the aim with the present research is to study the role of managerial factors on teaching quality of the members of faculty to the agriculture and natural resources department, university of tehran. this research was conducted based on a descriptive (non-experimental)-survey method. the statistical population includes 256 members of faculty teaching at agriculture and natural resources departmen...

OBJECTIVE To carry out initial psychometric testing on the Simple Lifestyle Indicator Questionnaire (SLIQ). DESIGN Self-administered questionnaire to obtain data for test-retest reliability, for Cronbach alpha testing on completed questionnaires, and for blinded external validity testing. SETTING Kingston, Ont, and surrounding area. PARTICIPANTS One hundred thirty-six family practice pati...

BACKGROUND This study was planned in an attempt to develop a scale for the quality of life in pediatric oncology patients aged 7-12, with child and parents forms. MATERIALS AND METHODS In collecting the study data, we used the Child and Parent Information Form, Visual Quality of Life Scale, Scale for Quality of Life Pediatric Oncology Patients Aged 7-12 and the Scale for the Quality of Life i...

Introduction: Plastic surgery and its acceptance have been increasing in recent years. People have different psychological problems. In recent years, studies have emerged on this group of people. However, there is no tool that can assess the acceptance of plastic surgery. Objectives: The aim of this study is to determine the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Iranian version o...

As devices are reduced in size, interfaces start to dominate electrical transport making it essential to be able to describe reliably how they transmit and reflect electrons. Wave function matching (WFM) is a transparent technique for calculating transmission and reflection matrices suitable for any Hamiltonian that can be represented in tight-binding form. A firstprinciples Kohn-Sham Hamiltoni...

OBJECTIVE To establish and validate a new system to define the severity of onychomycosis. The Onychomycosis Severity Index (OSI) score is obtained by multiplying the score for the area of involvement (range, 0-5) by the score for the proximity of disease to the matrix (range, 1-5). Ten points are added for the presence of a longitudinal streak or a patch (dermatophytoma) or for greater than 2 m...