conclusions despite implementation of community-level harm reduction strategies in iran, infectious complications due to illicit drug use are frequent and often require care at the hospital. introducing harm reductions services at an inpatient level may improve the quality of care provided and help reduce the burden of accrue from drug use. background infectious complications among injection dr...

background: hepatitis c (hcv) is increasing worldwide including iran. hcv is more prevalent among intravenous drug abusers (idu), especially if imprisoned, mostly due to needle sharing. we determined the rate of hcv seropositivity among idu prisoners and compared it with those of non prisoners. materials and methods: a cross-sectional survey was done on consenting idu inhabiting two prisons and...

the main objective followed in this research was to study some of the factors influencing water users' participation in management of the irrigation and drainage networks on the lands under jiroft dam. the kind of research method of the study was a descriptive- correlational one. the statistical population of the study consisted of all the water users of irrigation and drainage networks ac...

conclusions the findings of the study showed that, compared with the opiate users, methamphetamine users are younger, more likely to be single, and less likely to have received treatment. we recommend that policymakers should not only design preventive programs for improving the level of knowledge about stimulant use, but also prepare treatment plans and facilities for this newly emerged substa...

due to the quick growth of the world wide web, retrieval of useful informationfrom the internet for a particular web user or a group of users becomes verydifficult. recommendation systems using web usage mining help providing anadaptive web environment for the web users. this paper presents a novel approachfor page recommendation using fuzzy association rule mining algorithm. thismethod extract...

Background. There is to our knowledge metabolic changes induced by combined oral contraceptives (COC) use in regularly active females. Objectives. Analyzing blood cortisol and other biochemical variables in active (COC) users and non-users. Methods. A total of 123 active female students (25 COC users and 98 non-users) volunteered to participate in the study.  The COC users declared 2-3 years ...

this study has investigated the effects of ict to increase efficiency and empowerment of rural women using data envelopment analysis (dea) to investigate the mechanism of effectiveness of information technology (ict) on the efficiency and empowerment of rural women in the village of gharn abad, golestan province. in this study, using survey methods, 38 users and 25 non-users of technology (cont...