The earliest reports on urolithiasis in Iranian children in 1980s revealed calcium oxalate and ammonium acid urate were the most common components of urinary calculi.1-3 Since then there have been increasing numbers of published studies about the risk factors of urolithiasis in Iranian children. A cross-sectional study conducted by Akhavan and coworkers4 showed the incidence of urinary calculi ...

The incidence of type 2 diabetes is increasing worldwide, resulting in large measure from the increasing prevalence of obesity (Yale, 2000). Diabetes mellitus is a pandemic disease and is one of the main threats to human health (Narayan, 2005). In 2003, 194 million people world‐ wide, ranging in age from 20 to 79 years, had diabetes. It is projected that this number will be increased by 72% to ...

Galanthamine, an isoquinoline alkaloid and the current drug of choice for treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer disease, is mainly obtained from Amaryllidaceae members. At present, the production of galanthamine from available natural plant sources is not sufficient to meet the demands of pharmaceutical industry. Additionally, overexploitation of the plant material leads to the depletion of a...

Traditionally, neuropsychologists have studied selective impairments in patients who suffered brain damage as adults. These selective impairments have revealed much about cognitive organization in normal brains (Shallice, 1988; Zeki, 1993) and have initiated major research programmes (Forde & Humphreys, 2002; Milner & Goodale, 1995; Shallice, 1988; Yin, 1969; Zeki, 1993). In addition, analysis ...

The Relationship between Parenting Styles, Students’ Psychological Well-being and Hardiness F. Hamidi, Ph.D. S. Ansari, M.A. This study examined the relationship between parenting styles, psychological well-being, and hardiness in children. The study was descriptive and correlational. The population of the study consisted of all high school girls in Kuhdasht in Lorestan P...

To THE EDITOR: A 58-year-old male patient who was diagnosed as having borderline borderline leprosy with a bacterial index of 2.0 was started on multidrug therapy (MDT) with dapsone, rifampin and clofazimine on the schedule recommended by the World Health Organization. Baseline investigations ruled out the possibility of any systemic illness before MDT was started. He gave no clinical history o...

A Contourlet transform, an expansion of a wavelet transform, is a double filter bank structure composed of Laplacian Pyramid and directional filter banks. Several wavelet filters of preferable performance have been developed for wavelet transforms, e.g. CDF (Cohen, Daubechies and Feauveau) 9/7 filter. However, there is still only a limited number of wavelet filters applicable for Contourlet tra...

Objective: HYBID (Hyaluronan Binding Protein Involved in HA Depolymerization, KIAA1199) is a hyaluronan (HA) binding protein, which involves in depolymerization of HA. It is reported that HYBID mRNA is expressed in the lung, heart, skin and brain in murine and human. However, the role of HYBID in the brain remains unclear. In this study, we have made HYBID KO mice and evaluated its function in ...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of Anxiety and Depression and its association in a rural area of Sindh, Pakistan. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted at Ansari Para, in Tehsil Hala, Sindh province in Pakistan, using the Aga Khan University Anxiety and Depression Scale Urdu Version. RESULTS Out of a total of 260 people interviewed, 112 people (43.1%) were screened to have anxiety...

This study is about the behavior of a fully developed incompressible reactive Power law fluid in steady flow between two insulated parallel plates. Both plates are kept at the same temperature, T0. It is assumed that the heat is generated by a chemical reaction term, which is uniformly distributed throughout the volume along with the viscous heating due to the reactive nature of the fluid. The ...