فهرست مطالب fatemeh yousefi

Usually, asset prices react sensitively to economic news. Experience has shown that the price of capital assets is affected by a wide range of unforeseen events and the effect of some of these events is greater than other events. Identifying the role of different financial shocks in terms of real purchasing power in the occurrence of business cycles is one of the attractive fields of experimental works in the field of macroeconomics. After the recent financial crisis (2007-2008), attention has been paid to the financial sector in explaining macroeconomic fluctuations. In this research, we seek to identify the role of financial sector shocks (credit supply shocks, housing price shocks and stock market shocks) along with real and monetary sector shocks (aggregate supply shocks, aggregate demand shocks, monetary and capital policy shocks). investment with regard to the real purchase option in reducing financial shocks in macroeconomic fluctuations. In order to identify the structure of different shocks, the vector autoregression model with sign restriction has been used. Two main models have been estimated using Bayesian method and seasonal data for the period of 1991:1-2023:4. The findings of this study indicate that financial shocks, especially credit supply shocks, have considerable importance in reducing financial shocks in macroeconomic fluctuations. Also, the evidence indicates that financial shocks have played a stronger role in explaining the recent recession in Iran's financial markets.

Non-verbal communication is a communication that conveys concepts and meanings through non-verbal and speech. messagesNon-verbal messages are more powerful than verbal messages. Body language, non-verbal communication andIt is our non-verbal communication that we use in each of our interactions with others. Body language includedPeople's messages are with looks, facial expressions and gestures that help the reader to understand the text in literary texts.slow "Paul Ekman" and "Walce Friesen" have done extensive research in the field of non-verbal activitiesTheir goal is to better understand people's emotions and behavior. They non-verbal activities in three waysThey have analyzed "origin-encoding-use". This research with descriptive-analytical method based on approachesMentioned from "Ekman and Friesen" body language in the novel Al-Shahaz, which is the work of Najib Mahfouz, including; face languageThe language of gaze and head gestures has been described and examined. The results obtained from the analysis of language samplesThe body in this novel shows that the origin of facial language, which has a high frequency in the novel, is intrinsic.Its encoding is instinctive and its use is informational.

The aim of this study was to investigate the components and educational goals of local indigenous games with a qualitative method based on the results of related research. The research approach was qualitative and its method was traditional research in which the research is classified into the forms system selection and clear analysis. The study corpus included articles related to local indigenous games since 2006. From 120 articles collected in a targeted manner, 39 articles were selected based on data saturation. The beginning of the theory and the main themes of employment were coded and classified. The results showed that the conceptual model included categories related to learning component which had three logics governing the goals of indigenous-local games included pay attention to all dimension and human evolution, coherence between national unity and multicultural, individual and social education.

Nursing students who are forced to make decisions at the patient's bedside in critical situations need a good internal ego strength to pass their student life and succeed in their career. Therefore, Therefore, the present study is aimed to investigate to investigate the pattern of enhancing the inner strength of the ego based on the decision-making styles and tolerance of emotional distress with the mediation of mindfulness in the female nursing students of the Islamic Azad University of Ahvaz, which was conducted in the academic year 2021-2022.

This research was correlational type using causal modeling and structural equation modeling. The statistical population of this research includes all nursing students of Islamic Azad University in the academic year of 2001-2001. The sample of the present study included 220 people who were selected by purposive sampling method. In order to measure the variables, the internal strength questionnaires of Lewis and Dingley et al. (2003), the decision-making styles questionnaire of Scott and Bruce (1995), the emotional distress tolerance questionnaire of Simmons and Gaher (2005), and the mindfulness scale of Brown and Ryan (2003), was used. In this research, Pearson's correlation method and path analysis were used and its results were analyzed. To analyze the data, Pearson correlation and structural equation modeling were used using SPSS-23 and AMOS-23 software.

The statistical results showed that intuitive, dependent, avoidant and mindfulness decision-making styles have a direct effect on the inner strength of the ego, and logical, intuitive, avoidant and emotional distress tolerance decision-making styles have a direct effect on mindfulness (p<0.01). Also, the results indicate the significance of the indirect path of logical, intuitive, avoidant decision-making styles and tolerance of emotional distress to the inner strength of the ego with the mediating role of mindfulness of nursing students (p<0.01).

