introduction: the objective of the study was to develop an instrument to measure patient education content. materials and methods: first of all, literature searches were undertaken to determine current national and international patient education questionnaires. then a forty five item questionnaire was developed. questionnaires were filled by 399 patients in surgery wards of kerman medical hosp...

the purpose of this article was to review the biocompatibility, physical, and mechanical properties of the polyamide denture base materials. an electronic search of scientific papers from 1990-2014 was carried out using pubmed, scopus and wiley inter science engines using the search terms “nylon denture base” and “polyamide denture base”. searching the key words yielded a total of 82 articles. ...

Background: Diabetes is a metabolic disorder which presents itself with symptoms such as blurry vision, thirst and weight loss. It is a disease that is more common in childhood whereby the body cannot produce enough insulin. Objectives: To explore the challenges experienced by diabetic teenagers. Results: Checking of sugar levels and injecting of insulin was indicated as one of the major diffic...

BACKGROUND Previous studies showed that high dose of caffeine intake may induce some specific human reproductive system diseases, even lead to infertility. OBJECTIVES In consideration of the high consumption of caffeine according to the latest population-based survey, this review is aimed to systematically review the evidence from all controlled clinical studies of caffeine intake for inferti...

OBJECTIVE To identify the instruments used to assess polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) in published studies. METHODS A systematic literature review of clinical trials and longitudinal observational studies related to PMR, published from 1970 to 2014, was carried out. All outcome and assessment instruments were extracted and categorized according to core areas and domains, as defined by the OMERACT...

Topic models are a family of statistical-based algorithms to summarize, explore and index large collections of text documents. After a decade of research led by computer scientists, topic models have spread to social science as a new generation of data-driven social scientists have searched for tools to explore large collections of unstructured text. Recently, social scientists have contributed...

With increasing competition, companies must shorten their product development cycle times, reduce costs, and increase flexibility, all the while maintaining world-class capabilities. An effective way of handling these issues is to focus on an outsourcing strategy and develop relationships with companies that have the required expertise. This thesis provides a conceptual framework for formulatin...