background: rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is a systemic and inflammatory disease of unknown etiology which is mostly characterized by inflammation of the synovial joints. studies have proved that most people with ra avoid doing physical activities due to fear that it may worsen the pain or cause pressure on joints, resulting in decreased muscle strength and ultimately leading to disability of patie...

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Breast cancer is the second most common neoplasia and the first leading cause of cancer death among women in the world (1). Early diagnosis of breast cancer plays a critical role in reducing mortality rates and improving the patient's prognosis (2, 3). Mammography is an ex...

objective: the present study aimed to explore the relationship between worry and obsessive compulsive symptoms. we examined the correlations between the padua inventory (pi) and the penn state worry questionnaire (pswq) to further explore the distinctiveness of the pi. method: seventy-five subjects (n=40 male, n= 35 female) were selected from hafez hospital (iran) for this study: the subjects i...

conclusions this study revealed the noticeable popularity of cam in patients suffering from chronic rheumatologic diseases, mostly due to their dissatisfaction with conventional treatments. patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, 100 randomly selected patients, with different diseases, were questioned about demographic data, disease duration, the type of cam used, reasons, visit int...

the ghazals of hafiz and the canzoniere of petrarch (1304–1374) have at least three common characteristics: (a) from the qualitative point of view: each of these two works is at the top of the medieval love poetry: one in the persian literature, and the other in the european literature; (b) from the chronological point of view: these two books of poetry have been written during the fourteen the...

search for the cup of jamshid from me, years my heart made. and for what it possessed, from a stranger, entreaty made. a jewel that is beyond the shell of existence and of time, from those lost on the shore of the sea, search it made. last night, i took my difficulty to the pir of the magians. who, by strengthening of sight, the solving of sublety made. him, happy, laughing, wine-goblet in hand...

introduction: there is a great deal of controversy regarding the effect of gestational magnesium (mg) deficiency on fetal growth and the incidence of low birth weight (lbw) in infants. therefore, this study aimed to delineate the possible relationship between maternal mg level and infant lbw. methods: this case-control study was conducted on 180 mothers in shiraz, iran. fasting blood samples we...

Bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) virus is maintained in the environment by persistently infected animals (Derget & Loewen, 1995). The BVD virus in an immunocompetent pregnant animal is capable of crossing the placental barrier and invading the foetus (Kahrs 1973, Done et al. 1980). The principal determinant of foetal response to infection is the age of the foetus at the time of infection (Baker 198...

GREGOIRE, P. E. J. 1985. Behavior of family and other social groups in wintering and migrating Lesser Snow Geese. M.S. thesis, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. HARAMIS, G. M., J. D. NICHOLS, K. H. POLLACK, AND J. E. HINES. 1986. The relationship between body mass and survival of wintering Canvasbacks. Auk 103:506-514. HEPP, G. R., R. J. BLOHM, R. E. REYNOLDS, J. E. HINES, AND J. D. NI...

Transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) has previously been implicated as a potential negative autocrine or paracrine growth regulator of certain cell types (Arteaga, C. L., R. J. Coffey, Jr., T. C. Dugger, C. M. McCutchen, H. L. Moses, and R. M. Lyons. 1990. Cell Growth & Differ. 1:367-374; Hafez, M. M., D. Infante, S. Winawer, and E. Friedman. 1990. Cell Growth & Differ. 1:617-626; Gli...