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The Relationship between Family Social Capital and Prosocial Behaviors (Case Study: Yazd University Students) Seyed Reza Javadian Fatemeh Zeydabadi Nezhad
No full textThe Relationship between Family Social Capital and Prosocial Behaviors (Case Study: Yazd University Students) Seyed Reza Javadian[1] , Fatemeh Zeydabadi Nezhad[2] Received: 29/9/2017 Accepted: 2/10/2018 Abstract The purpose of this study was to see the relationship between family social capital and prosocial behaviors in students, because family members play an important role in the re-production and re-distribution of social capital and in strengthening the prosocial behaviors and the sense of altruism in children. The statistical population was all students at Yazd University in 2014-2015. The sample (372 students) was selected through random convenience sampling. Data was collected through Prosocial Tendencies Measure Revised and social capital questionnaire which was developed by the researcher. Data was analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient, T test and regression. The results showed that students' prosocial behaviors was more than average (M=78.4). The Pearson correlation coefficients of social capital dimensions (intimacy, monitoring, social participation, social norm, effectiveness, environmental trust, institutional trust) and students' prosocial behaviors, are statistically significant. Results also indicate that social norm, environmental trust, social participation, institutional trust and monitoring can explain up to 17 percent of the dependent variable. Keywords: Prosocial Behavior, Altruism, Social Capital, Family, Student [1]. Assistant Professor in Social Work, Social Sciences Department, YazdUniversity, Yazd, Iran. (Corresponding Author). [email protected] [2]. M.A. in Sociology, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran. [email protected]
Author Correction: Smartphone‑based device for point‑of‑care diagnostics of pulmonary infammation using convolutional neural networks (CNNs)
Get PDFCorrection to: Scientific Reportshttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54939-4, published online 22 March 2024 The original version of this Article contained an error in the author name S. Mohammad-Reza Taheri which was incorrectly given as Seyed Mohammad Reza Taheri. In addition, an affiliation was omitted for S. Mohammad-Reza Taheri. The correct affiliations for S. Mohammad-Reza Taheri are listed below. Groningen University, University Medical Center groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713AW Groningen, the Netherlands. Condensed Matter National Laboratory, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran. Moreover, Hossein Simaee was incorrectly affiliated with ‘Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran 1417614335, Iran’ and ‘Integrated Biophysics and Bioengineering Lab (iBL), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran 1417614335, Iran’. The correct affiliation for Hossein Simaee is listed below. Cardiac Primary Prevention Research Center, Cardiovascular Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. The original Article has been corrected.</p
Comparison of proposed modified and original sequential organ failure assessment scores in predicting ICU mortality: a prospective, observational, follow-up study
No full textBackground. The sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score has been recommended to triage critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). This study aimed to compare the performance of our proposed MSOFA and original SOFA scores in predicting ICU mortality. Methods. This prospective observational study was conducted on 250 patients admitted to the ICU. Both tools scores were calculated at the beginning, 24 hours of ICU admission, and 48 hours of ICU admission. Diagnostic odds ratio and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve were used to compare the two scores. Results. MSOFA and SOFA predicted mortality similarly with an area under the ROC curve of 0.837, 0.992, and 0.977 for MSOFA 1, MSOFA 2, and MSOFA 3, respectively, and 0.857, 0.988, and 0.988 for SOFA 1, SOFA 2, and SOFA 3, respectively. The sensitivity and specificity of MSOFA 1 in cut-off point 8 were 82.9% and 68.4%, respectively, MSOFA 2 in cut-off point 9.5 were 94.7% and 97.1%, respectively, and MSOFA 3 in cut-off point of 9.3 were 97.4% and 93.1%, respectively. There was a significant positive correlation between the MSOFA 1 and the SOFA 1 (r: 0.942), 24 hours (r: 0.972), and 48 hours (r: 0.960). Conclusion. The proposed MSOFA and the SOFA scores had high diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity for predicting mortality.</p
