background it is known that risk factors related to neonatal bacterial sepsis are complex. objectives the current study aimed to determine the risk factors of neonatal sepsis. materials and methods this study was conducted on 1023 neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care units (nicus) in south sinai governorate hospitals from january 2010 till september 2014. demographic data of the neonate...

Theories suggest that both risk and mispricing are associated with commonality in returns, and information associated with this commonality can be used to predict future returns. However, empirically implemented factor pricing models rarely incorporate psychological factors. I propose to augment standard factor models with behavioral factors to capture commonality in mispricing caused by psycho...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa introduction: hepatitis b is one of the world's health problems and increased the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma and liver cirrhosis. medical students exposed to risk because of future job, and being infected than the general population. this study will survey level of knowledge, risk perception and behavioral intention medical students about hepa...

background & aim: evaluation of prevalence of risk factors for breast cancer in different regions of iran and identification of their significant effect on this disease can promote the prevention and reduction of breast cancer incidence. therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the prevalence, demographic characteristics, and frequency of the risk factors of breast cancer during 10 years. method...

conclusions sphingomonas paucimobilis can cause serious infections, especially in immunocompromised patients with determined risk factors such as indwelling catheters and diabetes mellitus, due to the effects of multiple virulence factors, together with biofilm formation. results all the clinical isolates of s. paucimobilis produced biofilms. primary bacteraemia (n = 16) was the most common cli...

OBJECTIVE Multiple factors predict early alcohol initiation in teenagers. Among these are genetic risk factors, childhood behavioral problems, life events, lifestyle, and family environment. We constructed a developmental prediction model for alcohol initiation below the Dutch legal drinking age (16 years), elaborating on the pathways identified by earlier studies. METHOD A set of 22 prospect...

factors influencing behavioral reaction of corn farmers to mitigate production risks in kermanshah township region constituted the main purpose followed in this descriptive-correlational study. the study population was comprised of corn farmers of kermanshah township who cultivated corn during the farming year 2009-2010 (n= 3239).a sample of 340 farmers was selected through systematic random sa...

Introduction: There are significant gender differences in the epidemiology and presentation of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), physiological aspects of CVDs, response to diagnostic tests or interventions, and prevalence or incidence of the associated risk factors. Considering the independent influence of gender on early dire consequences of such diseases, this study was conducted to investigate...

This study aims at determining the personality traits and investment patterns in the stock market and presenting the pattern with a behavioral finance approach. This is an applied, descriptive- survey, and cross-sectional study. The statistical population includes real investors in the Tehran Stock Exchange. The required information was collected using questionnaire and was analyzed using SPSS ...

background: routine dysplasia screening decreases the rates of cervical cancer. since many women seek gynecological care to secure contraception, it was hypothesized that sterilized women will be less likely to undergo routine cervical cancer screening. prior studies tried to evaluate this relationship, but results were conflicting. the study sought to further explore the sociodemographic and b...