There has been a growing interest in how the built environment affects health and well-being. Housing characteristics are associated with human health while environmental chemicals could have mediated the effects. However, it is unclear if and how residence duration might have a role in health and well-being. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the associations among resi...

BACKGROUND Functional status is the ability to perform daily activities. Little is known about quality of life and health status of gynaecological cancer patients. The present study therefore aimed to evaluate the functional status of women receiving treatment for gynecological oncological disease while not hospitalised. MATERIALS AND METHODS This descriptive study covered 42 patients monitor...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Emergency contraception (EC) is an underutilized method of preventing unplanned pregnancy. This study assessed family physicians' and nurse providers' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about EC. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was distributed to faculty, residents, and clinic nurses in a Midwestern department of family medicine. Data were analyzed using Statistical ...

Square is a multivariate quadratic encryption scheme proposed in 2009. It is a specialization of Hidden Field Equations by using only odd characteristic elds and also X as its central map. In addition, it uses embedding to reduce the number of variables in the public key. However, the system was broken at Asiacrypt 2009 using a di erential attack. At PQCrypto 2010 Clough and Ding proposed two n...

Since density is considered as one of the most important numerical indices to explain quantitative values of a plant community by affecting on many aspects and activity of ecosystem, on the other hand, awareness about plants distribution pattern in environment is an essential preparation for measurement and study of vegetative cover, therefore, in this research determination of density and dist...

Since density is considered as one of the most important numerical indices to explain quantitative values of a plant community by affecting on many aspects and activity of ecosystem, on the other hand, awareness about plants distribution pattern in environment is an essential preparation for measurement and study of vegetative cover, therefore, in this research determination of density and dist...

with x an n-dimensional vector, A a constant square matrix of order n, and Q a square matrix of order n, quasiperiodic in time t. We say that a change of variables x = P(t)y is a Lyapunov-Perron (LP) transformation if P(t) is nonsingular and P(t), P−1(t), and Ṗ (t) are bounded for all t ∈R. Moreover, if P , P−1, and Ṗ are quasiperiodic in time t, we refer to x = P(t)y as a quasiperiodic LP tran...