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{"title":"Development of Information and decisions management Software for educational council minutes of Medical Sciences Universities","authors":"Hamid Mogaddasi, Azam Shahbodaghi, M. Amanzadeh, Mohammad Tabatabaei, M. Shekofteh","doi":"10.22037/JPS.V8I1.13066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22037/JPS.V8I1.13066","url":null,"abstract":"Minutes of educational councils in universities always contain valuable organizational knowledge and play an important role in micro and macro educational decision makings. Lack of storage system, organization and retrieval of these documents can be a major obstacle in the way of utilizing these precious documents. Designing and implementing of an appropriate software to manage minutes of educational councils can facilitate classifying these important documents and ease the access and visibility of their content as well. Therefore based on the structure and the content of educational council minutes of one school of medical sciences universities as a sample and the views of key stakeholders, researchers tried to design and implement a software for information and decisions management of minutes. This research is of developmental- applied type. In order to design the software, object-oriented analysis is used. In the analysis step, at first requirements are identified, extracted and defined based on the descriptive cataloging and subject analyzing of educational councils minutes and after final analysis, the required diagrams were drawn. Software architecture is determined based on the list of requirements and finally the drawn diagrams are converted to programming codes using C# programming language. In the end, the produced software has been tested to ensure its adaptation to the objectives of project and the defined requirements. In this study, it was tried that the designed software leads to the development of electronic database for minutes in order that the universities could have access to content and decisions of these meetings in due time and in appropriate manner. Despite the numerous capabilities of this software, it seems necessary that it be used more widely in order that we could review its improvement and optimization during its implementation in the actual operating environment. Subsequently, it is recommended that Universities of Medical Sciences use the software for information management and their educational meetings to facilitate the process of organizing, storing and retrieving of the documents. They can also contribute to the process of software upgrade for educational meetings in other universities.","PeriodicalId":16663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of paramedical sciences","volume":"34 1","pages":"17-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80990574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Co-authorship patterns and networks in the scientific publications of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences","authors":"M. Shekofteh, F. Rahimi","doi":"10.22037/JPS.V8I1.12101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22037/JPS.V8I1.12101","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing amount of scientific collaboration has led to an increase  in the quality of scientific publications. The goal of this article is to analyze the co-authorship patterns and networks in SBUMS’s scientific publications in WOS from 2009 to 2013. Hence, the co-authorship indicators and ratio of national to international collaborations are determined. This research is a descriptive survey including scientometric approaches. HistCite and NWB software is used to draw and analyze the networks. The findings show that the scientific publications of SBUMS are 6633 publications. The most productive authors are Fereidoun Azizi and Mohamad Reza Zali. The maximum number of scientific publications is allocated to the articles written by more than 5 authors. Collaborative Index (CI), Degree of Collaboration (DC), and Collaborative Coefficient (CC) are 4.27, 0.96, and 0.71 respectively. The ratio of national to international collaborations is 4.78. In co-authorship networks, there are 12825 nodes (authors) that are linked with 97618 edges. The highest degree and betweenness centrality belongs to Masjedi showing the communication paths of other nodes overtaking them. The most international collaboration belongs to the USA. The collaboration of authors in SBUMS is almost good but the international collaboration is not so. Encouraging policies for the further collaboration of authors surely leads to increasing the quality and quantity of the scientific publications. It is recommended to repeat the network analysis in different periods of time.","PeriodicalId":16663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of paramedical sciences","volume":"241 1","pages":"7-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76749999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effect of mangrove plant extract on growth of four fungal pathogens","authors":"S. Rastegar, Mohsen Gozari","doi":"10.22037/JPS.V8I1.13118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22037/JPS.V8I1.13118","url":null,"abstract":"In vitro assessment of the antifungal activities was evaluated in the present study for both aqueous and ethanol extracts prepared