background: high prevalence and increasing rate of asthmatic patients around the word witnesses the high burden of asthma. we have limited data on asthma burden and economic costs in iran. this study aimed to find direct and indirect economic costs of asthma and their association with some background factors in one of the referral tertiary centers for adult patients with asthma. methods: we sur...

In today's distributed computing environments , users are making increasing demands on the systems, networks, and applications they use. Users are coming to expect performance, fault tolerance, connguration, security, and accounting services comparable to those on traditional centralized systems. Meeting these expectations implies the need for management. While some successes have been realized...