Connections matter: Exploring the relationship between belonging and psychosocial well-being in type 1 diabetes in Iran.

Aim: Identify the relationship between a sense of belonging and psychosocial well-being in individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D) in Iran.

Background: Understanding this relationship is vital for tailored nursing interventions to enhance individual's sense of belonging and improve diabetes outcomes.

Methods: This cross-sectional study included 205 participants selected via multi-stage cluster and simple random sampling from health centers in Iranian.

Assessment of Load Manual Lifting among Shelf-Stoking Workers in Chain Stores: A Cross-Sectional Study.

In Iranian stores, shelf workers, in addition to shelf-stocking, perform diverse tasks, such as working as a cashier, cleaning, barcode reading, labeling goods, and entering the price with the portable data terminal (PDT). Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal symptoms (WMSs) and assess load manual lifting among shelf-stoking workers. This cross-sectional study was conducted among 101 shelf-stoking workers (60 males and 41 females) in chain stores at Shiraz city, Iran.

Effect of dry needling on pain and central sensitization in women with chronic pelvic pain: A randomized parallel-group controlled clinical trial.

Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is a debilitating problem in women with clear evidence of myofascial dysfunction. It seems that Myofascial trigger points (MTrPs) contribute to the development of central sensitization (CS). This study aimed to investigate the effect of dry needling on pain and CS in women with CPP.

Ion transport induced room-temperature insulator-metal transition in single-crystalline CuSe.

CuSe is a superionic conductor above 414 K, with ionic conductivities reaching that of molten salts. The superionic behavior results from hopping Cu ions between different crystallographic sites within the Se scaffold. However, the properties of CuSe below 414 K are far less known due to experimental limitations imposed by the bulk or polycrystalline samples that have been available so far.

Magnetic cobalt metal organic framework for photocatalytic water splitting hydrogen evolution.

Using water as a renewable and safe energy source for hydrogen generation has reduced the need to use toxic fossil fuels. Photocatalytic approaches provide a worthy solution to avoid the high expenditure on complicated electrochemical pathways to promote Hydrogen Evolution Reactions. However, several types of photocatalysts including noble metal-based catalysts have already been in use for this purpose, which are generally considered high-cost as well.

Dynamic stability evaluation of trunk accelerations during walking in blind and sighted individuals.

Background: Dynamic stability is a fundamental goal in standing activities. In this regard, monitoring, analysis, and interventions made to improve stability is a research topic investigated in the biomechanics of human movements. Vision has a major role to play in controlling human movement.

Respiratory Function Assessment through Kinematic Analysis of Chest Wall Movements: Effects of Position and Gender.

Background: The effect of position and gender on chest movements and respiratory volumes is controversial and investigated in only a few studies.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effects of position and gender on the breathing pattern during four different positions in healthy individuals.

Material And Methods: In this cross-sectional study, twenty-eight (14 males, 14 females) healthy individuals participated aged 20-45 years.

Evaluation of Contralateral Limb Cross Education and High-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Functional Indices of the Affected Upper Limb in Subacute Phase of Stroke.

Background: Stroke is one of the causes of long-term morbidity. Despite rehabilitation strategies, most survivors live with motor deficits in the upper limbs.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to compare the effect of contralateral cross education (CE) and high-frequency repetitive magnetic stimulation (HF-rTMS) on the function of upper extremity in subacute phase of stroke.

Characteristics of causing urinary tract infections: Emergence of new sequence types ST74 and ST38 in Iran.

Objectives: Difficult-to-treat infections are increasingly described in patients with urinary tract infections (UTIs). This occurrence could be due to the production of virulence determinants. This study aimed to characterize the molecular features of responsible for UTIs.

Assessment of the effects of white cane variables on step symmetry of blind individuals.

Background: Step symmetry is an important feature of human gait and is often regarded as a key index of healthy individuals' walking. This study evaluated the effects of height, white cane technique, and cane tip on symmetrical gait in blind individuals.

Materials And Methods: Twenty blind and ten sighted subjects, aged 15-38 years, participated in this study.

Knee Extension Exercise Effects on Physiological and Psychophysical Performance: Normal Weight Versus Obese Office Workers.

Background: Knee extension exercise is useful and practical for obese and overweight people as this form of exercise is effective in minimizing body weight loading on joints and improving the body's physiological function. This study aimed to compare the physiological and psychophysical parameters of office workers while computer-based working in an active workstation equipped with an active footrest (AFR) prototype with a mechanism for performing knee extension exercises in a sitting position, and also to compare the physiological and psychophysical parameters among normal-weight and obese office workers.

Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, the physiological parameters of heart rate (HR) and energy expenditure (EE) (measured with the Fitbit Charge HR smartwatch) were measured in two cross-over random sessions for 32 office workers (16 normal-weight and 16 obese) aged 28 to 50 years ( = 42.

Uninvited guest, in urine in a patient with bladder cancer: A case report and review of the literature.

