BACKGROUND According to the last existing documents, the prevalence rate of mental disorders is about 20% which is considered to be 14% of all country's burden of disease. In the fifth economical, social, and cultural development plan of the country in accordance with the 20 year vision, "healthy human being" and "comprehensive health" approaches and also improving of mental health indicators a...

We are currently investigating the creation of an didactic environment for the teaching of a programming language to approximately 1500 students each year. At this effect we are constructing a robust and perspicious system : VISION & CAN & PHENARETE (GREUSSAY 1977, GOOSSENS 1977, WERTZ 1976), a system designed to help the individual apprentice in the process of deve­ loping, writing and debuggi...

The thesis presents different methods that can be used in practice in order to increase the detection rate of an antivirus product. The two most common types of malware are analyzed: executable files and document files. A study over the privacy threats brought by applications for mobile devices, as well as the necessary steps to create a framework capable of analyzing and detecting them are als...

This paper proposes a formal representation of logic controllers programs that is aiming at improving scalability of model-checking techniques, when verifying controllers extrinsic properties. This representation includes only the states which are meaningful for properties proof and minimizes the number of variables that feature each state. Comparison with previously proposed representations, o...

Background This cross-sectional study was conducted to compare the average costs of breast cancer screening and treatment among women with the age of 25 and over in Shiraz-Iran.   Methods Three majors hospitals affiliated with Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS) were selected for data collection. Financial documents and interviews with the hospitals’ financial officers were used for da...