The results of this research showed that the final research model fits the collected data. Therefore, the attention of education centers, and higher education centers to the role of effective factors in promoting the inner strength of the ego and creating a healthy career background, especially for nurses, is one of the necessities of this research.

The purpose of this research was to investigate the causal model of predicting academic procrastination based on parental roots and components of self-discrepancy with the mediating role of sense of belonging to school. The statistical population was all female students studying in the ninth grade of the first period of secondary school in the year 1400-1401 in Nahavand city. The research sample consisted of 312 people, which was obtained by Cochran's formula and random cluster sampling method. The tools used in this research were academic procrastination questionnaire, sense of belonging to school, parental roots and self-discrepancy questionnaire. The results of structural equations showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the components of parental roots, self-discrepancy, and sense of belonging to school with academic procrastination (P≥0.001). It also showed that 31% of the variance of academic procrastination is explained by the components of parental roots, incongruence and sense of belonging, and 13% of the variance of the sense of belonging is explained by parental roots. All path coefficients in the model are significant. According to the findings of the research, the need to pay attention to academic procrastination as one of the important and influential dimensions in the academic performance of students is raised more than ever. Therefore, it is recommended that educational psychologists and educational counselors formulate a suitable educational program to reduce academic procrastination in students and teach them ways to improve incompatible schemas, self-discrepancy components, and also increase the sense of belonging to school.

Aluminum phosphide poisoning has a high mortality rate because of the production of phosphine gas and refractory hypotension. Based on the effect of dihydroxyacetone on the treatment of hypotension and reduction of cytochrome C oxidase, the effects of dihydroxyacetone on the level of oxidative stress factors and histology of heart and liver tissue in aluminum phosphide-poisoned male rats were investigated.

In this study, 24 rats were randomly divided into 4 groups including control (corn oil), aluminum phosphide (15 mg/kg), dihydroxyacetone (50 mg/kg) and also poisoned and treated group (aluminum phosphide (15 mg/kg) + dihydroxyacetone (50 mg/kg)). After 24 hours, the animals were sacrificed and the blood, plasma, heart, and liver samples were collected then oxidative stress factors and histology of the heart and liver were investigated.

Aluminum phosphide poisoning increased lipid peroxidation in red blood cells (p=0.001) and liver tissue (p=0.023) and also increased protein carbonylation in plasma (p =0.005) and red blood cells (p=0.001). After administration of dihydroxyacetone, lipid peroxidation in red blood cells (p=0.001) and liver (p=0.001) and carbonylation of proteins in red blood cells (p=0.003) and plasma (p=0.019) decreased. No significant change was observed in total plasma antioxidant capacity, carbonylation levels of the liver and heart, and lipid peroxidation in heart tissue. In addition, treatment with dihydroxyacetone significantly improved the histological changes in liver and heart tissue.

Dihydroxyacetone not only prevents phosphine-induced deaths but also improves oxidative stress and histology of liver and heart tissue.

Due to the widespread use of information systems, a large amount of data has been stored in organizations, and the analysis of this data is a valuable resource to help organizations making better decisions. This concept is known as business intelligence (BI) and is one of the most important factors for the success of organizations in the contemporary world. Given the importance of BI, it is necessary to systematically review the research conducted in Iran on it. The purpose of this research is to identify the topics researched in selected journals, analyze the dispersion and frequency of studies, identify research methods, the purpose of articles, the level of analysis of BI research and finally identify research gaps and provide the future research suggestions. The research was conducted by analyzing secondary data and systematically mapping the existing knowledge of BI in 6 selected databases. For this purpose, 2108 articles were reviewed and in the initial review, 1274 articles were selected and 91 articles were approved by studying the abstracts. Finally, considering the exclusion criteria, 81 final articles were selected and analyzed. The results show that the most thematic coverage of BI in these journals was the specific topic of knowledge management and general topic was BI tools with 44.45%. The most used research method was descriptive-survey with 34.57%, the most purpose was practical with 82.71% and the highest level of analysis used was community analysis with 66.66%. Finally, research gaps were presented in the form of future research suggestions.

Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) is one of the major causes of mortality in preterm newborns. Regarding the close association between inflammatory pathways and the occurrence of RDS, the present study aimed to determine the serum level of interleukin-10 (IL-10) in premature neonates with and without RDS.
In this case-control study, the serum level of IL-10 was assessed by immunoassay method in both groups of 30 premature neonates with RDS and 28 newborns without RDS as controls. Statistical analysis was conducted to compare potential variations among premature neonates with or without RDS.
The mean level of IL-10 was significantly higher in neonates with RDS, compared to the non-RDS group (41.20±75.78 pg/ml versus 7.73±14.31 pg/ml, P=0.014, respectively). The IL-10 was significantly higher in non-survived neonates, compared to survived newborns (178.76±69.67 pg/ml vs. 6.81±4.06 pg/ml, P=0.0001). In multivariate linear regression analysis, the presence of RDS was associated with the increased level of serum IL-10 (Beta=1.038, P=0.001).
This study revealed that the increased serum levels of IL-10 in premature neonates with RDS might be considered an early indicator of fatal outcomes with high specificity.

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were phyto-synthesized using Typha azerbaijanensis aerial part and root extracts, and their biological activities were investigated.

This study was conducted in the Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran in 2019. In this experimental study, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were phyto-synthesized and the physicochemical properties of AgNPs were determined using UV-Vis (UV-Vis) spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Antibacterial and anticancer activity of synthesized AgNPs was determined using microdilution assay, and MTT 3- (4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide) methods, respectively. The apoptotic effects of AgNPs were investigated using Real-Time PCR and flow cytometry techniques.

Morphological analysis of the synthesized AgNPs confirmed the spherical shape of AgNPs with an average size of 10.67 to 16.69 nm. The FTIR spectrum confirmed the presence of phytochemicals from T. azerbayenensis extract at the AgNP surface. Antibacterial experiments showed that phyto-fabricated AgNPs had significant antibacterial activity against Gram-negative bacteria. The AgNPs were significantly cytotoxic against breast cancer cell line (MCF-7) through induction of apoptosis.

The phyto-synthesized AgNPs had biological activities could be useful in pharmaceutical applications.

In the current study the microstructure and mechanical properties of Al-2Ni-xMn alloys was investigated as a substitute for Al-4Ni alloys. To this end, different melts containing 2 wt. % Ni and 1, 2, and 4 wt. % Mn were solidified at two cooling rates of 3.5 and 10.4 C/s. According to the results, under the low solidification rate, the tensile strength, fracture strain, and toughness of Al-2Ni-1Mn alloy are lower than those of Al-4Ni alloy by 26, 115, and 137%, respectively. However, further Mn addition impaired the tensile properties. Increasing the solidification cooling rate decreases the size and improves the distribution of Ni(Mn)-rich compounds and porosities within the microstructure and reduces the sizes of secondary dendrite arm spacing and grains. This substantially improved the mechanical properties of Mn-rich alloys. For instance, compared to Al-4Ni alloy solidified at 3.5 C/s, the tensile strength, fracture strain, and toughness of copper mold cast Al-2Ni-1Mn alloy increased by 50, 200, and 330%, respectively.

During the immediate post delivery period, women are particularly susceptible to distension of the bladder. Complementary and alternative medicine is becoming an established intervention modality within the contemporary health care system. However, very little is known about the impact of foot reflexology on the urinary system. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the most popular type of complementary therapy (the foot reflexology) on first voiding time following elective cesarean section without urinary catheter.

This experimental study was performed on 61 pregnant women in Pastor Hospital, Mashhad, Iran, who met the inclusion criteria. Accordingly, participants were randomly allotted to either treatment or control groups. The intervention group received a single 20‑min foot reflexology session at 2–3 h after the surgery. The time taken for first void was recorded by research assistant that blinded to the allocation of groups. The findings were recorded and analyzed with the SPSS software by using of Chi‑square, independent t‑test, Mann–Whitney, and Fisher exact methods P < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.

Using General Linear Model (GLM) for controlling of confounding variables, the results of t‑test showed significant differences between two groups in terms of first voiding time (P = 0.001) following surgery.

It seems that the use of foot reflexology as a nursing care plan to prevent urinary retention after cesarean section without urinary catheter does shorten first voiding time and increase maternal satisfaction.

