Introduction: There are significant gender differences in the epidemiology and presentation of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), physiological aspects of CVDs, response to diagnostic tests or interventions, and prevalence or incidence of the associated risk factors. Considering the independent influence of gender on early dire consequences of such diseases, this study was conducted to investigate...

This study aims at determining the personality traits and investment patterns in the stock market and presenting the pattern with a behavioral finance approach. This is an applied, descriptive- survey, and cross-sectional study. The statistical population includes real investors in the Tehran Stock Exchange. The required information was collected using questionnaire and was analyzed using SPSS ...

A Fuzzy Behavioral Portfolio model (FBPM) is proposed for security investment with insufficient market information and uncertain emotion influence on investment return and risk. Based on the general behavioral portfolio theory, trapezoidal fuzzy number is employed to characterize investment return and risk. Text emotion analysis based on emotional lexicons is introduced to obtain the market inv...

background: routine dysplasia screening decreases the rates of cervical cancer. since many women seek gynecological care to secure contraception, it was hypothesized that sterilized women will be less likely to undergo routine cervical cancer screening. prior studies tried to evaluate this relationship, but results were conflicting. the study sought to further explore the sociodemographic and b...

one of the identified risk factors for anxiety disorders in adolescence and adulthood is inhibited behaviors in childhood. the present study sought to examine the relationship between behavioral inhibition with some of the internal (personal) and external (family environment) factors in a sample of preschool children in kindergartens. in a cross sectional study in 2009, data was collected troug...

The study of workarounds (WA) has increased in importance due to their impact on patient safety and efficiency. However, there are no adequate theories to explain the motivation to create and use a workaround in a healthcare sitting. Although theories of technology acceptance help to understand the reasons to accept or reject technology, they fail to explain drivers for alternatives. Also worka...

Obesity is considered as a gateway to chronic diseases and disabilities effecting all age groups of the population. Profound changes in society, worldwide nutrition transition and behavioural patterns of communities over recent decades reflect the rising epidemic. Prevention and management of obesity has become one of the most important objective of the health care sector.As obesity is a chroni...

At present, only three risk factors for prostate cancer have been firmly established; these are all nonmodifiable: age, race, and a positive family history of prostate cancer. However, numerous modifiable factors have also been implicated in the development of prostate cancer. In the current review, we summarize the epidemiologic data for age, location, and selected behavioral factors in relati...