abstract background & aim: evaluation and measurement of mother’s satisfaction from postpartum cares is so important in the quality of health care indexes. the purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the postpartum satisfaction nursing care questionnaire (jpsnq). material & methods: this study was a methodological research. at the first, the english version of questi...

as the conditions in the market and in the world of work and commerce gets more complicated, this requires cor-rection, improvement and also updating marketing attitude among manufacturers and marketers. it is an urgent requirement to choose and determine strategies in order to achieve the objectives. strategy means the comprehensive and main plan in manufacturing unit revealing the way it achi...

in the modern world, organizations are considered as intelligent systems. increased organizational intelligence (oi) helps organizations to effectively analyze their data, store results, and use outcomes for making professional decisions. the purpose of this study was to measure oi in agriculture- jihad organization in guilan. a sample of 201 out of personnel was selected from in agriculture- j...

to compare different qtl mapping methods, a population with genotypic and phenotypic data was simulated. in bayesian approach, all information of markers can be used along with combination of distributions of snp markers. it is assumed that most of the markers (95%) have minor effects and a few numbers of markers (5%) exert major effects. the simulated population included a basic population of ...

conclusions persian version of the self-management scale for patients with epilepsy is valid and reliable to measure the dimensions of self-management in iranian patients and it can be used to measure epileptics’ self-management. further research on the safety of this tool is recommended. results the validity of all items was above 0.63 and their content validity indexes (0.81-1) were appropria...

introduction: in this study the automatic separation of oral and salivary gland activity and spontaneous secretion by means of factor analysis for quantitative salivary gland scintigraphy is introduced. methods: after intravenous administration of 99mtc sodium pertechnetate, dynamic scintigraphy was performed. 20 minutes after tracer application 2 ml of lemon juice was delivered to stimulate t...

background: mobile phone has become extremely popular and widely used all over the world. now a day, consumers around the world can purchase a single product that utility as a mobile phone, camera, camcorder, calculator, game console, text-messaging device, mp3 player, alarm clock, web browser and email device. the purpose of the present study was to explore self-reported use of various feature...

BACKGROUND Acidosis during early reperfusion is reported to be beneficial for myocardial stunning. We tested in 31 dogs the hypothesis that staged reperfusion is beneficial to myocardial stunning. METHODS AND RESULTS Contractile dysfunction was observed 3 hours after the onset of reperfusion after 15 minutes of occlusion of the coronary artery. In the staged reperfusion, pH of the coronary ve...

Background: There are no randomized trials described outcomes of multivessel percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) (in primary and staged revascularization) with second generation drug eluting stents (DES) in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). We are presenting preliminary results of randomized trial (NCT01781715). Methods: Six-month outcomes of 89 consecutive patient...