Social factors associated with infants’ mortality

One of the important health indices showing health status of a society is health index of mortality rate of children < 1 year. There are many negative parameters weakening potentiality of children in growth and development of which some can be categorized as social factors. This research has tried to investigate some factors as education level, parents’ jobs, maternal care, the times of child care, breast feeding and < 1 year children mortality. This is a descriptive comparative retrospective study in which there were 121 less then 1 year children (dead and live) referring to Isfahan health centers selected with all including criteria. The data were collected by questionnaires and categorized into two groups, to be investigated and compared. Content validity and standardized fixed forms were used for questionnaire validity and reliability respectively. The data were analyzed by descriptive inferential statistics (X2, T-test) . The findings showed that there was a significant association between parents’ education, fathers’ jobs. mothers’ jobs, manner of breast feeding, the times of child care, maternal care and mortality of children < 1 year. Regarding the results, it seems that government, organization, and authorities concerning health strategies as well as health provider staffs play a major role in prediction and control of social factors affecting infants’ mortality. These roles can be in forms of education, socio economic and cultural status promoting plans among men and women as well as enhancement of public knowledge

Correction Some Distortions and Falsifications in Aghraz Al-Seyasah by Emphasizing on Meshkat᾿s Transcript

Aghraz Al-Seyasah Fi A'araz Al-Reyasah, authored by Zahiry Samarghandy has become one of the excellent and outstanding old prose texts, because of containing technical, political, social, philosophical, didactic, and ethical teachings and addressing governance practices. These practical and miscellaneous teachings have led to frequent transcriptions and insertion of significant distortions and falsifications into the text of the mentioned book. Jaafar Sheảr by having in hand four manuscripts of Aghraz Al-Seyasah but without benefitting all of them (specially Meshkảt᾿s transcript) has corrected and printed it in many cases mentioned the manuscript᾿s differences. Furthermore, negligence in trusteeship towards manuscripts, especially the base manuscript, hastiness in correction, and the weakness and indifference in typesetting have inserted some other distortions, falsifications, and errors in the aforesaid book. This study has tried to countercheck the printed copy of Aghraz Al-Seyasah with the base and Meshkảt᾿s manuscript, and then by comparing some phrases of it with the other works of Zahiry Samarghandy (Sandbadnameh and Ghorrat–al-Alfaz wa Nozhat-al-Alhaz) and writer᾿s stylistic norms analyze and correct some distortions falsifications and errors in the printed text of Aghraz Al-Seyasah

A Study on Some Verses Attributed to Rudaki based on a Few Old Sources

Abu Abdullah Rudaki's Divan is one of the most important poetry Divans in the Khorasan area, from which only some scattered verses have remained in the ancient texts and manuscripts. With great effort, the late Saeed Nafisi managed to collect many of Rudaki's poems from various texts and provided a brief Divan from this highly productive poet. He used such dictionaries as Saha'a al-Fors, Asadi Tussi's Loghate Fors, and also rhetorical books such as Tarjoman al-Balaghah, and al-Mu'ajm. While praising the efforts of this respected scholar, the present paper tries to unveil and remove two shortcomings in his work so as to take a further step towards a reliable version of Rudaki's poetry. The two shortcomings are as follows: first, there are verses by Rudaki in these sources that have not been recorded in Nafisi's Divan. Second, by citing the putative sources, Nafisi has attributed some verses to Rudaki, while investigations made it clear that such verses do not belong to him but to other well-known poets. Considering the importance of research in the poetry of Khorasan, especially Rudaki's poetry, it is attempted to collect verses which are not included in Nafisi's Divan, introduce new verses by Rudaki, and reject wrong attributions by referring to the printed books and several manuscripts in this paper

Development and analysis of the Soil Water Infiltration Global database

In this paper, we present and analyze a novel global database of soil infiltration measurements, the Soil Water Infiltration Global (SWIG) database. In total, 5023 infiltration curves were collected across all continents in the SWIG database. These data were either provided and quality checked by the scientists who performed the experiments or they were digitized from published articles. Data from 54 different countries were included in the database with major contributions from Iran, China, and the USA. In addition to its extensive geographical coverage, the collected infiltration curves cover research from 1976 to late 2017. Basic information on measurement location and method, soil properties, and land use was gathered along with the infiltration data, making the database valuable for the development of pedotransfer functions (PTFs) for estimating soil hydraulic properties, for the evaluation of infiltration measurement methods, and for developing and validating infiltration models. Soil textural information (clay, silt, and sand content) is available for 3842 out of 5023 infiltration measurements ( ∼ 76%) covering nearly all soil USDA textural classes except for the sandy clay and silt classes. Information on land use is available for 76% of the experimental sites with agricultural land use as the dominant type ( ∼ 40%). We are convinced that the SWIG database will allow for a better parameterization of the infiltration process in land surface models and for testing infiltration models. All collected data and related soil characteristics are provided online in *.xlsx and *.csv formats for reference, and we add a disclaimer that the database is for public domain use only and can be copied freely by referencing it. Supplementary data are available at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.885492 (Rahmati et al., 2018). Data quality assessment is strongly advised prior to any use of this database. Finally, we would like to encourage scientists to extend and update the SWIG database by uploading new data to it

The Comparison of the Effect of the Number of Aerobic and Yoga Sessions on Physical Self–Description Components of Female University Students

The purpose of the present study was to compare the effect of 5 and 10 weeks of aerobic and yoga exercises on physical self–description components of female students. 57 sedentary female students (age range of 19-25 years old) from Ferdowsi University who did not have any experience of those training modes were selected and randomly and equally assigned to two experimental groups (aerobic and yoga) and one control group. The experimental groups participated in the program for 10 weeks, two sessions per week, each session 60 minutes. During this period, the control group did not engage in any organized exercise program. In order to collect data, physical self–description questionnaire was used at three different points (at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the test). One–way ANOVA and post hoc Tukey test showed that at the end of the 5th week of exercise, coordination and sport competence components in yoga group were significantly higher than aerobic and control groups (

Development and analysis of the Soil Water Infiltration Global database

© Author(s) 2018. In this paper, we present and analyze a novel global database of soil infiltration measurements, the Soil Water Infiltration Global (SWIG) database. In total, 5023 infiltration curves were collected across all continents in the SWIG database. These data were either provided and quality checked by the scientists who performed the experiments or they were digitized from published articles. Data from 54 different countries were included in the database with major contributions from Iran, China, and the USA. In addition to its extensive geographical coverage, the collected infiltration curves cover research from 1976 to late 2017. Basic information on measurement location and method, soil properties, and land use was gathered along with the infiltration data, making the database valuable for the development of pedotransfer functions (PTFs) for estimating soil hydraulic properties, for the evaluation of infiltration measurement methods, and for developing and validating infiltration models. Soil textural information (clay, silt, and sand content) is available for 3842 out of 5023 infiltration measurements (∼76%) covering nearly all soil USDA textural classes except for the sandy clay and silt classes. Information on land use is available for 76ĝ€% of the experimental sites with agricultural land use as the dominant type (∼40%). We are convinced that the SWIG database will allow for a better parameterization of the infiltration process in land surface models and for testing infiltration models. All collected data and related soil characteristics are provided online in ∗.xlsx and ∗.csv formats for reference, and we add a disclaimer that the database is for public domain use only and can be copied freely by referencing it. Supplementary data are available at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.885492 (Rahmati et al., 2018). Data quality assessment is strongly advised prior to any use of this database. Finally, we would like to encourage scientists to extend and update the SWIG database by uploading new data to it.status: publishe