A look at important issues regarding safe orthokeratology

IMPORTANT ISSUES IN MULTIPLE RESPONSE OPTIMIZATION

There have been many productive methods developed so far for optimization of multiple response surface (MRS) problems. This paper tends to review the most seminal approaches in MRS and discuss the strength and weakness of each of the approaches through existing aspects in MRS. A numerical example is included to compare results by different methods. Finally some of the prominent areas for future...

A Look at the Challenges of Boundary-Spanner Academic Leaders

The present study was an exploratory sequential mixed method approach, so the qualitative section of the study was done by descriptive phenomenology method. The participants in the qualitative section included academic administrators with managerial experience who by criterion sampling and saturation in the research findings, 12 were selected for the interview. Research tools in the section wer...

A Different Look at Peer-Reviewing of Articles

Therapeutic Direction and Issues Regarding HBV Infection

With up to 400 million affected people worldwide, chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is still a major health care problem. During the last decade, several novel therapeutic approaches have been developed and evaluated. In most regions of the world, interferon-α (IFN-α), and nucleos(t)ide analogues are currently approved. Despite major improvements, none of the existing therapies is optim...

A look at signification of ‘then’ in the Holy Quran

‘Then’ as one of conjunctions, has many usages in Arabic language. Since one of its usages is in the religious texts and the Holy Quran so that its different usages effect on the style, meaning, and concepts, and also, due to the sensitivity and significance of the Holy Quran, understanding the exact meaning of this conjunction, i.e. ‘then’, and studying its various stat...