Old-age disability has become a public health concern. This study was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of disability and its related factors among the elderly population in Kashan city, Islamic Republic of Iran. A cross-sectional study was conducted on a multistage random sample of 350 elderly people. The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule II was used as the disability...

1Department of Internal Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. 2Endocrine and Metabolism Research Centre, Nemazee Hospital, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received: 11/04/02; accepted: 02/02/03 ABSTRACT To assess the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) associated with hyperhomocysteinaemia (hyper-Hcy) and hyperlipidaemia, we performed a case–contr...

1Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, School of Health, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to S.M.T. Ayatollahi: [email protected]). Received: 18/09/02; accepted: 07/10/03 ABSTRACT With increasing life expectancy, menopause is an increasingly important aspect of women’s health. We recorded the age at natural menopause among women...

M. Kargarfard1, A. Shariat2, E. Lam3, B. Shaw4, I. Shaw4,5 and A. Shariat6 1Department of Sport Physiology, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran 2Department of Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra, Malaysia 3Department of Health and Human Performance, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 4Dep...

Iran’s June 2009 elections set into motion four processes that are central to the operations of the Islamic Republic regime. They include: the growing gap between large sections of Iranian society from the Islamic Republican state; the steady militarization of the political system; the unprecedented degree to which the Supreme Leader has become an active partisan in the increasingly bitter poli...

Shiraz (Islamic Republic of Iran): Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) organized the Second International Conference of Chief Editors of Research Journals at the ISC Campus here on December 1st and 2nd 2014. It was attended by Chief Editors and representatives from Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Malaysia besides Iran. After the welcome address by Dr. M.R. Falahati from the Regional ...

Sajad Farokhia,b,∗, Jan Flussera, Usman Ullah Sheikhc a Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences, 18208, Prague 8, Czech Republic b Faculty of Computer Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, 85141-43131, Najafabad, Iran cDigital Signal and Image Processing Research Group, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, J...

Lappeenranta University of Technology Department of Information Technology Fatemeh Ahmadi Zeleti THE PROGRESS AND OBSTACLES OF IMPLEMENTING AND IMPROVING E-GOVERNMENT IN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN Master’s Thesis 2010 89 pages, 4 figures, 15 tables Examiners: Professor, Ph.D. Kari Smolander Supervisor: Associate Professor D.Sc (Tech.) Erja Mustonen-Ollila

Authors: Jogender Mehla, Jamshid Faraji, Takashi Saito, Takaomi C Saido, Majid H. Mohajerani and Robert J. McDonald Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, Gorgan, Islamic Republic of Iran. Laboratory for Proteolytic Neuroscience, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, W...

It was revealed that in the Tabriz region of the Islamic Republic of Iran the total amount of selenium in the poultry food and water was respectively 0.052+/-0.006 mg/kg and 0.008+/-0.001 mg/l. It is less than norm accepted in literature for poultry. That why selenium supplementation in the food allowances of poultry can positively effect on level of their productivity.