gastrointestinal (gi) cancers are a significant source of morbidity and mortality in iran, with stomach adenocarcinoma as the most common cancer in men and the second common cancer in women. also, some parts of northern iran have one of the highest incidences of esophageal cancer in the world. multi-disciplinary organ-based joint clinics and tumor boards are a well-recognized necessity for mode...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of corporate governance mechanisms in preventing the bankruptcy of companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. For this purpose, corporate governance mechanisms, including institutional ownership, non-executive members of the board, CEO dual responsibility and free float stock are determined as independent variables and Bankruptcy based on the ...

This paper outlines a few of the more promising chip scale package configurations and discusses where they stand with respect to some of the ideal requirements for a CSP. These criteria being, low cost, a good fit to the infrastructure, and excellent board level reliability. Measured against these criteria, none of these packages has emerged as a clear winner. This paper will address a new pate...

concessionaire: ayatollah ahmad beheshti managing editor: mohsen izadi editor in chif: saeid beheshti executive manager: mahdi behshti     editorial board editorial board hasan ebrahimi: assistant professor, tehran university. saeid behshti: associate professor, allameh tabatabaei university. mansoor pahlavan: professor, tehran university. mohammad zabihi: associate professor qom university. ab...

Who can you trust? In everyday life, people regularly distinguish between more and less trustworthy individuals. 1 In medical contexts, patients and research participants build impressions of the trustworthiness of caregivers and clinicians, and these impressions shape their decisions. 2 , 3 It is tempting to think that people in certain offi cial roles do not— or at least should not—allow thes...

The MIT MEng team of four worked with Konarka Technologies, a world leading organic solar panel manufacturer, on production tracking and analysis as well as various operational improvement projects. MIT's collaborative improvement projects at Konarka's manufacturing facility were focused on information system and operations in the finishing processes after solar panels have been coated. This th...

The Technical Quality Assurance group was initiated by the EFSUMB Board in 2007 and met firstly in 2008 to discuss and evaluate methods and procedures published for performing technical quality assurance for diagnostic ultrasound devices. It is the aim of this group of experts to advise the EFSUMB Board of effective and efficacious methods for routine use and to make recommendations regarding t...