BACKGROUND Iran is a developing and Islamic country where the consumption of alcoholic beverages is banned. However, psychiatric disorders and alcohol use disorders are often co-occurring. We used the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) to estimate the prevalence of alcohol use and examined the psychometric properties of the test among psychiatric outpatients in Teheran, Iran. M...

The Literature review indicates that the high blood pressure has a different prevalence in various population of Iran and in the age group of 35 and above the rate varies from 7% in Qushguai tribe to 30% in Teheran and Anzali. The purpose of this study is to know whether the essential hypertension begins at the early age of life; and also to standardizing the normal value of blood pressure in c...

Pembukaan hubungan diplomatik dan perwakilan tetap dilakukan atas dasar kesepakatan bersama, biasanya dibuat dalam bentuk komunike bersama perjanjian persahabatan. Setelah itu maka kedua negara akan mengeluarkan Joint Communique yang dikeluarkan pada waktu tempat sudah disetujui bersama. ada untuk membuka pembukaan bisa dilaksanakan secara timbal balik (on reciprocal basis). Prinsip prinsip res...

GNSS signals are easily blocked or degraded because of the dense presence high-rise buildings in urban areas, and positioning errors arising from reflected amount to as much hundreds meters. Various conventional techniques have been utilized resolve this problem, but applying them environments has difficult owing complexity their unpredictable nonlinear variation signal receiving environments. ...

Moral Competence, defined as the ability to solve conflicts on basis of shared moral principles through cooperation rather than violence, deceit and power, has received little attention among different psychological approaches; despite its importance in predicting many our social interactions. The purpose this study was investigate effect competence online conformity behavior. 217 students from...

BACKGROUND Hypertension (HTN) is a serious health problem that threatens one fourth of the adult population in some countries. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to assess the prevalence and outcome of undiagnosed hypertensive patients admitted to the emergency department. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted from March 2009 to March 2010 at Imam Hossein Medical and Educa...

In the modern IT industrial cluster environment, IT cluster companies increasingly depend on external sources of information to promote innovation and improve their performance. In doing so, IT cluster companies should first enhance their absorptive capacities to increase their abilities to evaluate, assimilate, and apply external knowledge to their industries. Absorptive capacity is what enabl...

BACKGROUND Simulation can be used for educating, evaluating and assessing psychometric properties of an instrument. The aim of this study was to contextualize and assess the validity and reliability of the Interprofessional Collaborative Assessment tool (ICAR) in an Iranian context using simulation. METHODS In this descriptive study, contextualization of the ICAR was assessed through several ...

Background: Socioeconomic status has been found to have a significant impact on the health as well as risk behaviors of adolescents across different contexts. This study was conducted to assess the effect of social relations adjusted by social class on physical and psychological well-being of adolescences in Teheran, Iran. Methods: This was a cross- sectional study and carried out on 1,742 adol...