the asian financial crisis in 1997 has awakened the regulators and corporates on the importance of corporate governance. according to agency theory, a good corporate governance system is necessary for more transparent information disclosure about the corporation. accordingly, the objective of this study is evaluating the level of disclosure in banks and examine the relationship between some fea...

background: considering the effect of preterm delivery in morbidity and mortality of newborns, its precaution and prevention is so important. objective: to investigate the association between second trimester maternal serum biomarkers (human chorionic gonadotropin, alpha-fetoprotein, non-conjugated estrogen, inhibin a) and pre-term delivery. materials and methods: this is a historical cohort st...

Stamler stated ‘the relation of SBP [systolic blood pressure] to risk of death is continuous, graded, and strong, and there is no evidence of a threshold . . .’. The formulation of this ‘lower the better’ principle, in terms of the linear logistic model (often referred to simply as the linear model) is the paradigm for the relationship of all cardiovascular risks to blood pressure and forms the...