conclusions this study showed that mmt did not markedly alter the concentration of serum adiponectin in drug abusers. however, in regard to the variations in the serum lipid profiles and anthropometric parameters, the findings indicated that low concentrations of serum adiponectin might play a role in the pathogenesis of obesity and other metabolic abnormalities. thus, more long-term studies wi...

background: anthropometry is a branch of ergonomics that considers the measurement and description of the human body dimensions. accordingly, equipment, environments, and workstations should be designed using user-centered design processes. anthropometric dimensions differ considerably across gender, race, ethnicity and age, taking into account ergonomic and anthropometric principles. the aim o...

PaaS is a Cloud computing service that provides a computing platform to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of infrastructure maintenance. SMEs are reluctant to enter the growing PaaS market due to the possibility of being locked in to a certain platform, mostly provided by the market’s giants. The PaaSport Marketplace aims to avoid the provider lock-in problem by allow...

The ability of human listeners to detect and discriminate spectro-temporal ripples in sound has been shown to be correlated with speech intelligibility performance in several conditions. Thus, if a model would be able to account for the spectro-temporal processing limits in the auditory system, such a framework could be used to analyze the auditory processes contributing to and limiting speech ...

In this report, we develop a front-end nonlinear auditory model based on recent work of Dau, Puschel, and Kohlrausch (DPK) [Dau, Puschel, and Kohlrausch, 1997]. An important aspect of the model is the robust accentuation of temporal change in a signal at the cochlea level that forms the basis of a feature set for automatic speaker recognition. Preliminary speaker recognition experiments with th...

conclusions there is a need to train health staff, and the community, concerning preventive measures, treatment, and reducing harm for substance drug users. results among 402 idus patients, a large amount of them were male, single, and younger than 39 years. regarding psychotic and somatic symptoms caused by methadone therapy, most of the participants had no problem with methadone maintenance t...

pupose: this research aims to investigate how users expand their queries when encountered with irrelevant retrievals and through examine the degree of match between users' expanded subject queries and the list of persian subject headings. furthermore, it compares the patterns of query expansion in two subject areas: 1) agriculture (applied sciences); 2) education and psychology (humanities). me...

background there is a high risk of tuberculosis (tb) infection among injecting drug users (idus). objectives this study aimed to determine the frequency of latent and active tb infection among idus. materials and methods in a cross-sectional study between 2008 and 2009, idus referred to the methadone maintenance treatment (mmt) centers in hamedan-iran, undergone tuberculin skin test (ppd; purif...

MIDCAREERLIBRAKIANS 1,OOKING FOR LAREER MANAGEMENT H E L P on the bookshelf face thousands of choices. This article reviews thirteen popular career self-help books. The reviewed books cover various aspects of career management and provide information on which might be best suited for particular goals, including career change, career tune-up, and personal and professional self-evaluation. The co...

The agency theory upholds shareholder value orientation and suggests the consolidation of monitoring mechanisms in order to correct inappropriate behaviors of managers and consequently, to improve corporate performance (Cuervo-Cazurra & Dau, 2009; Schulze, Lubatkin, Dino, & Buchholtz, 2001; Sundaram & Inkpen, 2004). Contrary to the theoretical prescription, however, shareholder-oriented mechani...