Background :People are increasingly interested in health news. As a mass media, the ‘Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting’ (IRIB) has the highest number of target audiences. In Iran, some people follow health news via health programs on satellites and other means of communication. However, all of these programs do not live up to the standards of scientific evidence. In this study, we examine...

Background: Although the scientific literature has extensively discussed the impact of the media on people’s health-related behaviors, there is little evidence on the effect of different sources of Covid-19 vaccine news on changing the intention to adhere to health protocols. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the news sources of Covid vaccine 19 and the association of ea...

This article is part of a much broader study of persuasive techniques in television news in Iran. As a very important part of IRIB news IRINN has been chosen for this study. If we assume that one of the most influential television news, the power of persuasion to influence the audience is very important. It seemed that choosing the highest hypothetical level of news and deconstructing it would ...

RSNA assembly is the largest international medical meeting in the world. Every year, approximately 60,000 people from 80 countries that are radiologists, radiologic technologists, nurses, and people in the vendor companies of radiologic imaging devices or contrast medium gather together to exchange their ideas on radiology, share new techniques of interventional therapeutic procedure, and demon...

News materials are reports on events occurring in a given time and location. Looking at the influence of individual event, an event that has news reported worldwide is strategically more important than one that is only covered by local news agencies. In fact, news coverage of an event can accurately determine the event’s importance and potential impact on the society. In this paper, we present ...

Since 1974 when the Journal of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons was first published, 179 issues have been published. Considering that the Korean Society of Plastic and Re-constructive Surgeons (KSPRS) was founded in 1966, it is certain that many forerunners in the Society made a great effort to publish the Journal in its embryonic stage. We have finally published six is...

Both dictionary-based and rule-based methods on grapheme-to-phoneme conversion have their own advantages and limitations. For example, a large sized phonetic dictionary and complex morphophonemic rules are required for the dictionary-based method and the LTS(letter to sound) rule-based method itself cannot model the complete morphophonemic constraints. This paper describes a grapheme-to-phoneme...

In a recent issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology (APJMT), the importance of empowering medical toxicology in the Asia Pacific Region has been discussed. In the editorial by Dr. Afshari, it has been stated that national societies of medical toxicology are important infrastructure for the development of medical toxicology, and the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology ...

one of the most important concepts in financial statement analysis and evaluation is conservatism. thus recognition of the factors which influence conservatism can considerably help the investor in managing the selection of more conservative assets properly and avoiding the untrue exposure of financial statements. this research is about to consider the relation of effective factors on organizat...