The study of relationship between narcissistic disorder and body dysmorphic between applicants and non-applicants for nose cosmetic surgery

زمینه و هدف: جراحی پلاستیک بینی شایع ترین عمل زیبایی در ایران است. از این رو، پژوهش حاضر با هدف بررسی رابطه اختلال خود شیفتگی و بد شکلی بدن در متقاضیان جراحی زیبایی بینی و مقایسه آن با افراد غیر متقاضی جراحی زیبایی بینی انجام گردید. روش بررسی: در این مطالعه توصیفی- تحلیلی، 100 نفر متقاضی جراحی زیبایی بینی و 100 نفر غیر متقاضی جراحی بینی که از نظر میزان تحصیلات، جنسیت، تأهل و محل زندگی با یکدیگر همتا شده بودند، به شیوه نمونه گیری در دسترس در شهر ساری (1391) انتخاب شدند. کلیه افراد، توسط پرسشنامه خود شیفتگی و پرسشنامه روابط چند بعدی بدن- خود (MBSRQ)، مورد ارزیابی قرار گرفتند. داده ها با استفاده از روش آماری رگرسیون لجستیک تحلیل گردید. یافته ها: تحلیل داده ها نشان داد، سطح میانگین اختلال بدشکلی بدن و خود شیفتگی در افراد متقاضی جراحی زیبایی نسبت به افراد غیر متقاضی بیشتر است. نتایج همچنین نشان دادند اختلال بدشکلی بدن نقش معنی داری در پیش بینی اقدام به جراحی زیبایی بینی داشت. نسبت شانس مربوط به اختلال بدشکلی بدن بیشتر از یک بود (218/1) که بیانگر شانس مراجعه بیشتر افراد دارای اختلال بدشکلی بدن نسبت به افراد عادی جهت مراجعه برای جراحی زیبایی می باشد. اختلال خود شیفتگی نقش معنی داری در پیش بینی مراجعه برای جراحی زیبایی نداشت. نتیجه گیری: بر اساس نتایج، به نظر می رسد خود پنداره منفی از بدشکل بدنی در میزان مراجعه و اقدام برای عمل جراحی زیبایی بینی تأثیر دارد

Low dose effects of ethanol on suckling rats: Enzymes activity, histological alterations and growth parameters.

زمینه و هدف: غلظت های پایین اتانول می توانند از طریق جفت به جنین و از طریق شیر مادر به نوزاد تازه متولد شده منتقل شوند. این مطالعه با هدف بررسی اثرات دوزهای مختلف اتانول در طول دوره شیردهی بر تغییرات آنزیمی، بافتی و شاخص های رشد نوزادان شیرخوار در موش صحرایی انجام شد. روش بررسی: در این مطالعه تجربی، 21 سر موش صحرایی ماده بالغ نژاد ویستار به سه گروه شامل دو گروه تیمار و یک گروه شاهد تقسیم شدند. به گروه های تیمار از روز یک زایمان تا روز 24 شیردهی آب آشامیدنی به همراه اتانول با غلظت حجمی 2 و 4 درصد تجویز شد و گروه شاهد تنها به آب آشامیدنی دسترسی داشتند. از هر گروه، 9 سر نوزاد موش صحرایی 25 روزه انتخاب و فعالیت سرمی آنزیم های آلانین آمینوترانسفراز، گاماگلوتامیک ترانسفراز، آسپارتات آمینوترانسفراز، آلکالین فسفاتاز، لاکتات دهیدروژناز، کراتین فسفوکیناز، نیتروژن اوره خون و کراتینین اندازه گیری شدند. همچنین مطالعات آسیب شناسی بر روی بافت های مغز، کبد و کلیه انجام شد. داده ها به کمک آزمون های آماری آنالیزواریانس و تست دانت در نرم افزار SPSS تجزیه و تحلیل شدند. یافته ها: در گروه های تجربی میزان فعالیت سرمی آنزیم های آلانین آمینوترانسفراز، آسپارتات آمینوترانسفراز، نیتروژن اوره خون، کراتین فسفوکیناز و آلکالین فسفاتاز اختلاف معنی داری را نسبت به گروه شاهد نشان ندادند (05/0P). مطالعات هیستوپاتولوژیک آسیب های مختلفی را در بافت مغز، کبد و کلیه نوزادان در معرض اتانول 4 حجمی را نشان داد. نتیجه گیری: بر اساس نتایج این مطالعه، مصرف نوشیدنی های الکلی در دوران شیردهی می تواند ضایعات جبران ناپذیری بر روی نوزاد داشته باشد

Stormwater harvesting for irrigation purposes: An investigation of chemical quality of water recycled in pervious pavement system

Most available water resources in the world are used for agricultural irrigation. Whilst this level of water use is expected to increase due to rising world population and land use, available water resources are expected to become limited due to climate change and uneven rainfall distribution. Recycled stormwater has the potential to be used as an alternative source of irrigation water and part of sustainable water management strategy. This paper reports on a study to investigate whether a sustainable urban drainage system (SUDS) technique, known as the pervious pavements system (PPS) has the capability to recycle water that meets irrigation water quality standard. Furthermore, the experiment provided information on the impact of hydrocarbon (which was applied to simulate oil dripping from parked vehicles onto PPS), leaching of nutrients from different layers of the PPS and effects of nutrients (applied to enhance bioremediation) on the stormwater recycling efficiency of the PPS. A weekly dose of 6.23×10-3L of lubricating oil and single dose of 17.06g of polymer coated controlled-release fertilizer granules were applied to the series of 710mm×360mm model pervious pavement structure except the controls. Rainfall intensity of 7.4mm/h was applied to the test models at the rate of 3 events per week. Analysis of the recycled water showed that PPS has the capability to recycle stormwater to a quality that meets the chemical standards for use in agricultural irrigation irrespective of the type of sub-base used. There is a potential benefit of nutrient availability in recycled water for plants, but care should be taken not to dispose of this water in natural water courses as it might result in eutrophication problems. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd

