INTRODUCTION Healthy People (HP) is the US program that formulates and tracks national health objectives for the nation. The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is a designated data source for setting and evaluating several HP targets in cancer. We used data from the 2008 and 2010 NHIS to provide a benchmark for national performance toward meeting HP 2020 cancer-related objectives. METHOD...

VII Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Chapter 2: Objectives and Hypotheses 3 Chapter 3: Methodology 5 A. Experimental sites 5 B. Experimental Design 5 C. Measurements and Field Data Collection 6 D. Data Analysis 6 Chapter 4: Results 11 A. General 11 B. Patterns of height growth 11 C. Patterns of diameter growth 14 D. Height – Diameter Ratio 16 E. Crown development 16 F. Individual tree volume growth 17...

this is a semi experimental survey with the main goal of identifying effects of the use of fundal pressure in causing complication from the time of the woman,s entrance into the delivery room to the time of discharge from the hospital.   210 women took part in this survey, 70 of which were in the research and 140 in the observed group. the necessary data about the subject of the study were gath...

organizational cynicism is one of the issues that attract the interest of behavioral scholars and scientists because of its impact on the organizational performance. the goal of this research is measuring the level of organizational cynicism in employees of qom universities. in terms of goal, this is an applied research while it is a descriptive survey-type in terms of data collection method. t...

goal: the goal of this research is to evaluate iranian state university websites using wai . method: this study is descriptive and delphi survey. the research sample consists of 100 iranian state university websites. data collection was used by checklists that prepared in the wai. results: assessing of the iranian state university websites according to five main criteria (accessibility, speed, ...

Purpose Goal setting is an essential rehabilitation activity. However, multidisciplinary staff goal-setting practice with stroke survivors aphasia and associated training needs are not well understood.Methods We designed, piloted, conducted a survey of in the UK, Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, Ireland. Analysis included descriptive statistics, chi-square Fisher’s exact tests, qualitat...

In honor cultures, maintaining a positive moral reputation (e.g., being known as an honest person) is highly important, whereas in dignity self-respect competence and success) strongly emphasized. Depending on their cultural background, people respond differently to threats these two dimensions of honor. studies, we examined the effects morality-focused competence-focused people’s goal pursuit ...

the purpose of this survey was to examine the relationship between packaging and food products consumer behaviors in refah chain stores in iran. this research in terms of goal is an application research and regarding data collection method, it is a survey-descriptive. one-way repeated measures analysis of variance was used to compare the impacts of packaging elements, visual and informational, ...

there has been more than four decades since frank hole and kent flannery conducted a field expedition in central zagros mountains located in western iran, in 1963. from then onward, numerous discoveries and field projects have been done in this region. some of these findings may contradict the report of the original survey. although the goal of this article by no means, is to criticize the 1967...