aims: job rotation is considered as one of the human resource development methods. this study was carried out to investigate the correlation between job rotation and visiting number of environmental health employees. materials & methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was done on environmental health employees in three health centers of north, north west and east of tehran in 2011. 42 p...

sensitive skin is a frequently mentioned cosmetic complaint. addition of a biomimetic of neuromediator has recently appeared as a promising new way to cure skin care product problems. this study was aimed to assess the inhibitory effect of a biomimetic lipopeptide derived from proopiomelanocortin (bpomc) on capsaicin-induced sensory irritation in human volunteers and also to compare its protect...

background: encephalitozoon cuniculi is a microsporidian parasite commonly found in rabbits that can infect humans, causing encephalitozoonosis. our objective in this study was to evaluate the seroprevalence of this parasite in rabbits and humans in china. methods: overall, 300 serum samples each from clinically healthy rabbit and hu-man were collected from three regions of china (sichuan provi...

hazardous chemicals may enter the body by inhalation, ingestion, injection or dermal absorption. these exposure routes constitute the overall exposure burden on the body. most occupational exposure studies have focused on measurement of the concentration of air-borne contaminants and other possible routes of exposure are often overlooked. several studies have already highlighted the importance ...

conclusions use of inhalational anesthesia has increased in adult cardiac surgery and has proved to reduce duration of elective ventilation, decrease icu and hospital los, and mortality. inhalational anesthetics are less well-studied in cchd. in the current study, desflurane was chosen because of its low solubility, decreased recovery time and lack of metabolism or organ system toxicities. alth...

considering the nonlinear hyperelastic or viscoelastic nature of soft tissues has an important effect on modeling results. in medicalapplications, accounting nonlinearity begets an ill posed problem, due to absence of external force. myocardium can be consideredas a hyperelastic material, and variational approaches are proposed to estimate stiffness matrix, which take into account the linearand...