conclusions there is a need to train health staff, and the community, concerning preventive measures, treatment, and reducing harm for substance drug users. results among 402 idus patients, a large amount of them were male, single, and younger than 39 years. regarding psychotic and somatic symptoms caused by methadone therapy, most of the participants had no problem with methadone maintenance t...

pupose: this research aims to investigate how users expand their queries when encountered with irrelevant retrievals and through examine the degree of match between users' expanded subject queries and the list of persian subject headings. furthermore, it compares the patterns of query expansion in two subject areas: 1) agriculture (applied sciences); 2) education and psychology (humanities). me...

background there is a high risk of tuberculosis (tb) infection among injecting drug users (idus). objectives this study aimed to determine the frequency of latent and active tb infection among idus. materials and methods in a cross-sectional study between 2008 and 2009, idus referred to the methadone maintenance treatment (mmt) centers in hamedan-iran, undergone tuberculin skin test (ppd; purif...

MIDCAREERLIBRAKIANS 1,OOKING FOR LAREER MANAGEMENT H E L P on the bookshelf face thousands of choices. This article reviews thirteen popular career self-help books. The reviewed books cover various aspects of career management and provide information on which might be best suited for particular goals, including career change, career tune-up, and personal and professional self-evaluation. The co...

The agency theory upholds shareholder value orientation and suggests the consolidation of monitoring mechanisms in order to correct inappropriate behaviors of managers and consequently, to improve corporate performance (Cuervo-Cazurra & Dau, 2009; Schulze, Lubatkin, Dino, & Buchholtz, 2001; Sundaram & Inkpen, 2004). Contrary to the theoretical prescription, however, shareholder-oriented mechani...

In this thesis, we develop wavelet surface wavelet representations for complex surfaces, with the goal of demonstrating their potential for 3D scientific and engineering computing applications. Surface wavelets were originally developed for representing geometric objects in a multiresolution format in computer graphics. However, we further extend the construction of surface wavelets and prove t...

Synthetic speech can be modified to improve intelligibility in noise. In order to perform modifications automatically, it would be useful to have an objective measure that could predict the intelligibility of modified synthetic speech for human listeners. We analysed the impact on intelligibility – and on how well objective measures predict it – when we separately modify speaking rate, fundamen...