A cure for burnout

A Comprehensive Model for Identifying and Explaining Factors Affecting Burnout

Thisstudy provided a comprehensive model for identifying and explaining factors affecting burnout of faculty members. In this study, a descriptive-exploratory method with in-depth interviews were used. It was an applied, quantitative and non-experimental research. The instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire whose items were identified based on the review of secondary sources  as well as ...

A New Method for Sperm Detection in Infertility Cure: Hypothesis Testing Based on Fuzzy Entropy Decision

In this paper, a new method is introduced for sperm detection in microscopic images for infertility treatment. In this method, firstly a hypothesis testing function is defined to separate sperms from plasma, non-sperm semen particles and noise. Then, some primary candidates are selected for sperms by watershed-based segmentation algorithm. Finally, candidates are either confirmed or rejected us...

A Cure for Scorpion Stings

Sir,?I have read with great interest the letter of Dr. Mudaliar that has appeared under the above heading in the Novembei 1939 issue (p. 715) of your journal. About 18 years ago when I was at Banbassa (Terai forest) in connection with the Sarda Canal works, I came across many hundreds of cases of scorpion sting. Almost every day dozens of men from the labouring class used to come smitten with i...

A Cure for Scorpion Stings

What price for a cure?

Although there is a large health, social, and economic burden of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the United States, the number of persons infected with HCV in Rhode Island (RI) is unknown. To inform the expansion of HCV-related public health efforts in RI, and because surveillance data are lacking and national surveys, including the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)...