Introduction: Menopause a critical phase in women life, is defined as last menses and can be declared after 12 months of amenorrhea. Menopause is accompanied by several distressing symptoms that burden patient`s quality of life. Moreover menopause is associated with several cardiovascular and bone complications. Cardiovascular complications are also major cause of mortality among women. Intensi...

OBJECTIVES To assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding cervical cancer screening among Kuwaiti women. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 300 married Kuwaiti women were randomly selected from those who visited the clinics irrespective of reason(s) for the visit. A structured questionnaire covering sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge, attitude, and practice related to cervica...

Based on common comments that elite players in soccer and ice-hockey often looked “older” than nonplayers of the same age, the authors examined the research literature but found that very few studies had been conducted in the area of elite sport and biological age. We therefore decided to conduct a pilot study comparing professional elite ice hockey players (EP) (22 males, M = 24.7 years) with ...

In the strap-down inertial navigation system (SINS), the initial attitude matrix is acquired through alignment. Though there were multiple valid methods, alignment time and accuracy are still core issues, especially regarding the condition of the motion carrier. Inspired by the idea of constructing nonlinear vectors by velocity in a different coordinate frame, this paper proposes an innovative ...

In expected utility theory, risk attitudes are modeled entirely in terms of utility. In the rank-dependent theories, a new dimension is added: chance attitude, modeled in terms of nonadditive measures or nonlinear probability transformations that are independent of utility. Most empirical studies of chance attitude assume probabilities given and adopt parametric fitting for estimating the proba...

The purpose of the study is to estimate the optimal release conditions for male and female world discus record holders of 1998 under no wind and in the wind. The estimation was achieved by using numerical methods to deal with the lift and drag coefficients in Ganslen’s wind tunnel tests of discus. The results showed that under no wind, when the release height of both male and female holders was...

a:4:{s:10:"Background";s:414:"Surrogacy is one of the most popular ART methods which is used when a woman is not able to breed a fetus through pregnancy in her own uterus. Gestational surrogacy is approved by law and religion in Iran. Infertile couple's decisions between possible treatments are influenced by their knowledge and attitudes. The aim of this study is to compare knowledge and attitu...

background: normal vaginal delivery (nvd) is defined as the best method of delivery. however, unfortunately its rate is decreasing because of the increasing rate of cesarean section (c/s). low level of knowledge about delivery mode and negative attitude toward nvd are some of the reasons for the patients selecting cesarean. the purpose of this study is to assess the knowledge and attitudes of p...