Key Clinical Message: In contrast to intestinal balantidiasis, which is widespread throughout the world, urinary balantidiasis is uncommon. It often affects people with underlying diseases, and acute infections may be fatal. Even though urine is not typical for this parasite, specific morphologic characteristics can aid in accurate diagnosis.

The hip joint mobilization with movement technique improves muscle activity, postural stability, functional and dynamic balance in hemiplegia secondary to chronic stroke: a blinded randomized controlled trial.

Background: People with stroke generally experience abnormal muscle activity and develop balance disorder. Based on the important role of the proximal joints of the lower extremity in balance maintenance, hip joint mobilization with movement technique can be applied to enhance normal joint arthrokinematics. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of hip joint mobilization with movement technique on stroke patients' muscle activity and balance.

The Use of Cluster Analysis by Partitioning around Medoids (PAM) to Examine the Heterogeneity of Patients with Low Back Pain within Subgroups of the Treatment Based Classification System.

Background: Current evidence in low back pain (LBP) focuses on population averages and traditional multivariate analyses to find the significant difference between variables. Such a focus actively obscured the heterogeneity and increased errors. Cluster analysis (CA) addresses the mentioned shortcomings by calculating the degree of similarity among the relevant variables of the different objects.

Formaldehyde 5% in Flexible Collodion Compared to Cryotherapy for Treatment of Female Genital Warts: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Objectives: Genital wart is a sexually transmitted disease caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) and is responsible for discomfort, and decreased quality of life and productivity in victims with a high recurrence rate after treatments. This study aimed to compare the efficacy and safety of formaldehyde 5% with cryotherapy for the treatment of female genital warts.

Methods: Eighty women with at least two similar genital warts who visited the outpatient dermatology clinic of Shahid Faghihi hospital, Shiraz, Iran, were enrolled in this study.

Ultrafast Pulse Generation from Quantum Cascade Lasers.

Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) have broken the spectral barriers of semiconductor lasers and enabled a range of applications in the mid-infrared (MIR) and terahertz (THz) regimes. However, until recently, generating ultrashort and intense pulses from QCLs has been difficult. This would be useful to study ultrafast processes in MIR and THz using the targeted wavelength-by-design properties of QCLs.

Development of an Ergonomic, Portable, Climber-Propelled Date Tree Climbing Device.

In the most of main date fruit producer regions, including Iran, date palm crown access operation is still performed traditionally. The date plantation workers need to climb date trees. This may cause an unsafe condition, which increases the risk of fall from height.

Adverse Effects of Sit and Stand Workstations on the Health Outcomes of Assembly Line Workers: A Cross-sectional Study.

Introduction: Sitting and standing workstations can affect individual's health outcomes differently. This study aimed to assess the effects of sit and stand workstations on energy expenditure and blood parameters, including glucose and triglyceride, musculoskeletal symptoms/pain and discomfort, fatigue, and productivity among workers of assembly line of a belt factory.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 47 male assembly line workers (24 workers in sitting workstation and 23 workers in standing workstation) with at least one year of working experience.

Recommended maximum holding time of common static sitting postures of office workers.

A posture maintained for a long period can be harmful to the health of office workers. This study aimed to estimate the recommended ergonomic duration for maintaining different sitting postures. Forty healthy male and female students participated in this experiment designed to measure perceived discomfort caused by maintaining common static sitting postures of office workers in a simple ergonomic set-up for 4 min.

Knee impairments: Comparison between new clinical classification by cluster analysis and movement system impairment model.

Background: Although Movement System Impairment (MSI) model classifies patients with knee impairments, it has some limitations. This study compares MSI model with a new Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM) model in knee pain patients.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, knee movement impairments (signs) and symptoms.

Effects of an ergonomic intervention program based on the PRECEDE-PROCEED model for reducing work-related health problems and exposure risks among emergency medical dispatchers.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of an ergonomic intervention program based on the PRECEDE-PROCEED model in terms of improving exposure risks and work-related health problems in emergency medical dispatchers.

Methods: This quasi-experimental study used an interrupted time series design. Participants were 55 employees working in an Emergency Medical Communications Center in Iran.

Investigating the effect of background music on cognitive and skill performance: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Existing studies on the impact of background music in the workplace have reported varying results, from improving production and performance to being known as an annoying factor. Given the lack of evidence of the background music influence on the cognitive factors in the work place in previous studies and the lack of study on the effect of background music on skill performance when gender and personality type is considered, research in this area seems necessary.

Objective: The purpose of the present study is to investigate the influence of background music on cognitive and skill performance in the work place with regard to gender and personality type.

Plasmon-enhanced photoresponse of single silver nanowires and their network devices.

The photo-bolometric effect is critically important in optoelectronic structures and devices employing metallic electrodes with nanoscale features due to heating caused by the plasmonic field enhancement. One peculiar case is individual silver nanowires (Ag NWs) and their networks. Ag NW-networks exhibit excellent thermal, electrical, and mechanical properties, providing a simple yet reliable alternative to common flexible transparent electrode materials used in optoelectronic devices.