Apocalyptic literature can be considered as a kind of idealistic literature in which the poet-writer is dissatisfied with the current state of his society and the flow of affairs and seeks to create an ideal world, a world other than the present world, using his creative imagination. In this type of literature, anxiety and political, social and religious anomalies and the inability to overcome it focuses the poet-writer view to the future, thus the present time is the source and origin of his historical consciousness and evaluate the present time from the perspective of the future. In the present article, it is tried, while examining the apocalyptic images and their components in Khalil Havi's poetry by analytical-comparative method, to match those images with the apocalyptic images of the Bible, and also to examine the effect of Khalil Havi from the Bible. From the results of this research, we can point to these two points: First, Khalil Havi in his apocalyptic images of his poetry is completely influenced by the Bible. Secondly, Khalil Havi makes his promised paradise in this world.

Certain vicissitudes are generated in the relations between photography and painting by the artists and theoreticians in their investigations about photography and its interplay with the art of painting. Early during the advent of photography, no artistic value was attached to the photographs insofar as it managed to find a home among the rest of the arts, and a long way was taken to attach an artistic value to the photographs in the courts of justice. Nonetheless, painting always predominated as fine art and a symbol of wealth, culture, and civilization. Primarily, a periodical journal printed Gustave Le Gray’s photographs entitling them as artistic pictures. Photography gradually adopted an artistic language and expression, such that today it holds a critical role in modern arts, especially land art and installations.This paper mainly seeks to investigate the course of development in the position of photography and its rivalry with painting and even its access to progressive art with a new language and expression. The main question about the position of photography versus painting is on its invention until the modern era and post-modern art. We attempt to examine what new frontiers the historical race between photography and painting artists are introduced in contemporary art. The present paper attempts to examine the position of photography in the art, and evaluate its status in reciprocity or competition versus painting by making references to the works of the artists up until the contemporary era, with an approach towards the views of the twentieth-century theoretician – Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) – about the reproducibility of artworks. Apparently, due to its flexible character and since it creates innovation, photography is turned reproducible and into a new instrument in postmodern art, such that it could be regarded as a separate art with a novel expression and as the establisher of many art styles.Since its advent, triggered by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851) in 1839, photography entered a special rivalry with painting, which has been marked by many of the philosophy theoreticians, since this visual medium or art is way too occult and constantly separating itself from the rest of the arts and outreaching them as the most important medium of expressing artistic concerns. Some artists regard photography as being specific to a certain group. However, since the advent of photography in the nineteenth century, it turned more popular and accessible than painting, meaning that many walks of people could make a self-portrait in the photo studios. Yet, painting art was still in use and accessible by the better-to-do class of society. On the other hand, many painting artists including Charles Negre (1820-1880) and Edgar Degas (1834-1917) used photographs in their paintings. This made photographers such as Edward Steichen (1879-1973) and advocates of pictorialism liken their photographs to the romantic and sometimes imaginary atmosphere of paintings to produce an identity for their works and getting them closer to the world of art.Lewis Frederick Meyer (1822-1913) and Pierre-Louis Pierson (1822-1913) were two photographers who left a significant impact on the process of turning photography into art since they accused some photographers of stealing their photographs. In that period, copyright laws were enforceable only to works of art. Therefore, it had to be proven in the court of law that photography is an art. At last, the French court ratified that photography is entitled to the same rights attributed to a work of art like painting. Pierson and Meyer published the book “Photography” to consolidate the position of photography among the rest of the arts. According to them, photography stopped groundless and uncreative painters working.Therefore, the present paper reviews the history of photography and the advent of various photography schools inspired by the painting schools and vice versa, examining the course of evolution and interplay of these two arts. From among the various views of the painting or photography artists and the relevant theoreticians, Walter Benjamin speaks seriously and severally