Crowdsourcing in China: Exploring the Work Experience of Solo Crowdworkers and Crowdfarm Workers

Recent research highlights the potential of crowdsourcing in China. Yet very few studies explore the workplace context and experiences of Chinese crowdworkers. Those that do, focus mainly on the work experiences of solo crowdworkers but do not deal with issues pertaining to the substantial amount of people working in ‘crowdfarms’. This article addresses this gap as one of its primary concerns. Drawing on a study that involves 48 participants, our research explores, compares and contrasts the work experiences of solo crowdworkers to those of crowdfarm workers. Our findings illustrate that the work experiences and context of the solo workers and crowdfarm workers are substantially different, with regards to their motivations, the ways they engage with crowdsourcing, the tasks they work on, and the crowdsourcing platforms they utilize. Overall, our study contributes to furthering the understandings on the work experiences of crowdworkers in China

Preliminary development of a sewerage infrastructure buffer assessment tool for engineering risk and strategic land use planning

Urban expansion continues to encroach on once isolated sewerage infrastructure. In this context,legislation and guidelines provide limited direction to the amenity allocation of appropriate buffer distances for land use planners and infrastructure providers. Topography, wind speed and direction,temperature, humidity, existing land uses and vegetation profiles are some of the factors that require investigation in analytically determining a basis for buffer separations. This paper discusses the compilation and analysis of six years of Logan sewerage odour complaint data. Graphically,relationships between the complaints, topographical features and meteorological data are presented. Application of a buffer sizing process could assist planners and infrastructure designers alike, whilst automatically providing extra green spaces. Establishing a justifiable criterion for buffer zone allocations can only assist in promoting manageable growth for healthier and more sustainable communities

Project X: A Multi Disciplinary Design Workshop

This paper describes the development and implementation of two multi disciplinary design courses at UNSW, dubbed Project X and Project X2. The courses were originally proposed by the Organising Committee of the ConnectED 2007 Conference, as demonstration courses that might embody the spirit of the Conference. They have been coordinated by representatives from the three design-based faculties at UNSW: Faculty of the Built Environment (FBE), College of Fine Arts (COFA) and Faculty of Engineering (FOE). These faculties are also the host faculties for the Conference. Project X (the Scheme Design Course), ran as an intensive course for three weeks in February 2007. Students from the three Faculties worked together in teams to produce scheme designs against a brief set by the Conference Organising Committee as client for the design. The scheme designs were evaluated first within the course and then by an external Project X Jury. The Jury selected the winning design which was then to be developed and constructed by multidisciplinary teams in Project X2 (the Fabrication and Construction Course). This course is currently running in a standard once-a-week mode in Session 1, 2007. Together, Project X and Project X2 celebrate both the design process and the design education process, and both in their multi-disciplinary dimension. The Project X cross-disciplinary mix, with Faculty of Engineering students working alongside students from the College of Fine Arts, and Faculty of the Built Environment students, is so rich it has been described as cross-cultural. Whether despite or because of this richness, evidence so far from surveys of students and staff indicates a successful outcome in terms of design education experience

Virtual Research Environments: What do libraries have to do with it?

The advent of Web2.0 technology has sparked the development of various new forms of interaction that are being increasingly used by students and researchers in universities. Beyond commercially hyped social networks, the development of Virtual Research Environments is taking place around the world. University libraries, like any other service provider, risk becoming increasingly irrelevant if they do not respond to changing user needs. In order to continue effectively supporting the research process, and to demonstrate the value a library adds to an academic institution, university libraries need to be aware of how Web 2.0 technologies are changing the ways that researchers’ carry out their work.Indications are that these new networks will become commonplace in the next few years, drastically affecting the way researchers work and communicate with each other. The development of these environments presents an opportunity and a challenge to libraries – how do we position our content and services so that we can continue in our mission of supporting the research process? This paper reviews current VRE projects, and data of academic use of technology, including web2.0 and multimedia, and identifies possible ways in which the modern library can use these new technologies in order to position library content and services within Virtual Research Environments

Becoming the authoritative source: taking repositories to centre stage

Institutional repositories can be a storehouse of the research of an institution. There are many internal and external needs to find, use and report on the entirety or parts of an institution's research output. This paper examines how to harness environmental factors to make an institutional repository the central and authoritative source of the research material output of a university. How to take it from 'a place' to put research to making it 'the place' and moving it from a nice-to-have service to one with a solid, sustainable future, one that the academic community values, supports and uses rather than sees as yet another administrative burden. A key value of research material is its authoritativeness. Researchers want to be able to say 'this is my paper' or 'this is the corpus of my research'. Research organisations want to be able to say the equivalent for all their researchers. The value of this identification is not just an assertion of authorship. It is also valued because the material can be authoritatively used to feed research discovery services and e-portfolios, fulfil reporting requirements to government and funders, substantiate promotions and back-up grant applications, and assist with benchmarking academic success in any given field. There are also many other uses for a repository. The UNSWorks repository at the University of NSW will be used as a case study for this paper. The factors that can support the role of a repository as the authoritative source of research output are evaluated. The implications for interoperability with other institutional and external systems are identified, as are the resource implications and how success can be measured