Leveraging Literature for Health Education: The Ideal Teacher Concept in the Works of Khāqānī Shervānī (c. 1120–c. 1199) In Honor of Professor Mohammad Reza Rashed Mohassel's Legacy, Book Chapter Review
Get PDFBackground: This article explores the integration of Persian poetry, particularly the works of 12th-century poet and physician Khāqānī Shervānī, into modern medical education to enhance communication strategies and patient care.Method: We investigated the potential benefits of using poetry to promote cultural awareness, health literacy, and effective teaching. The research emphasizes the poet's depiction of ideal teaching qualities by analyzing Khaqani's poetry through thematic, linguistic, and educational lenses. Khaqani portrays wisdom, compassion, and authority as essential qualities for educators, drawing on metaphysical, emotional, and symbolic language to highlight the roles of educators and healers in society.Results: The study's results show that Khaqani's metaphors and vivid imagery can inspire medical educators to incorporate humanistic and spiritual elements into their teaching practices. His poetry also reflects a strong awareness of health and medicine, making it a valuable resource for understanding the state of health literacy in 12th-century Persia (Iran). The article argues that incorporating Khaqani's poetry into medical curricula can help improve communication skills, enhance cultural competence, and foster critical thinking in medical students.Conclusion: This approach encourages a more holistic view of education, blending scientific knowledge with cultural and historical perspectives. Ultimately, integrating classical Persian literature into medical education can improve future healthcare professionals' intellectual and emotional development
7th International Congress of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
No full textThe 7th International Congress of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 12-14 May 2015, Tehran, Iran Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran Conference Theme: Violence Prevention and Promotion of Mental Health Head of Congress: Mehdi Tehrani-Doost, M.D Scientific Secretary: Rozita Davari Ashtiani, M.D Executive Secretary: Katayoun Razjouyan, M.D Executive Manager: Fahima Farrahi The Scientific Committee: Nasrin Sarraf, Arsia Taghva, Sorur Arman, Mohammad reza Eslami, Mahin Eslami, Taghi esmaeeli, Soheila Emami, Shahrokh Amiri, Nasrin Amiri, Houshang Amirian, Mehdi Bina, Noushin Parvaresh, Ashraf Tashakori, Reza Tavakolian, Mehdi Tehrani doost, Seyed Ahmad Jalili, Behrouz Jalili, Mitra Joudi, Paria Hebrani, Nastaran Habibi, Shahram Heidari, Katayoun ,Khoushabi, Rozita Davari Ashtiani, Firouzeh Derakhshanpour, Nasrin Dodangi, Shokoufeh Radfar Katayoun Razjouyan, Forough Riahi, Ghazal Zahed, Elham Salari, Zahra Sepehrmanrsh, Atefeh Soltanifar, Hassan Shahrokhi, Arefeh Shefaat, Fereshteh Shakibaee, Mitra Hakim Shoshtari, Zahra Shahrivar, Elham Shirazi, Ali Alavi shooshtari, Mohammadali Sahebi, Afsaneh Sehat, Seyed Saeed Sadr, Mohammadreza Sadrameli, Nasrin Saraf, Parvin Safavi, Alireza Zahiroldin, Abdolahian, Fariba Arabgol, Fatemeh Asarian, Abbas Attari, Anita Alaghmand, Mohammad Effatpanah, Marzieh ,Assareh, Javad Alaghbandrad, Ahmad Ghanizadeh, Hossein Faker, Mahboobeh Firuzkuhi Mohammadreza Kazemi, Afsaneh Karbasi Amel, Arezou Kiani, Maryam Kipour, Ayub Malek, Fatemeh Mohareri, Mohammadreza Mohammadi, Mehrdad Mohammadian, Maryam Mahmoudirad, Javad ,Mahmoudi Gharaee, Azadeh Mazaheri, Shirin Moalemi, Shokufeh Mousavi, Masoumeh Mousavi Parviz Molavi, Niloufar Mahdavi, Javad Golmirzaee, Mostafa Najafi, Gholamreza Noourazar, Peyman Hashemian, Hamid Yaghubi, Maryam Kousha The Executive Committee: Mehdi Tehranidoost, Katayoun Razjouyan, Zahra Shahrivar, Javad ,Golmirzaee, Javad Mahmoudi Gharaee,Fahima Farrahi, Mojgan Khademi, Firouzeh Jafari ,Mohammadreza Eslami, Mohammad Amin Sattari, Shokoufeh Saffari, Azadeh Sadat Kheradmand Nahid Borna, Anahita Rezaee, Fatemeh Gholipour, Afshin Soleimanpour, Fahima Farrahi, Maziar ,Malekpour, Gilda Rajabi ,Damavandi, Hedie Farrahi, Hamed Mazaheri, Sina Zarrini, Helia Tarighatnia Mahya Seyed Safizadeh, Samira Sadeghi Parvin, Masoumeh Fadavi, Shadi Ansari, Hengameh Hosseini, Farzad Kashefi, Amirali Fadavi, Maziar Malekpoor, Elmira Bonyadi, Ashkan Abolhala
Criminal Policy of Netherlands and U.S.A on Decriminalization of Soft Drugs: justifications for decriminalization of soft dugs
No full textBackground and Aim: Soft drugs are those drugs that are very weak in terms of addiction and the effects are highly treatable. The challenging issue regarding this type of drug is the decriminalization of its use. The criminal policy of some countries such as the Netherlands agrees with the decriminalization and the criminal policy of many others such as the United States of America is against it.
