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Care and Aging Studies Branch has developed and validated a brief set of health-related quality of life (CDC HRQOL) measures for tracking the perceived physical and mental health of adults over time. For the past 12 years, these measures -- also cal...

Demand Response (DR) is often regarded as the killer application of the emerging smart grid. Recently, the rapidly growing Internet population aggrandizes the size and the number of data centers. The energy issues of data centers have drawn a lot of attention lately. The programmable workload dispatching and scheduling of modern servers make data centers auspicious candidates with great potenti...

background: the global burden of sexually transmitted infections (stis) is noticeable and important. however, most stis are curable and all of them are preventable. in this article, we reviewed and evaluated sti prevalence, current services, existing programs, and the challenges of control and management them in iran. materials and methods: the author searched literature published from 2005 to ...