Highlights and hot topics in the management of COPD: where are we heading?

Where is Patient Safety Research and Practice Heading? A Response to Recent Commentaries

The Use of Housing System in the Management of Heat Stress in Poultry Production in Hot and Humid Climate: a Review

There is a gap between the population growth and protein supply in many tropical countries where per capita income is low and the majority of people consume less protein than a daily standard for recommended protein intake. Poultry egg production remains the fastest route to bridging the protein demand-supply gap in these regions. However, poultry are faced with heat stress in the tropics which...

Skew-slash distribution and its application in topics regression

In many issues of statistical modeling, the common assumption is that observations are normally distributed. In many real data applications, however, the true distribution is deviated from the normal. Thus, the main concern of most recent studies on analyzing data is to construct and the use of alternative distributions. In this regard, new classes of distributions such as slash and skew-sla...

بررسی شیوع بیماری پوکی استخوان در بیماران مرد مبتلا به بیماری انسدادی مزمن ریه

    Background & Aim: Osteoporosis is a significant problem in patients with advanced COPD(chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). It is followed by fractures which make life conditions worse for these patients. Several studies demonstrated the relationship between osteoporosis and COPD. This study was designed to determine the prevalence of osteoporosis in male patients with COPD. Patients & M...

The implications of piecewise linear process of normal accruals

The present study investigates whether the basic assumption in the Jones model, which normal accruals are a linear function of change in sales, is empirically valid. It also discusses and addresses the implications of the assumption violation in the earnings management detection tests. The research employs a sample of 2832 observations of the annual information of firms listed in Tehran Stock E...