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INTRODUCTION Despite the importance of quality of life (QOL) in outcomes of cancer pa-tients, there have been a few Iranian studies investigating the Iranian patients' quality of life. The present study aimed to assess the cancer patients' QOL and its related factors. METHODS This cross-sectional study conducted in Shahid Ghazi Tabatabaei Hospital affiliated to Tabriz University of Medical Sc...

This paper deals with R&D priority setting. It advocates for the introduction of strategic capital budgeting methodologies that will unite the hitherto largely independent processes of strategic planning and capital budgeting. Significant advances in economics and finance theory regarding valuing derivative securities, such as futures and options, and in computing power over the past twenty yea...

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