from leaves of Avicennia Marina and Rhizophora Mucronata . Leaves of mangrove species were collected from Qeshm and Syrik of south-east coast of Iran, mangrove forest respectively. Antimicrobial tests were carried out through disk diffusion method. Minimum fungicidal concentration was determined according to Agar Dilution method. Results showed that the ethanol extracts of both species had antifungal activities on P. pupurogenome, P. chrysogenum, P. notatum, A. niger, A. alternata and Penicillium italicum. However, none of the water extracts showed antimicrobial activity on the studied fungi. Among all pathogens tested, A. flavus was the most resistant fungi. Different concentrations of extracts from Avicennia Marina and Rhizophora Mucronata exhibited different degree of growth inhibition against tested fungal strains. This study indicates the capability of mangrove species for the utilization as source of natural antifungal.","PeriodicalId":16663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of paramedical sciences","volume":"35 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77968583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating the effects of noise exposure on intensification of diabetes mellitus, serum glucose, cortisol level and body weight of the male mice","authors":"Ebrahim Taban, S. B. Mortazavi, S. Vosoughi, A. Khavanin","doi":"10.22037/JPS.V7I4.14492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22037/JPS.V7I4.14492","url":null,"abstract":"Noise is considered as one of the harmful factors at industrial environments. It affects human health in different aspects including harmful influences on auditory, vision, neurological and psychiatric systems, hormones, physiological and mental systems. Paying attention to the importance of hormonal effects on human body seems to possess crucial importance. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effects of noise exposure on variation of serum levels of glucose and cortisol at Syrian adult male mouse. 36 Syrian male adult mice were randomly categorized into two experiment and control groups. Garlic powder was added to the mice pelleted food meal (equal to 1% of their daily diet) to study its effect on the cortisol and glucose serum levels. The mice pelleted food contains starch, glucose, isolated soya protein, etc., which are the rich resources of A, C, B1, B2 and B6 vitamins. Streptozotocin (60mg/kg) was injected to the mice at experiment group which were under noise exposure with intensity of 90dB in frequency range of 700-5700Hz. Noise were generated using CoolEdit software and distributed to the fabricated box for 30 days (8h/d).  Fasting cortisol and glucose serum levels were measured for mice of both groups 24h after finishing the exposure period. Results indicated that the glucose serum level in non-diabetic and diabetic subjects under noise exposure had significant difference ( p <0.002) with the subjects at control group. Also, cortisol level in non-diabetic and diabetic subjects under noise exposure indicated significant difference ( p <0.002) with the subjects at control group. Exposure to noise with intensity of 90dB at frequency range of 700-5700Hz increases the glucose and cortisol serum levels.","PeriodicalId":16663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of paramedical sciences","volume":"22 1","pages":"11-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73805789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Association of TNF-related apoptosis inducing ligand receptor (TRAIL-R) gene polymorphisms in Iranian Azeri patients with multiple sclerosis","authors":"Bita Amir Taghavi, M. Hashemi, Gholamreza Niaei, S. Rahmani","doi":"10.22037/JPS.V7I4.12031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22037/JPS.V7I4.12031","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system with various degrees of axonal damage. The TNF-related apoptosis inducing ligand receptor (TRAIL-R) might be playing an important role in the pathogenesis of MS. The objective of our study was to evaluate the association of two common polymorphisms is located in the TRAIL-R1 and TRAIL-R2 gene, in the pathogenesis of MS. Methods : We genotyped two single nucleotide polymorphisms in particular regions with single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) and Results obtained from the sequence of some samples, were analyzed using DNAMAN software. DNA was extracted from whole blood using the salting-out procedure. The distribution of genotype frequencies was analyzed using Pearson’s x 2 test. Statistical significance was defined as p < 0.05. Results: No Significant differences in SNP rs4872077 were found between the PRMS and PPMS groups and No association was found between the genotype status of the rs1001793 and rs4872077 polymorphisms and the age at onset, disease duration, EDSS. Conclusion: Our study suggests no association between TRAILR polymorphisms and MS Disease. Nevertheless, this polymorphisms does not appear to be a severity marker of the disease, neither modifying the clinical progression of MS nor its therapeutic response.","PeriodicalId":16663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of paramedical sciences","volume":"12 1","pages":"39-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88097664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assembly of