Comparison of the effectiveness of the electronic portfolio and online discussion forum methods in teaching professional belonging and ethical behaviors to nursing students: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Nursing is a profession that has had many ethical aspects and understanding professional belonging and ethics as a deep and complex process is one of the basic concepts in this field. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of training professional belonging and ethical behaviors in two methods: electronic portfolio and online discussion forum in nursing students.

Methods: This study is a single-blinded randomized-controlled trial (RCT) with two parallel intervention groups and a third control group.

Association between health locus of control and perceived stress in college student during the COVID-19 outbreak: a cross-sectional study in Iran.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic as a global mental health crisis has affected everyone, including students. The present study aimed to determine and investigate the relationship between health locus of control and perceived stress in students of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences (southern Iran) during the outbreak of COVID-19.

Methods: The present cross-sectional study examined 250 students of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences.

Case report: Diagnosis and emergency surgery on a young patient with extensive aortic dissection without any risk factors.

Background: Type A aortic dissection is a very dangerous, fatal, and emergency condition for surgery. Acute aortic dissection is a rare condition, such that many patients will not survive without reconstructive surgery.

Case Presentation: We present a case 24-year-old male who came with symptoms of shortness of breath and cough.

Electrocardiography in Early Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Complications of COVID-19; a Systematic Literature Review.

Introduction: Many reports have stated that patients admitted for COVID-19 may also suffer from cardiovascular diseases, suggesting cardiovascular involvement in COVID-19. Since there is direct association between electrocardiography (ECG) data and the prognosis of cardiovascular disease, a systematic literature review was performed in the present study to address this association and make a conclusive agreement on the early diagnostic and prognostic values of ECG in patients with COVID-19.

Methods: Electronic databases including PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Science Direct, Ovid, Embase, and Google Scholar were searched for "COVID-19" and "ECG" using all their equivalents and similar terms as search words.

Nuclear model calculations on the production of auger electron emitter In: As a theranostic radionuclide.

The main goal of this study is the production investigation of the In as a diagnostic and mighty radionuclide in nuclear medicine especially in the Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) technique. Excitation functions based on four main phenomenological level density models were evaluated for the induced reactions; namely, Ag(α,2n), Cd(d,n),Cd(p,n),Cd(p,2n),Cd(p,xn) and Cd(d,xn) using the TALYS-1.8 and EMPIRE-3.

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) for neurodegenerative disease: A promising frontier.

Neurodegenerative disorders are a variety of diseases including Alzheimer's (AD), Parkinson's (PD), and Huntington's diseases (HD), multiple sclerosis (MS) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) along with some other less common diseases generally described by the advanced deterioration of central or peripheral nervous system, structurally or functionally. In the last two decades, mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) due to their unique assets encompassing self-renewal, multipotency and accessibility in association with low ethical concern open new frontiers in the context of neurodegenerative diseases therapy. Interestingly, MSCs can be differentiated into endodermal and ectodermal lineages (e.