Background People Living with HIV (PLHIV) are highly stigmatized and consequently hard-to-access by researchers and importantly, public health outreach in Iran, possibly due to the existing socio-cultural situation in this country. The present study aimed to evaluate the sexual and reproductive health needs of PLHIV in Tehran, the capital of Iran.   Methods As a mixed-method descriptive study, ...

Governments worldwide are taking actions to address the construction sector's sustainability concerns, including high carbon emissions, health and safety risks, low productivity, increasing costs. Applying Industry 4.0 technologies (also referred as Construction 4.0) could some of these concerns. However, current understanding about this is quite limited, with previous work being largely...

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2012.06.010 ⇑ Tel.: +55 11 3799 7755; fax: +55 11 3262 3876. E-mail addresses: [email protected], iongeo The literature on multimethodology indicates that cognitive mapping is relevant to enriching the preliminary, information-gathering phase of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), and especially the rich pictur...

The aim of the experiment was to determine effectiveness combined use trimetazidine and a purified micronized flavonoid fraction, as well their combinations with methyldopa, in comparison monotherapy same drugs correction morphofunctional disorders arising conditions experimental preeclampsia. An integrated/multimethodology approach is most effective way treatment for Therefore, an urgent task ...

The engineering of complex systems is becoming an increasingly important field of study. As a consequence, teaching and research programs are appearing at universities throughout the world. The appearance of these offerings emphasises the need for a coherent and consistent framework that defines the discipline in terms of its Area of concern (A), Methodology (M), and Framework of ideas (F). Thi...

Up until the early 1970s there was a fair consensus among operations researchers and management scientists of what MS/OR meant, i.e., the application of quantitative methods to model decision making situations in view of achieving some well-defined objective within a systems framework. Optimization of some performance measure was usually an integral part of the methodology. This all changed in ...