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Volume 2, Issue 4 (10-2016)
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Most nosocomial infections have been attributed to nonfermenters, particularly Acinetobacter baumannii which causes serious infections like pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis. The purpose of this study was to report our experience with five cases of A. baumannii-related pneumonia infections, seen in a regional hospital, Karaj, Iran. Five cases were identified as having A. baumannii- related pneumonia infection. All cases had been treated previously with various antibiotics at time of diagnosis. The treatment of A. baumannii- related pneumonia infection in all the cases varied. But unfortunately, all the five cases died from severe A. baumannii- related pneumonia and severe sepsis. Our cases brought forth the burden of A. baumannii-related pneumonia infections associated with significant mortality. Physicians should be aware of the remarkable virulence and antibiotic resistance.
Volume 7, Issue 2 (Spring 2019)
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Aims: Shift work is an unusual work pattern compared to day work. It can have adverse effects on human life from various aspects. Effects of shift work on people depend on their job, organizational and social environment, personal traits, and shift work schedule characteristics. The present study aimed at determining the job burnout and problems of shift workers of a water & wastewater contracting company in Tehran.
Instruments & Methods: This is a cross sectional study conducted in a water and wastewater contracting company in Tehran in 2015. The subjects of the study were 89 males (51 shift workers and 38 daytime workers). The Survey of Shift workers (SOS) and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) questionnaires were used to assess the shift work-related problems and job burnout, respectively. Finally, the data were analyzed by R software and statistical tests.
Findings: The findings of this study did not show significant difference in the values of job burnout dimensions in both groups (shift workers and daytime workers). Job burnout scores for shift workers group showed that 27.3% in depersonalization and 19.5% in personal accomplishment dimensions were in severe problems category. According to the independent samples t-test, there was a significant difference in sleep hours in both groups (p<0.05). Also, 5.8% of the shift workers and 23.6% of the daytime workers had cardiovascular disorders.
Conclusion: In this study, most of the shift workers were satisfied with their shift work system. It seems that more surveys in this area for the future studies is necessary.
Volume 13, Issue 2 (Fall & Winter 2009)
Abstract
City central district, where the most important events of a city take place, has different features in different cities according to the specific conditions of that city. However, in spite of the significance of this district in the city space, the researches in this field have been done with an emphasis on big cities and mainly for problem-solving purposes.
In this study, therefore, a framework consisting of economic (land and shopping value, employment density and distribution of financial, insurance and social security institutions), historical (the historic core of the city, stages of city development and symbolic elements of the city), social (public spaces of the city, density of cultural centers, population density, population density in certain parts of the day), traffic (centeral place for traffic, transport station density of city and accessibility), governmental (activity of governmental and public office centers) and physical- spatial factors (building density, historic fabric, specific architecture, urban development pattern and land use pattern), was presented. Through analyzing the urban space of Bookan, as an intermediate city located in Iran, the role of the
above-mentioned factors in the development of its central district was investigated. Then, the major factors contributing to the explanation of this district were identified.
The results showed that, among the set of factors influencing the central district historic and economic factors, were the most important ones in Bookan;on the other hand, the governmental function has been decentralized, and functional and activity variances are the major features of city central district of Bookan compared to other parts of the city. Our findings also show that the central district of Bookan city include the most important activities of the city; therefore, by including wide range of different activities it has different functions and, thereby, its boundary basically differs from that of other parts of the city from this perspective.
Mohammad Mazidi Sharfabadi, Nuha Majeed Karam, Reza Kurd,
Volume 24, Issue 1 (January 2023)
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In this article, the effect of using phase change materials to improve heat transfer in power distribution transformers has been investigated experimentally. To enhance the cooling of the transformer, a new method has been proposed, which involves adding paraffin inside aluminium containers that are sealed to the transformer oil. The test setup includes an electric transformer filled with transformer oil, two electrical heaters, a power regulator, a thermal camera, oil insulation measuring device, and temperature sensors placed at various locations. The experimental results demonstrated that the addition of phase change materials to the electronic transformer oil led to a decrease in the temperature of the transformer, particularly in summer weather conditions. Additionally, the mean temperature of the transformer oil was reduced from 46.7 to 42.5 degrees Celsius by adding 8 kg of paraffin. However, it was observed that when the temperature increases suddenly and rapidly within an hour, these materials are ineffective in dissipating the heat and reducing the temperature of the transformers. Additionally, the research examines the impact of continuous and high-temperature increases on the oil electrical insulation. The results revealed that using phase change materials increased the voltage that the oil could withstand as an electrical insulator from 56.8 kV to 61 kV.
Volume 26, Issue 4 (12-2019)
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This paper investigates the conflation of “Path” conceptual semantic in Motion events in the Central-Kurdish (Sorani) Language, Ardelani Dialect, in light of Talmy notions in this regard. According to Talmy, in each Motion event, four main elements i.e. “Figure”, “Ground”, “Path” and “Motion” are involved. These conceptual meanings can be lexicalized either on “Verb Root” or on “Satellite”. By considering a conceptual meaning like “Path” and investigating the surface element that shows it, we can define the typology of languages as “Verb-Framed” or “Satellite-Framed”. In this paper, after analyzing sample sentences containing “Path” concept, in addition to showing the way this concept is lexicalized in Kurdish, we would define typology of Ardelani dialect among Indo-European languages. Data used in this paper is a selection of 23 sentences extracted from a corpus of 890 sentences containing Motion event that have lexicalized Path concept. These sentences have been produced by 18 different native Ardelani speakers in three different groups.
Volume 28, Issue 2 (6-2021)
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The present research aims to analyze the morphophonemic processes of present stem after adding inflectional affixes. The research method is descriptive-analytical and the method of data collection is base on Dehkhoda Dictionary (2011), and Sokhan Dictionary (2003). There are 159 present stem based on Tabataba'i (1997) which are uncusative affixes, undenominative and unborrowing stems. The data have been analyzed in the framework of Generative Phonological theory and then transcribed according to the International Phonetic Alphabet "I.P.A". Results show that in formal speaking "Hamza" or the glottal stop [ʔ] is added to verbs that begin with vowel. After adding the implication and command prefix /be-/ to the present stem of simple verbs in Persian Language, because of the hiatus and the initial vowel stems, the glide [j] is inserted and then the process of raising the vowel /e/ of the implication and command prefix will happen; therefore, the vowel shortening process in informal spoken Persian Language is not seen but only the process of gliding and raising the vowel happens. On the other hand after adding the continuance prefix / mi- /, "Hamza" is not inserted in informal spoken Persian Language and instead, the front vowel shortening process /i/ and gliding as short vowel sequence and gliding [-ej-] and then raising the front central vowel [e] before gliding [j] as vowel sequence and glide [-ij-] are observed. In such structures, there is no "Hamza" or the glottal stop [ʔ] in the hiatus in informal spoken. . The results of the present study show that a) in informal spoken, the weight of some syllables becomes lighter than its weight in formal spoken. b) The number of syllables of a word is in some cases less than the formal.