BACKGROUND Social media platforms have revolutionized the way human beings communicate, yet there is little evidence describing how the plastic surgery community has adopted social media. In this article, the authors evaluate current trends in social media use by practicing plastic surgeons. METHODS An anonymous survey on the use of social media was distributed to members of the American Soci...

Investigating career motivations and intentions of dental students provides a better understanding of their role in society and contributes to the debate on dental education and practices. This study describes the profile, career choice motivations, and career intentions of Brazilian dental students and evaluates factors related to these choices. A cross-sectional study was carried out among de...

OBJECTIVE Intravaginal practices-including behaviors such as intravaginal cleansing and insertion of products-have been linked to a number of adverse reproductive health outcomes, including increased risk for bacterial vaginosis, sexually transmitted infections, and HIV. Currently, little is known about the motivations for intravaginal practices among women in the United States. The objective o...

Audiologists is an individual that has close connection with deaf and hearing impairment students. This research done to study the perception of special education teachers on involvement audiologists in school. In this research, quantitative data which questionnaire used as instrument. The obtained were analyzed using Microsoft Excel XLstat. total 165 are included through snow-balling sampling....

From November 1, 1982 through December 31, 1985, there were 19 centers and 382 patients that evaluated the effect of methylprednisolone sodium succinate (MPSS) on the septic syndrome. Seventeen of these centers enrolled 304 patients in a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to determine if early treatment with MPSS would decrease the incidence of severity of the adult...

abstract:â green spaces, especially urban gardens have been a subject of study in many countries for a long time, but the subject has been mostly overlooked in iran. therefore, this study tries to analyze the changes in land use and how we can protect green spaces (gardens) in jahrom in line with sustainable development in 1996-2006. the data in this study were collected through local investiga...

This study was conducted to determine the effect of digital literacy services on educators' perception regarding leadership school principals and influence culture perceptions principal leadership. Researchers chose a quantitative method with path analysis technique, total population 152 teachers up 110 respondents. Data were collected through questionnaires distributed each respondent analyzed...

This study investigates the adoption of mobile services across four different service categories. The adoption model underlying the study includes analysis of the motivational, attitudinal, social and resource-related influences on adopters' intention to use mobile services. Overall, the model explains 62-75 percent of the variance in " intention to use ". Two important findings stand out as ve...

results patients reported that their use of methamphetamine was motivated by methadone’s side effects and encouraged by family and friends who promoted methamphetamine use to assuage the side effects of methadone in the early stages of treatment before the appearance of methadone maintenance therapy’s effects on their life. patients and methods to gain a better understanding of patients’ motiva...