most residences of the northern parts of golestan province, have historically used rooftop rainwater for drinking. its adoption rate and continued use have declined in recent years for various reasons. based on a survey of 380 cases, this research attempted to identify what factors are contributing to the adoption of these systems. the results demonstrated that the adoption changes in response ...

Privatization which refers to the transition of ownership and management of state-owned enterprises to the private sector, is one of the main drivers of economic prosperity. In this paper, the performance of the state, private, and privatized banks have been compared through examining the effects of privatization in the banking system on its performance. The data from 11 banks during the 13-yea...

We consider asymptotic properties of the maximum likelihood and related estimators in a clustered logistic joinpoint model with an unknown joinpoint. Sufficient conditions are given for the consistency of confidence bounds produced by the parametric bootstrap; one of the conditions required is that the true location of the joinpoint is not at one of the observation times. A simulation study is ...

background: smoking is one of the preventable causes of diseases as well as early deaths all around the world. in addition, conducting educational interventions plays a major role in preventing adolescents from smoking. therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the effect of educational intervention based on the theory of planned behavior on preventing shirazi students from smoking. met...

Background: Despite many studies showing a correlation between fast food consumption and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) known as the silent death, few studies have investigated the effects of different types of fast foods on this disease. This research aimed to evaluate the effect of consuming different types of fast foods on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Materials and Methods:...

The concept of consideration sets makes brand choice a two-step process. House-holds first construct a consideration set which not necessarily includes all available brands and conditional on this set they make a final choice. In this paper we put forward a parametric econometric model for this two-step process, where we take into account that consideration sets usually are not observed. It tur...