in recent years,internet-based banking services have become the focus of competition in iran’s banking system. in this respect, internet banking users’ identification and segmentation leads to better understanding of users’ needs and expectations and planning to meet them. this in turn will result in improving the image of the bank and obtaining competitive advantage. in this research, seven ba...

in the commercial banking activities, efficiency is an important issue for the bank managers, monitoring part and clients. this study has appraised the efficiency performance of the commercial banks in iran. the research method has been using windows data envelopment analysis with constant and variable returns to scale and input oriented model at the period of 1991-2006. the sample of study was...

brovascular occlusive disease, or from peripheral arterial occlusive disease. As shown in Table 1, there were distinctly higher homocysteine concentrations for seropositive subjects in subgroups of age, renal function, smoking status, and MTHFR gene mutations. These variables influencing serum homocysteine, as well as vitamin B 6 , vitamin B 12 , and folic acid, are moreover homogeneously (not ...

With the technical assistance of William Urban Previous studies have shown abnormalities of the arterial pulse wave in hypertensive subjects of all age groups. The major change has been diminution to disappearance of the dicrotic wave. The pharmacologic differences between epinephrine and norepi-nephrine offer a means of studying the mechanism of this change in the dicrotic wave. In the present...

Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) has emerged as a novel target for stratification of cardiometabolic risk factors because of its distinctive location and multifac-eted metabolic properties with systemic and local effects. Because EAT is not separated from adjacent myocardium or the coronary artery vascular wall by fascia, it is possible that EAT might belong to the endocrine active assemblage of...

P revention of cardiovascular disease is an important therapeutic goal in patients with type 2 diabetes melli-tus (1). Although a low dose of aspirin is recommended for this purpose, some patients were resistant to aspirin (2). We previously reported that spontaneous mi-croaggregation of platelets (SMAPs) formed under no stimulation with exoge-nous agonists were frequently observed in type 2 di...

facilitative transport of glucose across animal cell membranes is mediated by members of the Glut protein family (1). These 50-to 60-kDa glyco-proteins are ubiquitously expressed in mammalian tissues and are responsible for the uptake of sugar from the blood into cells, supplying cellular glucose for ATP production and for a wide variety of anabolic reactions. Additionally, glucose transport in...

purpose: this study investigated the relationship between organizational factors and job burnout using descriptive-analytical method (correlational) at bank melli iran in the city of mahabad. materials and methods: fifty employees occupied in this organization were participated in the present study, using random selection method. questionnaire was means of collecting data. the studied variables...

background: the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors of the sensory neuropathy in type 2 diabetic patients referring to yazd diabetes research center. neuropathy is one of the most common complications of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes melli-tus. material and methods: this is a cross-sectional study on 2350 diabetic patients (1071 male, 1279 female) referred to ya...