The first aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of activities, strategies and processes associated with managers’ empowerment based on the National Human Resource Empowerment Model in Iran. The second aim is to propose a provincial model of human resources empowerment for managers and executives. To collect data, a qualitative research approach including semi-structured interviews an...

The significant costs insert on mineral processes due to mill liner wear including the labor costs, price of material and shut down periods. Therefore, the study of this phenomenon is economically important to optimize the mill operating conditions and liner profile design to decrease the wear rate. There is no appropriate and applicable research on impact wear evaluation of mill liners. In the...

Objective The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between phytoestrogen intake with endometriosis risk. MaterialsAndMethods A case-control study was conducted on 78 women with a laparoscopically confirmed diagnosis of endometriosis and on 78 normal pelvis women (as the control group). Common dietary intake was collected by a validated 147-item semi-quantitative FFQ. Calculation ty...

adverse lifestyle changes like rapid change in dietary habits coupled with decreased physical activity and increasing rates of alcohol and tobacco consumption can increase coronary artery disease risk factors and its mortality even higher than the rates predicted. to evaluate the role of adverse lifestyle changes factors in the causation of cad, a hospital based case-control study was conducted...

background: to determine the risk factor for acute diarrhea disease in children. methods: in the survey, 220 cases and 220 controls were involved. cases were children with loose watery feces, pathologically diagnosed as acute diarrhea by the physician, and enrolled from the emergency ward as the incident cases in dr. sheykh hospital, mashhad, northeast of iran. control group too, was enrolled f...

background: a crucial part of a case-control study is the selection of a sample of controls that represent the base-popula­tion from which cases were drawn. controls may be matched to cases by one or more potentially important confounding vari­ables, such as socioeconomic status. in the united kingdom, one method for control selection has been based on the pa­tient list of the general practice ...

introduction: diabetes mellitus (dm) is one of the most common chronic diseases in the world and the most challenging health problems of the twenty first century. this disease is common in yazd and has a high prevalence in the province. due to not available analytic study, the aim of this study was to determine the risk factors of type 2 diabetes among the adult yazd population, iran. materials...

abstractintroduction: the role of breast-feeding in protection against childhood acute leukemia is uncertain. in this study, we tested the hypothesis that breast-feeding decreases the risk of 300 patients we investigated childhood acute leukemia. materials and methods: in a case control study, we inrestigated 300 patients, aged 2±13 years, with acute leukemia, as well as 300 controls, individua...

Semantic dementia is a variant of frontotemporal dementia and is a recently recognized diagnostic condition. There has been some research quantitatively examining care partner stress and burden in frontotemporal dementia. There are, however, few studies exploring the subjective experiences of family members caring for those with frontotemporal dementia. Increased knowledge of such experiences w...