about the newly emerging arts of his time – photography and cinema – in an essay titled “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”. In this essay, he investigates the power of reproduction in the modern age and enumerates its impacts on the arts and the popular masses. More than any other art, the power of photography and reproducibility of photographic images, attracts attention in this context. In Benjamin’s opinion, works of art have always been reproducible. “Everyone can copy works of others”. In his opinion, photography has altered the substance of art.In part seven of his essay, he explicitly emphasizes the historical disputes as to the reciprocity or competition between painting and photography, dubbing it as “devious and confused”. He believes that this dispute is a historical transformation the universal impact of which was not realized by either of the rivals (Benjamin, 1998: 216). Today, the impact of photography on the contemporary arts – some of which we have laid down in this paper – is evident to all, and it has further increased despite the technological changes.Since late in the 1970s, the work of the postmodern photographer - Cindy Sherman – called “Untitled Film Stills” (1954), and Andy Warhol’s “The Death and Disaster” painting silk-screens from 1963 to 1964 made the critiques and artists pay attention to photography as a media element in the contemporary life. In the 1970s, photography was used as a medium in many contemporary art styles, especially in the works of land art and its various principles. On the other hand, photographers also independently tried to get attuned to the postmodern artistic values - especially in the topic of the environment – by the realization or documentation of their surroundings. Modern topography images are included in the category. The impression and impressionability between photography and painting in their various styles are manifested in the works of photographers and painters, insofar as photography leaves effect in creating an artistic style like photorealism as an independent and powerful medium according to Edward Lucie-Smith as he has conceived in his book “The Globalization and the Modern Art”.In response to the study of these two arts’ position, and considering the views of Benjamin and the artistic styles emerged especially in the postmodern era, it seems that we would arrive at the answer that photography may hold a significant role in the postmodernist art by its capability of dynamism and universalism. Walter Benjamin’s views explain the importance of photography during the age of mechanical reproduction or duplication among the popular masses and its increasing role in rivaling painting in contemporary art, pointing out the extinction of originality in the art. Photography is an art that impacts other arts every day, especially in the postmodern era, and is an inseparable part of postmodern art, since splendid artworks may be created even out of the cheapest photographs, referring to the works of painters like Gerhard Richter (1932). As Walter Benjamin maintains, photography universalized the art and brought artists a novel attitude based on which one may say the art has rerouted from the concepts of originality and specialty and belonging to a certain class of the society to the direction of popularity and accommodation to the popular masses. It seems by analyzing his views that Walter Benjamin does not look at photography as something void of art, but he regards its universality as a forerunner for its artistic application. More specifically, he points to the works of Eugène Atget (1857-1927) – the nineteenth-century French photographer – who has reduced the last of the cult values of the photographs - the human portrait - and has increased its exhibitory value by taking photographs of deserted urban spaces with no human portraits and figures (Benjamin, 1998: 215). Indeed, it seems that Benjamin thinks more about the importance of the invention of photography and its impact on art and its impression on the value of art in the eyes of the popular masses. Today, the impact of photography on the contemporary arts is publicly evident and has increased more than ever despite technological changes. In Benjamin’s view, the art has lost its sanctity due to the technological advancement of photography alongside the loss of the sacred undertone of the photographs, gradually becoming accessible by the popular masses. In other words, photography has been effective in the loss of the personification undertone as an instrument of the mechanical age of artistic reproduction.Aside from Benjamin’s views, one may depict that photography worked like a catalyst in its age and managed to bring about abundant changes in the attitudes of the painters and painting art styles. It managed to dissolve and attach the antagonists to itself. Precision in details and shooting the seconds or “capturing the moments” with the help of light is a possibility painting has never been able to take benefit of in picturing the imagination, but using photography. The sanctity of the moment in daily life is undoubtedly precious, and shooting it and eternizing “a moment” that no more exists is way too valuable, and this amazing thing is difficult to be done without the medium of photography.

