A principal wishes to ascertain an agent’s true profile in order to decide whether or not to accept his request. The principal designs a questionnaire regarding the agent’s profile and commits himself to accept the request if the agent’s answers satisfy certain conditions. The agent is boundedly rational in that he cannot fully understand the principal’s conditions and can only detect certain "...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Regular postanesthesia visits allow the detection of anesthesia related complications and increase patient satisfaction. Consequently, the performance of postanesthesia visits has been recommended after certain types of anesthesia. However, no data is available concerning the current practice of postanesthesia visits. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate qu...

Background: Spiritual well-being is an important issue in health sciences, hence the need for validated instruments to assess this aspect of health in the Iranian population. The aim of the current study was to determine the validity of the Persian versions of 2 most common measures of spiritual health (Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire [SWBQ] or Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure [...

Objectives. This study investigated whether women experience self-presentational concerns related to rehabilitation settings and explored preferences for characteristics of the social and physical treatment environment in relation to women's Social Physique Anxiety (SPA). Methods. Two cross-sectional studies were conducted. In Study 1, female undergraduate students (n = 134) completed four ques...

BACKGROUND There are no current instruments to facilitate population screening for rosacea. OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate a screening instrument for rosacea applicable for population surveys. METHODS A rosacea-specific screening instrument (Rosascreen), consisting of a subject-completed questionnaire and screening algorithm, was developed based on current diagnostic criteria for rosacea...

nowadays, countries realize that without having knowledge and technology, they may not export advantaged goods to the global market. generally, technology and knowledge accumulation play vital role for reaching high economic growth rate and economic development. the statistical reports show that iran has not been successful in the high-tech export area; base on those reports, iran’s high-tech e...