Blood glucose monitoring systems (BGMS) are essential for the management of diabetic patients. Although International Organization Standardization (ISO) 15197:2015 criteria require rigorous BGMS devices before commercialization, manufacturing quality standards may decline after FDA or EU approval. This work aimed to demonstrate accuracy and precision two currently available on market. A laborat...

While topological derivatives have proven useful in applications of topology optimization and inverse problems, their mathematically rigorous derivation remains an ongoing research topic, particular the context nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE) constraints. We present a systematic yet formal approach for numerical computation large class PDE-constrained problems with respect to arbi...

BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have become increasingly popular, and the methodology to develop guidelines has evolved enormously. However, little attention has been given to the updating process, in contrast to the appraisal of the available literature. We conducted an international survey to identify current practices in CPG updating and explored the need to standardize and im...

Demotivation is a relatively new topic in the field of second or foreign language acquisition which is in need of more rigorous research. In this regard, the present study was an attempt to investigate demotivating factors in learning English as a foreign language in an Iranian context. To this end, 382 Persian learners of English were selected through stratified clustering sampling procedure t...