PURPOSE The aim of this investigation was to study the factors responsible for drug addiction amongst the inmates of Tabriz and Qom prisons, to further understand the reasons for drug abuse particularly in the young and find improved methods for combating these widespread problems. METHODS A multi-choice questionnaire was provided to inmates to potentially assess the reasons for their drug ad...

Fatemeh Zare Shahneh*, Samira Valiyari , Abbas Azadmehr, Reza Hajiaghaee, Ali Bandehagh, Behzad Baradaran Immunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran Department of Medical Biotechnology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran Department of Immunology, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutics, Department of Medicinal...

Morteza Arab-Zozani, Zahra Vahdatimanesh, Edris Kakemam, Mobin Sokhanvar, Djavad Ghoddosineghad, Edris Hasanpoor. Ph. D. Student of Health Policy, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, School of management and medical informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran ; MSc of Health Economics, Performance Monitoring and Budgeting Center, Hamedan university of Medical...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to explore the confirmatory factor analysis results of the Persian adaptation of Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS), proposed by Hopko, Mahadevan, Bare & Hunt. METHOD The validity and reliability assessments of the scale were performed on 298 college students chosen randomly from Tabriz University in Iran. The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was carrie...

The amplification cycle of many replicators (natural or artificial) involves the usage of a host compartment, inside which the replicator express phenotypic compounds necessary to carry out its genetic replication. The compartment limits the diffusion of the intermediate compounds, thereby also maintaining the genotypephenotype linkage enabling natural selection. In most cases however, genotypi...

Research documents the mental health toll of combat operations on military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, but little research examines civilians who work alongside members of the military. In this research, we argue that a sense of threat is an ‘‘ambient stressor’’ that permeates daily life among civilians who work in these war zones, with mastery likely to both mediate and moderate the men...

We introduce a simple, practical approach with probabilistic information-theoretic security to solve one of quantum key distribution’s major security weaknesses: the requirement of an authenticated classical channel to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. Our scheme uses classical secret sharing techniques and partially trusted intermediaries and provides arbitrarily high confidence in the securi...

EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE ACCORDING TO GUIDELINES IN OSTEOARTHRITIS MANAGEMENT: A QUALITATIVE STUDY Mozhgan Behshid, Vahid Zamanzadeh, Fazlollah Ahmadi, Alireza Irajpoor. PhD student, Research Center of Medical Education, Tabriz Health Services Management Research Centre, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Nursing & Midwifery Faculty, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences; PhD, Professor, Ta...

The paper considers a distributed robust estimation problem over a network with randomly changing topology. The objective is to deal with these changes locally, by switching observer gains at affected nodes only. We propose sufficient conditions which guarantee a suboptimal H∞ level of disagreement of estimates in such observer networks, both in the mean-square sense and with probability 1. Whe...

The growth of populations with continuous deterministic and random jump components is treated. Three special models in which random jumps occur at the time of events of a Poisson process and admit formal explicit solutions are considered: A) Logistic growth with random disasters having exponentially distributed amplitudes; B) Logistic growth with random disasters causing the removal of a unifor...