introduction: there are significant gender differences in the epidemiology and presentation of cardiovascular diseases (cvds), physiological aspects of cvds, response to diagnostic tests or interventions, and prevalence or incidence of the associated risk factors. considering the independent influence of gender on early dire consequences of such diseases, this study was conducted to investigate...

OBJECTIVE The present paper investigates on lay people's beliefs regarding cancer risk factors' and their correlates, especially people's socioeconomic status (SES), as they may heavily contribute to social health inequalities. METHODS We used data from the 2010 Baromètre Cancer, a national representative telephone survey conducted in France (N = 3359, age 15-75, participation rate 52%). RE...

abstract: this paper investigates the factors accelerating smes' adoption of e-commerce. initially we proposed a model that included three categories of factors including external environmental factors, internal environmental factors and technology specifications. in addition, we proposed ecommerce adoption stages in two levels of early adoption and institutionalization. based on surveying...

The present study is focused on place attachment from environmental designers’ point of view. The study’s aim is to offer a helpful and practical model of place attachment for its audience; this is done using the Spatial-Social Place attachment(SSPa)model. Based on this model’s hypothesis, place attachment has two aspects: spatial and social; a purposeful and methodical (systematic) study...

some of arid regions problems of iran are saline and sodic soils. in improvement and reclamation of iranian arid rangelands, some foreign species of atriplex had been imported and adapted for many years ago. the most adapted species was atriplex canescens. at the present research, some environmental factors, vegetative characteristics (na, ca, mg and k), soil properties (moisture, ec, ph, solut...

organizational cynicism is one of the issues that attract the interest of behavioral scholars and scientists because of its impact on the organizational performance. the goal of this research is measuring the level of organizational cynicism in employees of qom universities. in terms of goal, this is an applied research while it is a descriptive survey-type in terms of data collection method. t...