I am very proud and excited for the future of the Asian Oncology Nursing Society (AONS). The vision over eight years ago of developing an Asian organization has clearly become a reality. I am very grateful to have received a plaque of appreciation from AONS President, Myungsun Yi along with my colleagues Kazuko Onishi from Japan and Pongpak Pittayapan from Thailand. However, I would be remiss i...

Motivated by applications in Markov estimation and distributed computing, we deene the blanket time of an undirected graph G to be the expected time for a random walk to hit every vertex of G within a constant factor of the number of times predicted by the stationary distribution. Thus the blanket time is, essentially, the number of steps required of a random walk in order that the observed dis...

studies on vegetation changes of rangelands under grazed and non-grazedconditions are of great importance in the range management planning programs. to determinethe change process of vegetation, this study was performed in inche shorezar site of golestanprovince for nine years (1997-2005). the vegetation parameters were measured every year inseveral fixed plots inside and adjacent of exclosures...

The research process for new drug is complicated, time-consuming, and costly. Thousands of chemical compounds must be made and tested in an effort to find one that can achieve a desirable result. It may take approximately ten years to study and test a new drug before it can be approved for the general public. However, in today's pharmaceutical industry drug delivery has become keys in drug prod...

Su bj ec t G ra de an d Te ac he rs ' Co m m en ts Jo b G ro w th A W ag es N ee ds Im pr ov em en t; So m e ex tr a te st in g w ou ld he lp Pr op er ty Va lu es A + N ew Co m pa ni es B + In du st ry M ix B From 1999 to 2002, American communities with broadband access did signifi cantly better than those without access does matter to the economy, just as common sense would say it should. .. "...

abstract background: after the umbilical cord is cut, premature neonates face numerous problems including hypothermia. with regard to serious complications of hypothermia and incapability of conventional methods in preservation of neonates’ temperature after admission, the researcher decided to conduct a study on the effects of two polyethylene covers in prevention of hypothermia among prematur...

Dust events of Iran mainly originate from Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and inland territories which are influenced by droughts and Land Use/Land Cover (LU/LC) degradation in regional scale. The aim of this research was to investigate the impact of Regional Vegetation Cover Degradation (RVCD), particularly Regional Rangeland Cover Degradation (RRCD) on frequency of dusty days in western pro...