background: nowadays, self-medication of therapeutic agents is of global concern particularly in developing and underdeveloped countries. some studies conducted in iran showed that the frequency of self-medication was significant. objective: this research was conducted to estimate the prevalence of arbitrary use of antibiotics in shiraz community with special interest in its determinant factors...

INTRODUCTION When I was invited as an opening speaker for this conference, I was not asked to embed it in what some call the Aarhus tradition that is now giving rise to the fourth decennial international and interdisciplinary scientific event. However, I found that I could not do otherwise. Partly, because I am full of admiration for what has been achieved, and partly because I wonder where the...

In the ultimatum-game, as in many real-life social exchange situations, the selfish motive to maximize own gains conflicts with fairness preferences. In the present study we manipulated the availability of cognitive-control resources for ultimatum-game proposers to test whether preference for fairness is a deliberative cognitive-controlled act or an automatic act. In two experiments we found th...

conclusions persian version of the self-management scale for patients with epilepsy is valid and reliable to measure the dimensions of self-management in iranian patients and it can be used to measure epileptics’ self-management. further research on the safety of this tool is recommended. results the validity of all items was above 0.63 and their content validity indexes (0.81-1) were appropria...

In this paper, we describe how to construct physical computer network topologies which can support the establishment of overlays that reduce or increase the distances between nodes. Reducing pairwise distances (i.e., compression) implies that the overlay enjoys significantly lower inter-node latencies compared to the ambient physical network; such an overlay can be used to implement a “high-per...

The phrase ‘global land grab’ has become a catch-all framework to describe and analyze the current explosion of (trans)national commercial land transactions revolving around the production and sale of food and biofuels. Initially deployed and popularised especially by activist groups deeply concerned and opposed to such transactions from an environmental-agrarian justice perspective, the signif...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare between weight and gender categories the attack and pause times during the 2007 Taekwondo World Championship. METHODS A total of 88 rounds (47 male and 41 female contests) were analyzed. RESULTS There was no difference in attack/balancing times ratio between genders (0.13 ± 0.06 vs 0.13 ± 0.06, P > 0.05). The attack number was significantly hi...