This study uses the phenomenological approach of place to study the place in the contemporary era, which has been portrayed by New Topography artists. This style of photography, according to human function in nature in the contemporary world, was able to reveal facts about the destruction of the earth and proved its position as an applied photography. Given the need for this method of photography in contemporary art, this study seeks to respond to the characteristics of place in this style of photography using the theoretical framework of place phenomenology from the perspective of Norberg-Schulz. The assumption that this method of photography has a phenomenological and critical view of the environment has given new meanings to it. This research explores these meanings through analytical and descriptive methods. It seems that New Topography in photography is a reflection of the anonymity and sense of the place in the contemporary era, and artists have linked the art of photography to the history of the place by recording the place of contemporary man through exploring the destruction of the environment.

Alterations in the methylation levels of tumor suppressor genes are considered as one of the essential aspects of malignancies. The present study explored the association of O6-methylguanine- DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) gene promoter methylation, as a tumor suppressor, with some organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in primary brain tumor (PBT) patients. The present study was conducted on a total of 73 PBT patients. The patients’ serum was analyzed using gas chromatography for seven OCP derivatives. The methylation-specific PCR (MSP) method was also used to determine the methylation status of the MGMT promoter. The current findings demonstrated that the methylation of MGMT promoter occurred in 22 out of 34 glioma cases (64%), but in only one out of 35 meningioma cases. No MGMT promoter methylation was observed in other PBT, hemangioma, and anaplastic medulloblastoma stages. Besides, there were significant associations between MGMT methylation and γ-HCH (odds ratio [OR]: 1.50; 95% CI: 1.03- 2.40, P= 0.04), 4,4DDE (OR: 1.44; 95% CI: 1.01- 2.05, P= 0.02), 2,4 DDT (OR: 1.23; CI: 1.04- 1.45, P= 0.03), and 4,4DDT (OR: 1.46; CI: 1.23- 2.15, P= 0.02) in glioma patients. The results of the study suggested that the hypermethylation of the MGMT promoter in glioma patients is associated with increased OCPs in their serum, especially γ- HCH, 4,4DDE, 2,4DDT, and 4,4DDT. Moreover, it may lead to the hypermethylation of the MGMT promoter gene. Hence, it can be concluded that exposure to OCPs may potentially induce glioma.

Successful aging is a positive, inner feeling and satisfaction with the past and present lives. Thus, the study was conducted to determine the predicting factors of the successful aging in a sample of Iranian elderly.

This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytic study was conducted on 291 elderly people in Qazvin in 2018 selected using two-stage cluster sampling method. Data collection was done using the demographic characteristics checklist, successful aging questionnaire and Paloutzian and Ellison Spiritual Health Questionnaire. Data analysis was conducted using descriptive tests (percentage, frequency, central and dispersion indices) and hierarchical regression model.

The sample was 291 elderly with a mean age of 68.3 (6.7). The results indicated that spiritual health of 81.1% of the elderly was strong and most of the elderly had a good level of successful aging and spiritual health was a predictor of successful aging. Regarding the aspects of spiritual health, the existential health has a positive and significant effect on successful aging (B= 0.65, p <0.001). Furthermore, the results showed that employed elderly (B:4.29) compared to housewives (B:-4.25), those with high financial status compared to those with a moderate (B:-3.44) and low (B:-7.332) level, and the elderly with no history of physical (B:-4.55) and mental (B:-2.54) conditions obtained significantly higher scores in successful aging.

the existential aspect of spiritual health is one of the predictors of successful aging. Given the importance and sensitivity of the issues related to the elderly, by interventions focused on spiritual education one can increase the quality of this period and make it richer.

Golnar product is a poly herbal formulation advised by Persian medicine to control heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB). This study was conducted to compare the efficacy of this product with placebo in patients with HMB.

In this double-blind randomized clinical trial, 100 women with HMB were randomly assigned into two groups. The patients in the Golnar group (n=50) took Golnar capsules 500 mg three times a day for the first 7 days of menstrual cycle for three cycles. The placebo group (n=50), took placebo capsules in the same manner. The duration and volume of bleeding (using Pictorial Blood Loss Assessment Chart: PBAC), quality of life (using Menorrhagia Questionnaire: MQ), and hemoglobin level (Hb) were measured 3 months after initiation of the intervention.

Eighty-two patients (43 in the Golnar and 39 in the placebo groups) completed the 3-month intervention period. In the Golnar group, PBAC score decreased from 201.62 (144.11) to 109.44 (69.57) (p<0.001) and MQ score improved significantly from 0.58 (0.27) to 0.39 (0.31) (p<0.001), while changes in placebo group were not significant. Hb increased in the Golnar group from 12.78±0.98 to 12.97±0.95 mg/dl (p=0.048) and decreased in the placebo group from 12.94±1.08 to 12.44±1.01mg/dl (p<0.001). No significant adverse effects were found in the Golnar group.

The Golnar product can be considered an effective intervention for patients with HMB. Assessment of side-effects is suggested to be performed in a larger sample. In addition, a comparison between the Golnar product and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs could be valuable.

Early simple, low-cost diagnosis of schizophrenia may accelerate the beginning of the treatment process. Here, utilizing the projective tools, including fractal images, are some of the diagnostic aids.

This study aimed to compare the preferences, descriptions, and response latency to fractal images between schizophrenic and healthy individuals.

