background: smoking is the cause for many preventable deaths worldwide. the rate of smoking has not increased in iran in the past two decades, but its increase among adolescents and young adults is a concern. this study investigates the risk factors of initiation and continuation of smoking in iran using a qualitative approach. methods: this is a qualitative content analysis study conducted on ...

most studies within the area of genre analysis, particularly those conducted in iran, have exclusively used text analysis. while such investigations have led to important understandings of generic features of texts, it can be argued that incorporating interview data for triangulation can lead to better understanding of generic features of texts. along this line, this paper reports the results o...

INTRODUCTION Interprofessional collaboration among health care professionals yields improved patient outcomes, yet many students in health care programs have limited exposure to interprofessional collaboration in the classroom and in clinical and service-learning experiences. This practice gap implies that students enter their professions without valuing interprofessional collaboration and the ...

BACKGROUND Various treatments such as hemodialysis prolong the life of chronic renal failure disease patients who must tolerate many physical, emotional, social and economic difficulties. Therefore, social support is considered as a vital area of investigation for such patients. OBJECTIVES In this qualitative research, a grounded theory approach was used and written as a content analysis form...

The paper presents an intelligent hybrid approach for content-based image retrieval based on texture feature. The proposed approach employs an Auto–Associative Neural Network (AANN) for feature extraction and a Multi–Layer Perceptron (MLP) with a single hidden layer for the classification. Two intelligent approaches such as AANN–MLP and statistical–MLP were investigated. The performance of the ...

Hydroquinone is one of the dangerous ingredients in facial whitening cream cosmetics which can cause skin irritation, redness and a burning feeling. The purpose this study was to determine hydroquinone content sold marketplace. method used qualitative test using colour reagent Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) with toluene:glacial acetic acid as mobile phase (5:5) Silica Gel254 Plate stationary p...