biosolar cells by using N719-bacteriorhodopsin complex","authors":"Mina Nesari, Ahmad Molaeirad","doi":"10.22037/JPS.V7I4.14491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22037/JPS.V7I4.14491","url":null,"abstract":"Today, using new and renewable energy sources to replace fossil fuels is greatly expanded. The solar cells are devices that convert solar energy to electrical energy. Solar cells based on organic materials, especially proteins, are one of these solar cells. For example, bacteriorhodopsin (bR) which is one of the membrane proteins in halobacterium salinarum could be used in solar cells and participate in the liberation and transfer of the electrons. In this study, the effort has been to add a chemical dye (N719) to protein and develop a new hybrid bR/Dye complex to increase efficiency of solar cells based on protein. The formed hybrid complex was tested by using of FTIR and other spectroscopy. Current and voltage of bacteriorhodopsin-based photocell was increased in new complex-based photocell. The results of AFM, FTIR and UV-Visible spectroscopy showed a smooth deposition of bR-Dye N719; stable complex of bR-Dye N719 was also formed.","PeriodicalId":16663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of paramedical sciences","volume":"30 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88594933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigation of heat stress and heat strain in outdoor workers: a case study in Iran","authors":"F. Golbabaei, M. Monazzam, M. Y. Aval, T. Allahyari, Ebrahim Taban, M. R. A. Shendi","doi":"10.22037/JPS.V7I4.14494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22037/JPS.V7I4.14494","url":null,"abstract":"Heat stress is an important and serious threat at work and is a particular concern in outdoor occupational environments. This study aims at comparing heat stress and heat strain at different outdoor groups, examining the protective and adaptive actions which were done by workers and also provi services to them by government or employer to reduce heat load. This cross–sectional study was conducted in the hottest days of the summer 2015 in Shabestar, Iran and 53 healthy men in nine occupational groups including concrete makers, porters, construction, waste site and road making workers, stonemasons, farmers, traffic officers, and street vendors participated. A set of physiological parameters, like heart rate, blood pressure, skin temperature and etc., WBGT index details and some of the adaptive and protective parameters were measured and monitored simultaneously at different times of the day. The study finds that heat exposure in outdoor workplace is prevalent and WBGT TWA/TLV ave is less than 1 in some groups like stonemasons, waste site workers, traffic officers and street vendors whereas in other studied occupations, it is more than 1.This matter is compounded by the fact that the provision of health services by employers or local government was limited, and almost all of the participants had poor or insufficient access levels to public health and welfare services. This study confirms the necessity of interventions by a range of factors, such as government plans, improvement of services in the prevention of heat stress, and planning training courses for outdoor workers to build their knowledge of heat stress .","PeriodicalId":16663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of paramedical sciences","volume":"112 1","pages":"30-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90521891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparison of 5-HT3 or 5-HT4 agents function into the prelimbic area on passive avoidance memory consolidation","authors":"Nargol Ahmadi-Mahmoodabadi, M. Nasehi, M. Emamghoreishi, M. Zarrindast","doi":"10.22037/JPS.V7I4.14501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22037/JPS.V7I4.14501","url":null,"abstract":"Growing evidence suggests that serotonin plays an important role in learning and memory and all its receptors might be implicated in this process. The present study aimed at investigating and comparing the possible involvement of 5-HT 3 and 5-HT 4 receptor (R) agonists/antagonists upon consolidation of inhibitory avoidance memory in the pre-limbic (PL) area. Bilateral intra-PL microinjections of m-CPBG (m-Chlorophenylbiguanide hydrochloride: a selective 5-HT 3 R agonist; 0.1 μg/rat), Y-25130 (a selective 5-HT 3 R antagonist; 0.1 μg/rat), RS67333 (a potent and highly selective 5-HT 4 R partial agonist; 0.5 μg/rat) and RS23597-190 (a selective 5-HT 4 R antagonist; 0.5 μg/rat) were performed immediately after training. The step-through inhibitory avoidance (IA) task was used to memory assessment in adult male Sprague-Dawley rats. Our data revealed that the post-training intra-PL microinjection of m-CPBG relative to saline and Y-25130 decreased inhibitory avoidance memory consolidation in the PL area. On the contrary, RS67333 increased IA memory consolidation in comparison to saline and RS23597-190. In addition, there was also a significant difference between the effects of m-CPBG and RS67333 on IA memory consolidation in the PL area. M-CPBG induced reduction of IA memory consolidation, while RS67333 increased it. However, Y-25130 compared to RS23597-190 did not show any significant difference. All above interventions did not alter locomotor activity. This study indicated that