Background and Objectives: Angiography remains as the gold standard for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The aim of this study was to assess the quality of angiography services in Shahid Madani Hospital, Tabriz, Iran.   Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2013 in Shahid Madani Hospital. A sample of 203 CVD patients who had received angiography services was surveye...

Sports all over the world are celebrated and embraced as an indicator of triumph youth human experience. Esports have increasingly come to be associated with industry likened traditional sports. Professional gamers who continuously define new standards in areas gaming, entertainment, esports emerged. This systematic review sought find out extent which these virtual sports affect cardiovascular ...

Background: Chronic kidney disease is considered as one of the most common health problems in the world. High mortality and morbidity in these patients, are due to cardiovascular disease and infections. Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio is recently known as an inflammatory marker. This study aimed to determine the ratio of neutrophil to lymphocyte count in hemodialysis patients in Birjand Special ...

Objective this study aims to contribute to the development of a conceptual framework that will inform maternity care improvements for expectant mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) by exploring the structure, functions, and perceived quality of social support received by women with IDD during pregnancy and childbirth. Design/setting using a grounded theory approach, we...

Discovery of association rules has been found useful in many applications. In previous work, all items in a basket database are treated uniformly. We generalize this to the case where items are given weights to re ect their importance to the user. The weights may correspond to special promotions on some products, or the pro tability of di erent items. We can mine the weighted association rules ...

This paper proposes a strategy for administering a survey that is mindful of sensitive data and individual privacy. The survey seeks to estimate the population proportion of a sensitive variable and does not depend on anonymity, cryptography, or in legal guarantees for its privacy preserving properties. Our technique presents interviewees with a question and t possible answers, and asks partici...

This paper continues the study of the the allocation of memory to processors in a pipeline problem. This problem can be modeled as a variation of bin packing where each item corresponds to a different type and the normalized weight of each item can be greater than 1, which is the size of a bin. Furthermore, in this problem, items may be split arbitrarily, but each bin may contain at most k type...

BACKGROUND Despite the high burden of cardiovascular diseases in Arab countries, little is known about cardiac rehabilitation (CR) delivery. This study assessed availability, and CR program characteristics in the Arab World, compared to Canada. METHODS A questionnaire incorporating items from 4 national / regional published CR program surveys was created for this cross-sectional study. The su...