Background: Careers and the family are considered the most important aspects of adult life, which affect a couplechr('39')s mental health. The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of emotion-focused couple therapy on improving optimism and communication patterns among couples working at state offices of the Ramhormoz County. Materials and Methods: The research method was experi...

Background: Neck mass is one of the most common clinical findings in all age groups. Differential diagnosis of masses includes a range of pathologies from congenital to infectious or neoplasm. Understanding the risk factors of neck masses can help us to assess them properly. The purpose of this study is to obtain the epidemiological and clinical features of different neck masses in Kerman, Iran...

background: breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. prostate‑specifc antigen  (psa) is a marker of prostate gland malignancy, which has been considered in cases with breast cancer in recent years. the goal of this study was to determine total and free psa levels in cases with malignant and benign breast lesions. methods:   in  this case–control study, ninety women with histological pr...

We discuss the effects of rotation on the evolution of accreting carbon-oxygen white dwarfs, with the emphasis on possible consequences in Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) progenitors. Starting with a slowly rotating white dwarf, we consider the accretion of matter and angular momentum from a quasi-Keplerian accretion disk. Numerical simulations with initial white dwarf masses of 0.8, 0.9 and 1.0 M⊙ a...

We present detailed evolutionary calculations for carbon oxygen and helium core white dwarf models with masses ranging from M = 0.1 to M = 1.2 M⊙ and for metallicities Z = 0.001 and Z = 0. The sequences cover a wide range of hydrogen envelopes as well. We have taken fully into account finite temperature effects by means of a detailed white dwarf evolutionary code, in which updated radiative opa...

We present detailed evolutionary calculations for carbon oxygen and helium core white dwarf models with masses ranging from M = 0.1 to M = 1.2 M⊙ and for metallicities Z = 0.001 and Z = 0. The sequences cover a wide range of hydrogen envelopes as well. We have taken finite temperature effects fully into account by means of a detailed white dwarf evolutionary code, in which updated radiative opa...

We report on Keck optical BVRI images and spectroscopy of the companion of the binary millisecond pulsar PSR J0218+4232. A faint bluish (V = 24.2, B − V = 0.25) counterpart is observed at the pulsar location. Spectra of this counterpart reveal Balmer lines which confirm that the companion is a Helium–core white dwarf. We find that the white dwarf has a temperature of Teff = 8060 ± 150 K. Unfort...

The aim of the Degenerate Objects around Degenerate Objects (DODO) survey is to search for very low mass brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets in wide orbits around white dwarfs via direct imaging. The direct detection of such companions would allow the spectroscopic investigation of objects with temperatures much lower (< 500 K) than the coolest brown dwarfs currently observed. These ultra–low m...