s. farahbakhsh

The use of Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST) in blunt abdominal trauma has various advantages and disadvantages. Considering the importance of timely diagnosis of blunt abdominal traumas, the question is whether it is possible to manage these patients only by performing FAST in the emergency room? Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of comparing the diagnostic accuracy of FAST with CT-Scan in patients with blunt abdominal trauma.

This cross-sectional study was conducted on 400 patients with blunt abdominal trauma referred to the emergency department of affiliated teaching hospitals of Kerman University of Medical Sciences in 2020. Data were obtained by examining the medical records of the patients. The results of FAST were compared with the results of abdominal and pelvic CT scan (as a gold standard), diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) and laparotomy results (as a gold standard in case of unclear CT-Scan results) and the sensitivity, specificity, the positive and negative predictive value and its accuracy were determined.

The mean age of the participants was 36.27±10.44 years. 72.5% of them were men. The most common organ involved was the liver (73%). Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and accuracy of FAST were equal to 75.1 (73.4-79.6), 91.7 (89.4-94.7), 94.1 (92.7-96.3), 77.2 (75.7-79.6) and 83.7 (80.3-85.5), respectively. Also, the odds ratio of FAST in detecting free fluid was 1335.3, injury to intra-abdominal organs was 7.53 and it was 28.9 for all cases.

The results of the study showed that FAST sonography in the emergency room is a suitable method for diagnosing free intra-abdominal fluid following blunt trauma, but it cannot properly diagnose the location of the injury.

Today, due to the dynamic environmental changes, higher education system, like other systems, requires change. Given the role of faculty members in the quality development of provided services by the university, identification the required capabilities can play a significant role in improving these services. The main purpose of this research is to developing a professional Capabilities Model to Talented Faculty Members at Comprehensive Universities with Regional Performance level.

This is an applied & explanatory mixed method research. To this purpose, 19 knowledgeable academic and executive experts were selected purposefully and with a theoretical sampling strategy and interviewed in a semi-structured way. In the quantitative section, 13 interviewees answered the questionnaire. To analyze the data, the thematic analysis technique was used for qualitative section and one sample t-test  in quantitative section as well. To ensure the validity of the research, reviewed by members (interviewees) and the triangulation of the data sources methods were used. Also, to calculate coding reliability, retest and the inter coder agreement reliability were used.

Scientific capability, research capability, The power of expression and content transmissions, The ability to provide an idea, class management, Ability to use the theory and practice, and professional consultation are important capabilities that comprehensive regional universities should pay attention to when selecting faculty members. Also, the results of t test (18.66) indicated that the model had sufficient and appropriate reliability to predict faculty members' professional Capabilities(p<0.01).

The results showed for selecting faculty members, Comprehensive universities with regional performance levels should pay particular attention to scientific, research, consulting, the power of expression, ideation, class management and applied theory in practice. The model was designed in this study can help to achieve this mission in these universities.

Black cumin (Bunium persicum Bioss) is a small and perennial herbaceous plant. During the first year of the growth, this plant produces only cotyledon leaves and small root that becomes to underground tuber after growth. Lack of sufficient rainfall with irregular patterns over black cumin growing areas cause drought stress during different growth periods of plant, especially during the first and the second years of plant growth when tubers do not well formed. Therefore, this study was planned to evaluate moisture stress impacts on the growth of black cumin during the first year of its growth.

In order to investigate the effect of moisture stress on black cumin, an experiment was carried out in a factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with three replications at College of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad during 2014. The factors were included plant population in three levels (Kuhbanan, Sirjan and Kalat) and three levels of moisture stress [100, 75 and 50% of Field Capacity (FC)].
During mid-April, seed dormancy was broken by the GA and chilling. Germinated seed were planted in pots (diameter 10 cm, height 15 cm) at a depth of 1-2 cm. Pots was irrigated at FC level for up to two weeks after seedling establishment . After that pots weighted, and if the weight decreased from FC, added water to reach the desired pot weight. At the end of the growing period (seven weeks after drought stress in mid-June) all plants in each pot were harvested. Plant height, root length, shoot and root dry weight, tuber diameter and tubbering percentage were measured. Samples of shoot and root were placed in oven at 75°c for 24 hours and then their dry weight were measured by a digital scale with accuracy of 0.001 g.
Statistical analysis was performed by using the software MSTATC and the means were compared by using the LSD test.

The results showed that the differences between populations for all traits were significant, except for root length and shoot/root dry weight ratio,. The effects of moisture stress and population and their interactions were significant for all traits. Plants in all populations, at 50% FC were killed due to drought stress. Kalat population at 75% FC had the maximum length of roots and shoots. Also, at 75% FC Sirjan population had the most reduction in shoot dry weight. At 75% FC Kuhbanan and Sirjan populations had 15% reduction in height while this reduction in Kalat population was 24%. Root dry weight at 75% FC in all populations was less than 100% of FC. In all population the tuber was formed only at 100% FC and plants grown at 75% FC did not produce tubers.

Results demonstrated that reducing the soil moisture from 100% FC had negative impacts on the growth traits of black cumin. Since the black cumin is a perennial plant, it would be useful to study the effects of moisture stress during different years