Materials and Methods: To review the reasons and justifications of each of parties for and against soft drug decriminalization, ideas of lawyers and scientific studies in the Netherland and the United States have been considered, and criminal poly makers’ ideas will be reviewed.
Ethical Considerations: Honesty in the literature and citation analysis and reporting were considered.
Findings To justify soft drug criminalization, two classifications of legal and health reasons and justifications can be cited. Legally, it has been stated that drug issue is a problem related to the health and treatment domain, and criminal legal intervention in this area must be considered just as the last weapon. In addition, Penologically, punishing soft drug users is unnecessary, ineffective, without favor, and unnecessary. Regarding health, it has been stated that not only using some soft drugs such as cannabis is not the reason for being sick, but also it has an effective role in treating incurable diseases such as multiple sclerosis, AIDS, hepatitis, chronic pain, and ….
Conclusion: Decriminalization of soft drugs has a theoretical and practical background in countries such as the Netherlands and the United States. Soft drugs like cannabis not only have a lower degree of addictive rate rather than Hard drugs like heroin, but also it has some therapeutic benefits. Legally, the decriminalization of soft drugs has roots in human rights, penology, and criminological justifications.
*Corresponding Author: Seyed Reza Ehsanpour; Email: [email protected]; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9135-3968
Please cite this article as: Ehsanpour SR. Criminal Policy of Netherlands and U.S.A on Decriminalization of Soft Drugs. Bioeth Health Law J. 2021; 1: 1-0 (e11). http://doi.org/10.22037/bhl.v1i1.38155
 
A Review and Critique of the Description of Odes of Khaqani by Mohammad Reza Barzegar Khaleqi (Volume II)
Get PDFOne of the most recent works published in the field of Khaqani Studies is the second and third volumes of Khaqani’s Commentary, written by Mohammad Reza Barzegar Khaleqi. The author in these two volumes, as in the first volume, has described the quotations. The subject of this article is to review and criticize the second volume of this work. This research has attempted to resolve some of the shortcomings and drawbacks of this work through an analytical / descriptive approach; therefore, the drawbacks and shortcomings of this work have been examined in two major sections: content problems and typographical/editing problems. The first section, dealing with content drawbacks, has other sub-categories, which include: (a) misunderstanding the meaning of the verses; (b) incorrect recordings;(c) incorrect reading of verses; and d) inadequate and incomplete explanations. Each section has attempted to substantiate the comments provided by reference to ancient and original sources. However, the purpose of this essay is not to undermine the validity of this work; instead, it seeks to take a positive step in upholding this work with due diligence and ethics so that we can see more relevant text in the future
Prediction of ground motion parameters using artifical neural networks and its application to seismic hazard analysis
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A new look at an old dogma: Wound complications in two methods of skin closure in uncomplicated appendicitis
No full textBackground: Appendicitis is more common during the second and third decade of life and appendectomy scar is important in terms of cosmetic issues. The scar is an important factor in the patient's satisfaction. Conventional teaching has an emphasis on the closure of skin incision with "separate" sutures. The aim of this study was to reconsider this dogma.\ud
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Methods: Among 321 patients with acute appendicitis who came to the emergency unit of Imam Khomeini Hospital in Tehran, Iran since april 2007 till april 2008, 278 (86.6%) patients had uncomplicated appendicitis and were enrolled in our clinical trial. The patients were randomly assigned to two groups of interrupted suture closure (n=139) and subcuticular suture closure (n=139). Anesthesia method and surgical technique were similar between the two groups. All patients were followed up post-operatively (four weeks) for the presence of infectious drainage, pain, erythema, swelling and warmness at the surgical site.\ud