local direct agonist activation of 5-HT 3 Rs induced the reduction of IA memory consolidation, opposed to the local direct agonist activation of 5-HT 4 Rs, which mediated enhancement of IA memory consolidation. It can be proposed that 5-HT 3 Rs in comparison to 5-HT4Rs may be inversely involved in modulation of IA memory consolidation in the PL.","PeriodicalId":16663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of paramedical sciences","volume":"56 1","pages":"52-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80456013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation and comparing rectum and bladder's clinical complications in pelvis radiotherapy in order to treat prostate cancer by using custom block and MLC for three- dimensional conformal radiotherapy","authors":"S. Sabzi, Mohsen Bakhshandeh, M. Houshyari, N. Shakeri, A. J. Arfaee","doi":"10.22037/JPS.V7I4.11682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22037/JPS.V7I4.11682","url":null,"abstract":"Ionization radiation caused to incidence of complications in the exposed organs. In prostate radiotherapy, rectum and bladder have been radiated unwantedly and indicated some complications during and after treatment. The purpose of present study is to consider and to compare clinical complications of rectum and bladder in custom block and MLC for 3- D conformal radiotherapy, in order to determine if both treatments differ with respect to creating radiation protection, subsequently in the incidence of complications. In this respect, 72 patients with prostate cancer classified into two arms, above 60 years without the history of previous radiotherapy, hormone therapy and surgery, were selected randomly in October 2014. In one arm, patients were treated with block 3- D conformal radiotherapy, and in second arm with MLC outbound technique for 3- D radiotherapy. Rectal and bladder clinical complications were recorded before, during (at the end of 10 treatment sessions), 3 and 6 months after treatment then compared based on tables (RTOG/ LENT).Obtained results showed that patients had a significant difference in such complications as urinary frequency after 10 treatment sessions, 3 months after treatment (p<0.02 and p<0.04, respectively)   Also, patients had a significant difference in regard to dysuria at the end of treatment (p<0.02). In both arms, patients had a significant difference in constipation after 30 sessions also at the end of treatment (p<0.02, p<0.02, respectively).In comparing different grades of complications based on RTOG/ LENT tables, it was not observed a significant difference between patients' complications in both arms.","PeriodicalId":16663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of paramedical sciences","volume":"42 1","pages":"21-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75307301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Association of tRNAThr 15927G→A Mutation with the Incidence of Coronary Artery Disease","authors":"Hossein Mohebbifar, M. Hashemi, S. Morovvati","doi":"10.22037/JPS.V7I4.14493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22037/JPS.V7I4.14493","url":null,"abstract":"One of the leading causes of death in the world are cardiovascular diseases, among which coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common one. It occurs as a result of narrowing of the arteries which supply blood to the heart due to a theroma plaque formation. This kind of heart disease can be considered as a multifactorial one as genetic and environmental factors are involved in its incidence. The already conducted studies have investigated the relationship between some of polymorphisms in different loci and CAD with the aim of on-time diagnosis of this disease, which may lead to its prevention and appropriate treatment. The aim of this study was to examine the association of tRNA Thr 15927 G → A mutation with the risk of CAD incidence to offer programs for early diagnosis and treatment of this disease in Iran. Fifty patients with CAD were included in the patient group, and fifty healthy participants were selected for the control group. 5mL of peripheral blood samples drawn from subjects in patient and control groups were collected in the tubes containing Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid ( EDTA ). After DNA extraction from blood with the employment of DNA extraction kit, its quality and quantity were measured using electrophoresis and NanoDrop devices, respectively. Then, the isolated DNA with the implementation of amplification-refractory mutation system  ( ARMS )  and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) techniques was examined to determine and evaluate the target polymorphism in the intended locus. Sequencing method was also used to confirm the findings. To this end, 4 samples were randomly selected and sequenced.In the control group, 6 screened patients had the mutation while the others did not. Similar result was observed in the patient group. The findings of the present study reveal that there was not any significant relationship between tRNAThr 15927G → A mutation and risk of CAD incidence.","PeriodicalId":16663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of paramedical sciences","volume":"3 1","pages":"5-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91370178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}