In this case-control study, the statistical population included all schizophrenic patients hospitalized in Shafa Hospital in Rasht City, Guilan, Iran, in summer 2018 and matched healthy individuals considering the gender and age. Twelve fractal images were shown to schizophrenic patients and healthy people, and their psychological projections to these pictures were recorded.

For the image called extraviganze, the latency time to elicit the descriptions in patients was noticeably more than that in the healthy group (t=2.465, df=58, P=0.017). Meanwhile, the patients’ interest in dark and dreadful fractals such as fractal beings, North, and Apophys eyes was significantly higher than that in the healthy group (P<0.05). However, people with schizophrenia refrained from bright, light fractals with a regular geometric/graphical structure such as Gridspace and redf-shift images (P<0.05). The people with schizophrenia provide less appropriate associations and more irrelevant descriptions, especially about the abstractive and complex fractals, compared to the healthy group.

The latency to elicit descriptions for fractal images in people with schizophrenia is longer than that in the healthy group, and they have more pauses, irrelevant, and incoherent speech when describing more abstractive images. People with schizophrenia prefer darker, more dreadful images and avoid clear, luminous, and fractal images with a regular geometric/graphical pattern.

The relationship between the place and the human being is a very strong and special one, because when a man loses his place, he loses his calm and tranquility. The place is the source of security and tranquility, as the source of aversion, fear and despair. The fictional world created by the novelist is not excepted to that. If we recognize that the character is the active factor in constructing the narratives and generating the facts, and in order to realizing these events and movements of characters, there must be a local theater in which these events take place and the characters move on. And the feelings of the characters and their impressions are different to it, whether positive or negative. In view of the novel Hina Tarakna Al-jisr (when we left the bridge) by Abdurrahman Munif, we note that the writer, like the other gifted novelists, employs the place - as an artistic agent and links Zaki Al-nadawi - the main character - to the place. So that, determines the world- place in which this character lives, with his thoughts, opinions, feelings and emotions embodied in the place, an artistic embodiment establishing a strong relationship between character and the place, so that the reader clearly sees that the place affects him as well as the character affects it.

Stilling basin plays an important role in the energy dissipation of hydraulic structures. In this study, five hydraulic jump models that have shown good results in certain laboratory conditions, are compared. 32 tests in Froude numbers ranging from 1.02-9.19 with three roughness and three slopes and minimum three discharges are done. Selected beds include a smooth bed, a bed with 1.6 mm roughness and bed with a roughness of 3.6 mm. The results showed that reviewed models have errors in hydraulic jump length prediction at different flow regimes. In hydraulically smooth flow, minimum error is 16 percent for the Parsamehr et al model. All models have high error in hydraulically transitional flow but if needed, can be used the model of Mohseni movahhed et al. with an error 53.7 percent. In hydraulically rough flow rough, none of the models have low error but mohseni movahed model with 57 percent error is more usable.

Myrtus communis has certain effects including anti-anxiety, analgesic, anti-inflammatory and hypnotic. The aim of this study was to investigate the phythochemical and anesthesia effects of M. communis essential oil co-administration with thiopental in male rat were investigated.
In this experimental study, 24 male rats were randomly divided to three groups of 8 each, consisting of M. communis (MC) (500 mg/kg), thiopental (T) (40 mg/kg), and M. communis thiopental (MCT) (500 and 40 mg/kg, respectively). Duration of induction and Surgical Anesthesia (SA), walking time, heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature and depth of anesthesia (by withdrawal reflexes) were measured from 0 to 55 minutes.
MC could not induce SA. T induced anesthesia had group insignificantly faster than MCT (P>0.05). Duration of anesthesia in T group was shorter and recovery was faster compared to MCT group (P0.05). The respiratory rate and temperature (between 30 to 55 mints) in MCT group had a significant decrease compared with the other groups (P MC essential oil potentiates duration of T-induced anesthesia. With respect to pharmacological effects, MC could be used as a preanesthetic agent with T. Besides. More studies are needed to determine their efficacy to induce anesthesia in human.

