conclusions many contributing factors of drug abuse obtained in this study can influence on tendency towards drug use for new students. it is evident that the period of residency in dormitories is one of the most critical periods in students' life. thus, the concerned authorities take necessary measures to overcome the students’ mental and social problems. results different percentages of parti...

The main objective of the present study was to estimate genetic and phenotypic trends for body weight traits in Guilan province sheep. Traits included were birth weight (BW, n=14,549), 3-month weight (3MW, n=13,109) and 6-month weight (6MW, n=10,141). Data and pedigree information used in this study were collected during 1994 to 2011 by the Agricultural Organization of Guilan province in Iran. ...

background: cancer is the third most common cause of death in iran, the leukemia cancer is one of the most important causes of cancer mortality. regarding cancer mortality, data would be important to monitor the program screening effects, earlier diagnosis, demographic data and other prognostic factors. the aim of this study was mortality rates evaluating, then leukemia cancer trends among the ...

Thecrisis in Ukraine has become a tragedy, as is evidenced by the thousands ofpeople who have been killed, and hundreds of thousands of refugees. It willalter the future of Ukraine, Europe, Eurasia and possibly the world. The crisisbegan in the fall of 2013 as a public response to the authorities’ ill-advisedpolicy and the greed of the elite. However, clumsy assistance provided byconcerned «par...

Teaching cases in medical education are often exhibited through various professional angles, but for patientcentered teaching cases, the division of labor among different specialties is even more important. However, general medical education platforms cannot provide such mechanisms for physicians. Thus, this study adopted a clinical medical education platform “HINTS” to establish a patient-cent...

In 2008, Nicholas Carr published a provocative article titled “Is Google making us stupid?” in which he ponders the effect of the internet and electronic sources generally on the brain. This paper discusses one source specifically, e-books, and explores whether libraries are acting wisely by moving from print to electronic book collections. The topic is considered from the vantage point of the ...

During the last two decades, concentration of measure has been a subject of various exciting developments in convex geometry, functional analysis, statistical physics, high-dimensional statistics, probability theory, information theory, communications and coding theory, computer science, and learning theory. One common theme which emerges in these fields is probabilistic stability: complicated,...

BACKGROUND UK guidelines recommend routine HIV testing in healthcare settings if the local diagnosed HIV prevalence >2/1000 persons. This prospective study assessed the feasibility and acceptability, to patients and staff, of routinely offering HIV tests in four settings: Emergency Department, Acute Care Unit, Dermatology Outpatients and Primary Care. Modelling suggested the estimated prevalenc...

Introduction: Most of previous studies on dyslipidemia among pilots were cross-sectional surveys which cannot explore the temporal trend of dyslipidemia, and these studies were normally conducted at least five years ago. In addition, studies focusing on pilots in Southwest China are scarce. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of and trends in dyslipidemia among pilots f...

temperature and precipitation are among important atmospheric parameters for watershed planning. assessment of temperature and precipitation trends is very important for future watershed planning. in this paper, trends of atmospheric parameters such as seasonal and annual temperature and precipitation were examined for the synoptic stations of bandar anzali, rasht, ramsar, babolsar and gorgan. ...