background: lifestyle-modification programs including physical activity are essential for both treatment and prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus ( t2dm ). however, factors associated with physical activity among patients are poorly understood. this study applied social-cognitive theory (sct) for predicting determinants of physical activity among women with t2dm in iran, 2013. methods: in thi...

conclusions this study indicated that health belief model contrasts could predict the risky behavior of university students due to heart disease. however, more researches are needed to verify the predictors of high risky behaviors in students. background disease preventing methods focus mostly on lifestyle factors such as physical activity, healthy diet and not smoking. previous studies verifie...

the pile-raft foundation is a combination of a raft foundation with piles. pile-raft foundation has been widely designed, assuming all structure loads to be transferred to piles without considering contribution of the load taken by contact surface between raft and soil. methods of analysis currently used in practice are based upon relatively conservative assumptions of soil behavior or on the l...

green fig, which is usually consumed as dry fruit, is one of the important non-oil export agricultural commodities of iran. in this study, some important physical properties of green figs including geometric mean diamter, sphericity, porosity, particle and bulk density and pressure drop across a thin bed were measured at constant moisture content of 6% (dry basis). air flow ranges used in this ...

conclusions the results of this study showed that an educational intervention based on transtheoretical model can improve stages of change in physical activity behavior. it can also enhance cognitive factors such as perceived benefits and self-efficacy for exercise up to three months after the intervention, but over the time changes may decrease. results stages of change of physical activity in...

Traditionally, cryptographic algorithms provide security against an adversary who has only black box access to cryptographic devices. That is, the only thing the adversary can do is to query the cryptographic algorithm on inputs of its choice and analyze the responses, which are always computed according to the correct original secret information. However, such a model does not always correspon...

It is well known that HEB devices, whether phonon-cooled or diffusioncooled, exhibit unstable regions of their IV-characteristics. These phenomena occur when the device is not pumped by the LO, or when the LO power is decreased sufficiently compared with the power level required for optimum operation. The bias voltage is between the critical value at which the device stops being superconducting...

introduction in radiography, dose and image quality are dependent on radiographic parameters. the problem is caused from incorrect use of radiography equipment and from the radiation exposure to patients much more than required. therefore, the aim of this study was to implement a quality-control program to detect changes in exposure parameters, which may affect diagnosis or patient radiation do...

background and objective: there is a concern on safety of human fresh frozen plasma (ffp) as it is a source of some medicinal products. the possibility of transmission of blood-borne are reported often due to emerging viruses. there are some pathogen reduction technologies (prt) to inactivate viruses. methylene blue (mb) based method is one of them. the aim of this study was to examine new desi...