Increasing population and urbanization in the metropolis of Tehran have led to an increase in the number of cars and, as a result, the need for fuel supplies. The network of gas fueled sites is one of the components of the urban services network, which acts as a fuel supplier to the intercity transportation sector, and in its turn, it is important. The purpose of this study was to determine the proper locations of Gas Shelter (CNG) as a municipal user, according to the criteria and criteria in District 4 of Tehran Municipality. In order to achieve this goal, by using the ArcGIS, a map of effective criteria for finding gas storage locations such as population density, passageways and access, land gradient, compatible applications and incompatible applications were prepared. The research method is descriptive-analytic. In order to weigh the criteria, two methods of using experts knowledge and mathematical models as well as software such as Expert Choise were used and the final weight of the criteria was determined. Finally, with the weight multiplication of each criterion in the prepared layer for each criterion and the overlapping of layers using the ArcGIS software capabilities, a final map of the locations for the construction of shelter positions in the 4th municipality of Tehran was prepared. The final map of the location was divided into three classes with suitable potential (49.30% of the total area), moderate (33.6% of the total area) and inappropriate (17.00% of the total area), and it was found that only 14% Of the sites located in the proper range of construction of the storage facilities, the rest are in medium and inappropriate areas. It was also found that the northern and eastern areas of Region 4 have the greatest potential for the construction of new gas fields.

ERBB2 is a member of the human epidermal growth factor receptor family and is located at large arm of chromosome 17. This receptor can activate a variety of signaling pathways which inhibit apoptosis and induce cell proliferation. MiRNAs are small, single strand, non coding RNAs that regulate gene expression at post transcriptional level and control important cellular processes such as proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis and tumor genesis. Genomic location of miRNAs demonstrated that they are located at fragile and/ or cancer related chromosomal regions. The aim of this study is production of necessary structure to over express the predicted area of a novel miRNA in ERBB2 gene following its bioinformatics prediction.

Different bioinformatics software was used to investigate stem loop structures with a potential to produce novel miRNAs, Dicer and Drosha enzymes recognition sites and conservation of interested area. Then the surrounding area of candidate stem loop structure was cloned in pEGFPC1 expression vector successfully.

Different software study shows a high probability of processing a mature miRNA. The required construct for more studies was cloned in pEGFPC1 expression vector successfully.

Bioinformatics analysis predictING stem loop structure has a potential to produce a novel miRNA.

Among many aspects considered to evaluate the low energy buildings, the Life Cycle Energy Consumption (LCEC) is the most comprehensive factor that can properly direct engineers and architectures to the buildings’ optimum design. The LCEC is introduced as the total energy usage associated with all stages of a building’s life cycle mainly consists of production of its materials, transportation of the materials and components, on-site construction, operation, maintenance, demolition and waste treatment. This study aims to evaluate the LCEC factor of a real building located in Tehran, Iran. Due to the lack of the investigations in this field in Iran, the methodology of estimating the building’s energy consumption is comprehensively introduced in this paper. For this purpose, a real multi-family residential building with common architectural plan and residences is selected and the process of evaluating the building’s energy consumption during various periods of its life cycle is discussed in detail. These periods include the material production, transportation, on-site construction, operation, and maintenance stage. Demolition and disposal stage is excluded from the scope of this study because of the lack of the clear information about the waste treatment process in the country. Beside, the energy usage of this stage is reported to be less than 1% of the buildings’ total LCEC according to the literature. The results of this analysis show that the embodied energy of the considered case is about 15% of its LCEC. This embodied energy that is indeed in the range of the internationally reported values can be divided into three separate parts including: 1) 12% energy usage for the building material production, 2) 1% energy usage for the material transportation and on-site construction, and 3) 2% energy consumption for the building maintenance stage. In this regard, it seems that the energy usage during on-site construction period of the building has the minimum effect on the building’s LCEC (about 0.2%) and consequently may be ignored in the LCEC process. It is also concluded that 85% of the considered building’s LCEC belongs to the operation stage in which the effect of climate change in terms of global warming is considered via a simple method based on the change of the thermal comfort setpoints. Although this operational energy is in the range of the values reported in the common international investigations, it is too high for Iran where the lifespan of the residential buildings is respectively short. If the lifespan of the considered building in this study increase from 35 years to 60 years, the portion of the operational energy can increase up to 91% of the building’s LCEC. Therefore, proper estimation of the building’s lifespan is demanded for most of the energy assessment studies. Accurate estimation of the energy content of the building materials in Iran is also highly necessitated. If the material production industry in Iran consumes averagely 30% more energy respect to the average values of the world’s industry, the building’s operational energy will reduce about 3% and respectively its total embodied energy will increase about the same amount.