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Results: The patients' sex and their mean age were not statistically different between the groups. There was no significant difference in the frequency of surgical site complications between the two groups (five cases in the "interrupted" group and eight cases in the "subcuticular" group p=0.415).\ud
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Conclusion: This study showed that appendectomy incision closure with subcuticular sutures did not increase the risk of wound complications. From the point of better cosmetic outcome of subcuticular sutures, this method may be the method of choice for the closure of appendectomy incisions in uncomplicated appendicitis
Palaeobiogeography of Late Bajocian–Tithonian ammonites of northeastern Iran
No full textJurassic rocks are widely distributed and superbly exposed in the Alborz Mts. (northern Iran) and Koppeh Dagh (northeastern Iran). The Lower Jurassic and large parts of the Middle Jurassicare characterized by a thick siliciclastic succession, whereas the Upper Bajocian to Tithonian rocks are predominantly carbonates, which represent a platform, slope and basin system. The Upper Bajocian-Tithonian ammonite faunas the NNE Iran are mostly of Submediterranean affinity, but elements of Subboreal, Mediterranean, and Ethiopian provinces are occasionally intermingled. Palaeobiogeographically the Late Bajocian to Bathonian ammonites belong to Submediterranean Province, as elsewhere in north and central Iran. This is supported by the occurrence of ammonites such as Garantiana and Morphoceras and some cosmopolitan taxa such as Cadomites and Oxycerites. In order to unravel the origin of the faunal elements and their migration routes, the relationship of the ammonite fauna of Iran to that of other regions was evaluated. On the whole, at the species level, the Toarcian to Early Bajocian ammonite faunas of northern and central Iran show a close relationship to that of northwestern Europe. A characteristic feature of this fauna is the scarcity of Phylloceratidae (accounting for less than 1% up to 3%) and the absence of Lytoceratidae. Remarkably, from Late Bathonian onward to Kimmeridgian, Phylloceratidae account for more than 50% of the ammonites fauna. Palaeogeographic reconstructions show the position of the Iranian plate (North and Central Iran) during the Middle Jurassic time at the southern margin of Eurasia at a palaeo-latitude of around 30° N which rather corresponds to European regions (Enay & Cariou, 1997). The open migration routes across pericontinental shelf seas along the northern Tethyan margin that were approximately parallel to palaeo-latitudes may explain the strong affinities of the Late Bajocian–Bathonian ammonites of northern and Central Iran to those of the Submediterranean Province. The Callovian ammonite fauna has a typical northwest Tethyan character, and belong to the Submediterranean faunal province (Seyed-Emami et al., 2013), and are largely dominated by Phylloceratidae ammonites. These pelagic taxa that preferred open oceanic conditions are accompanied consistently by Perisphinctidae, Reineckeiidae, Oppeliidae (Hecticoceratinae), Macrocephalitidae , Tulitidae, Aspidoceratidae (Parawedekindia, Peltoceras). On the other hand, this is supported by the occurrence of Submediterranean ammonites such as Macrocephalites, Pachyceras, and some cosmopolitan taxa such as Hecticoceras and Reineckeia. Some taxa from the Oxfordian- Kimmeridgian belong to the Western Tethys Province (Sequeirosia and Passendorferia) or Subboreal Province (Cardioceras). It is remarkable that, besides some cosmopolitan ammonites, there is no direct connection with faunas from southwestern Iran, western India and the southern Tethys. Finally, the Tithonian ammonite faunas of northeastern Iran are mostly of Submediterranean affinity (Seyed-Emami et al., 2013). However elements of the Mediterranean faunal provinces occasionally occur. In order to unravel the origin of the faunal elements and their migration routes, the relationship of the ammonite fauna of Iran to that of other regions need to be analysed in the future. Especially the appearance of several allegedly regionally restricted Ataxioceratidae such as Phanerostephanus, Nannostephanus, Nothostephans and the Oppeliidae as Oxylenticeras, which occur in Ethiopian Province (Page, 2008) is of great palaeobiogeographical interest
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