Introduction: The existence of standard tools is one of the basic needs of scientists of healthy behavior for predicting health-related behaviors. The aim of the present study was to design a psychometrically sound instrument to measure the protection motivation theory constructs regarding self-medication for elderly Iranians. Methods: The study was conducted in spring 2016. The sample con...

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) provides detailed, real-time information on the structure and composition of constructs used in tissue engineering. The focus of this work is the OCT three-dimensional assessment of scaffolding architecture and distribution of cells on it. PLGA scaffolds were imaged in two and three-dimensions, both seeded and unseeded with cells. Then two types of scaffolds w...

Abstract Partial Isometries are important constructs that help give nontrivial solutions once a simple solution is known. We generalize this notion to Extended Partial Isometries and include operators which have right inverses but no left inverses (or vice versa). We find a large class of such operators and show the moduli space to contain the Hilbert Scheme of Points. Further, we apply this te...

Study objectives: We tested the hypothesis that descriptors of breathlessness represent distinct and separable cognitive constructs, and predicted that the use of descriptors of breathlessness by healthy individuals is the same as their use by patients with cardiopulmonary disease. Design: Cluster analyses obtained in healthy individuals were compared with those obtained previously in patients ...

conclusions according to the results of the study, health-promoting model-based self-care behaviors can help identify and predict cardiac surgery patients’ lifestyles in iran. this pattern can be used as a framework for discharge planning and the implementation of educational interventions to improve the lifestyles of cabg patients. background advances in coronary artery surgery have reduced pa...

BACKGROUND Information on patient experience and satisfaction with individual physicians could play an important role for performance measures, improved health care and health literacy. Physician rating sites (PRSs) bear the potential to be a widely available source for this kind of information. However, patient experience and satisfaction are complex constructs operationalized by multiple dime...

The constructive idea of sustainability has been narrowed to three dimensions, i.e., social, economic and environment. extant researches on have examined the environmental dimensions. social proportion, a prime aspect, some extent overlooked both in method review literature as well. In this study, through in-depth review, researcher made an effort execution socially responsible supply chains co...

neighborhood attachment is closely related to concrete and abstract conceptions that set the scene for a variety of interactions among the residents. it is on the basis of social-physical location which happens over time. neighborhood attachment also enhances the possibility of residents’ social participation in urban neighborhoods and has a bilateral relationship with residents’ satisfaction. ...

This study aimed to evaluate whether cognitive and affective dimensions of reading self-concepts in English Russian are distinct constructs examine the relationships among variables invariant across gender. A total 349 tenth-grade Azeri students were selected from 12 schools Baku, Azerbaijan. adapted Self-Description Questionnaire Cényelvi mérés for assessment achievements two foreign languages...