background: community pharmacies are considered as ideal settings to provide cardiovascular risk screening (crs). however, little is known about pharmacists’ views on providing such services in developing countries including iran. in the present study, we evaluated the pharmacists’ attitudes and perceived barriers to providing crs services. methods: in a cross-sectional study, a questionnaire i...

A set is a collection of items. To specify a set, the items are written as a list enclosed by braces, e.g. A = {1, 2, 4}. This means that A is the set containing the items 1, 2, and 4. There is no notion of order in the set listing, so {1, 2, 4} = {4, 1, 2} = {2, 4, 1}, etc. Also, there is no notion of duplicate items, so {1, 2, 1} = {1, 2} for example. The empty set is the set containing no it...

Introduction: Extreme weather or climate, including heat waves and cold waves, is considered a health issue causing adverse effects on health, such as cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), mortality and morbidity. Thus, this systematic review aimed to study the impacts of extreme ambient temperature on cardiovascular outcomes. Material and Methods: This study was carried out based on the Preferred R...

Multiple-object tracking is the ability to attend (keep track of) the positions of multiple target items as they move among other items. The performance of young and older adults (M = 19 and 73 years old, respectively) was compared in two versions of a tracking task in which participants were required to monitor the positions of 1-4 moving targets in a field of 10 moving items. All participants...

Discrimination of quantity (magnitude) was investigated in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Male zebrafish chose to approach the location previously occupied by the larger in number between 2 groups of female conspecifics (no longer visible at test) in sets of 1 versus 2 items, and 2 versus 3 items, but failed at 3 versus 4 items; similarly, when tested with larger numbers, zebrafish succeeded with 2 v...