Body Mass Index, the Most Widely Used But Also Widely Criticized Index

Hydroxy Acids, the Most Widely Used Anti-aging Agents

Aging process begins from birth and continues during the lifetime. Skin aging is the result of some reactions in dermis, epidermis, pigment cells, hair follicles, sebaceous glands, blood vessels and secondary organs in the skin layers. In this case, the thickness of epidermis, which is the outmost layer of the skin, decreases, while the stratum corneum layer that is the outmost layer of the epi...

hydroxy acids, the most widely used anti-aging agents

Widely Used but also Highly Valued? Acceptance Factors and Their Perceptions in Water-Scrum-Fall Projects

Agile methodologies like Scrum propose drastic changes with respect to team hierarchies, organizational structures, planning or controlling processes. To mitigate the level of change and retain some established processes, many organizations prefer to introduce hybrid agile-traditional methodologies that combine agile with traditional development practices. Despite their importance in practice, ...

A Comparative Study of the Most Widely Used Themes of Painting in Ilkhanid and Timurid Illustrated Manuscripts

This research compares the common illustrated themes in manuscripts from Ilkhanid and Timurid periods. In general, the themes in Iranian painting are divided into seven categories of history, religion, animals, epic, lyrical love, realism, decoration, in which the themes of history, religion, animals and epic have more commons in both periods. In this research, only these four themes and the re...

Decision aids help patients but still are not widely used.

P atient decision aids (PtDAs)—educa-tional materials that explain patients' options—help communicate probabilities and boost confidence in medical decisions. But few physicians use them. " The barriers are a mile high, " said Glyn Elwyn, Ph.D., professor at the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science in Hanover, N.H. Elwyn co-wrote a study that investigated efforts to implement PtDAs...