Strategic planning for information systems remains as one of the top concerns and continues to be a critical issue for many chief information officers and their organisations. Also, a comprehensive review of the recent information systems planning literature reveals that selecting a proper methodology used in developing an information systems plan is one of the success factors related to the su...

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1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kharazmi (Tarbiat moallem) University, Tehran, Iran. 2 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kharazmi (Tarbiat moallem) University, Tehran, Iran. 3 Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran. 4 Faculty of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran. 5 Cellular and Mo...

Gastric cancer (GC) is the fourth most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the world. A 2005 analysis of the global incidence and cancer-related mortality revealed that 934,000 new cases of GC were diagnosed and approximately 700,000 patients died from this disease in 2002 (Parkin et al., 2005). Approximately 60% of all cases occur in developing countries with ...

Recently, arithmetic coding has attracted the attention of many scholars because of its high compression capability. Accordingly, in this paper, a method that adds secrecy to this well-known source code is proposed. Finite state arithmetic code is used as source code to add security. Its finite state machine characteristic is exploited to insert some random jumps during source coding process. I...

in the name of God, most gracious, most merciful Physiology and Pharmacology Indexing: Index Copernicus (IC), Scientific Information Database (SID) Physiology and Pharmacology is the official publication of the Iranian Society of Physiology and Pharmacology. The journal publishes full-length original articles in physiology, pharmacology and related subjects. Editorial office: ...