User interface (UI) composition and information presentation can impact human trust behavior. Trust is a complex concept studied by disciplines like psychology, sociology, economics, and computer science. Definitions of trust vary depending on the context, but are typically based on the core concept of “reliance on another person or entity”. Trust is a critical concept since the presence or abs...

BACKGROUND Previous research has shown that the severity of symptoms of urinary incontinence impacts on quality of life and wellbeing. The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between female urinary incontinence and mental wellbeing. This involved analyses comparing those with UI and those without to determine whether any differences in wellbeing were modified by demographic f...

the economic burden of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (hiv/aids) is far greater than its direct medical costs. this study estimated annual indirect costs of the hiv/aids epidemic in islamic republic of iran in 2006-2007 from societal perspective. a patient cost diary in sets of six booklets covering a total of 6 months (from october 2006 and fallowed until march...

BackgroundThere are increasing concerns about the appropriateness of generic preference-based measures to capture health benefits in area mental health.ObjectivesThe aim this study is estimate preference weights for a new measure, Recovering Quality Life (ReQoL-10), better healthcare.MethodsPsychometric analyses larger sample service users (n = 4266) using confirmatory factor and item response ...

We investigate the relation between budget balance and communication for the multicast cost-sharing problem in the context of distributed algorithmic mechanism design. We use the formal model introduced by Feigenbaum, Papadimitriou, and Shenker [3]: Our network is a rooted undirected tree T = (V,E) with n nodes. The root r of T models the service provider. The set P of leaves of T represents th...

This paper shows that the optimal policy to deal with unemployment features important roles for monitoring of search and job assistance, combined also incorporating more generous insurance (UI). These results are significantly different from previous literature, which has overwhelmingly focused on UI its own. I incorporate two empirically relevant phenomena have often been ignored: private cons...

Urinary incontinence (UI) is highly prevalent crossculturally and also a costly chronic condition (1), with high prevalence among postmenopausal women (2). International Continence Society defined UI as any complaint about involuntary urine leakage (3). UI significantly affects patients (4); avoiding its treatment might have physical, psychosocial, and economic consequences (5), and finally dec...

background: dietary risk factors constitute some of the leading risk factors for cardiovascular disease in iran. the current study reports the burden of ischemic heart disease (ihd) attributable to a low omega-3 fatty acids intake in iran using the data of the global burden of disease (gbd) study 2010. methods: we used data on iran for the years 1990, 2005, and 2010 derived from the gbd study c...