background: despite the benefits of diabetes patient education, it is imperative to analyze the status of researches in this field and identify research gaps and priorities if our limited health resources are to be used wisely and effectively. this study is a part of iran diabetes research roadmap study to find the knowledge gap in the field of diabetes patient education in iran. methods: all p...

Background. Universities are perceived as the hub for sports talent identification and development. This perception puts much pressure on student-athletes who are expected to excel in sport despite their academic commitments. Based on this expectation, students who participate in sports could be regarded as athlete-student, rather than student-athlete. Objectives. The study was carried out to ...

On the global scale, extensive pastoral production accounts for 10% of total meat production (or a billion head of camels, cattle and small animals on all continents)1 and supports some 200 million pastoral households. Yet, despite the considerable benefits conferred by pastoral production systems, they are often denigrated as being archaic. [R1] On the African continent, despite these subjecti...

arbitration is a private justice for the settlement of disputes in the international trade. by reason of number of benefits, international traders prefer the arbitration in relation to the justice tosettle their disputes. confidentiality is one of those benefits. here, there are some questions: is there any source in international commercial judgment that indicates the confidentiality of judgme...

As discharge restrictions become stricter and sludge dlisposal costs rise, traditional technologies for the removal of metals from plating shop wastewater such as lime and ferric chloride become increasingly less attractive. One technology that is of use of dithiocarbamates to complex a highly insoluble, dense sludge, effluent water and greatly reduced sludge volumes. Despite the benefits avail...

the boom in the technology has resulted in emergence of new concepts and challenges. Big data is one of those spoke about terms today. Big data is becoming a synonym for competitive advantages in business rivalries. Despite enormous benefits, big data accompanies some serious challenges and when it comes to analyzing of big data, it requires some serious thought. This study explores Big Data te...

Despite concerted efforts by Carnap and others, including recently by Jon Williamson in an objective Bayesian setting, no satisfying philosophical justification for learning from experience has been produced thus far. I contend that finitude constraints imposed by our world on even otherwise-ideal agents suggest a new epistemic principle, Illusory Chance, which provides justification for learni...

The goal of empowering underserved populations to use technology has resulted in hardware solutions worldwide that have been deployed to varying levels of success. Despite the differences in the devices and their technology, their employment, and the benefits motivating the exploration of such solutions, there have been some common threads connecting such projects. The Computador Popular was a ...

IT/IS hiring managers have indicated that they may use certification to differentiate between job candidates with similar levels of education and experience. Some studies and salary surveys have indicated that certified employees make more money and bonuses than noncertified workers. Despite the obvious benefits, some IS students choose not to pursue certification. This study will use the Theor...