BACKGROUND Given the rapid changes in the communication landscape brought about by participative Internet use and social media, it is important to develop a better understanding of these technologies and their impact on health communication. The first step in this effort is to identify the characteristics of current social media users. Up-to-date reporting of current social media use will help ...

BACKGROUND Only 31% of Americans with hypertension have their blood pressure (BP) under effective control. We describe a study that tests 3 different interventions in a randomized controlled trial using home BP telemedicine monitoring. METHODS A sample of hypertensive patients with poor BP control at baseline (N = 600) are randomized to 1 of 4 arms: (1) control group--a group of hypertensive ...

Introduction Demonstrating the value of libraries in an academic setting has long been a topic of research and comment among librarians. Libraries are in a sustained state of proving their contributions to the academic missions of universities which do not necessarily recognize the broader value of libraries. This trend will most likely continue because of budget decreases and changing perspect...

In this paper trends of precipitation and stream flow are analyzed in the Atrak River basin in the North Khorasan province. Normal score linear regression, Mann-Kendall, and Seasonal Kendall trend tests were adopted. Three precipitation variables and two stream flow variables including total precipitation, maximum daily precipitation, and number of rainy days, mean discharge and peak discharge ...

The objective of the present study was to estimate genetic trends for lactation milk yield, persistency of milk yield, somatic cell count and interval between first and second calving in Holstein dairy cows of Iran. The dataset consisted of 210,625 test day and 25,883 first parity cows with milk yield recorded from July 2002 to September 2007 comprising 97 herds in Iran. Breeding values of anim...

objective of this study is to determine whether there are significant changes in maximum temperature trends between the current (1981-2010) and future (2011-2099) periods. to this end, statistical downscaling is used to project future changes in the maximum temperatures according to a2 and b2 scenarios of hadcm3 in the 7 selected stations of iran. the possibilities of an accelerating trend are ...

There are many trends in making an ecological city all around the word, one of important cases in this approach is safe and health water. According by definitions, safe and potable water is water needed for conducting the activities of man. Potable water is the most important renewable sources and this resource plays important role for survival of most living organisms as well as man based on s...

To distinguish between human user and computer program to enhance security, a popular test called CAPTCHA is used on Web. CAPTCHA has an important role in preventing Denial Of Service (DOS) attacks in computer networks. There are many different types of CAPTCHA in different languages. Due to the expansion of Persian-language and documents on internet, creating a suitable Persian CAPTCHA seems t...

The known ore deposits and mineralization trends are important key exploration criteria in mineral exploration within a specific region. Fry analysis has conventionally been considered as a suitable method to determine the mineralization trends related to linear structures. Based upon literature sources, to date, no investigation has been carried out that includes the Sensitivity Analysis of Fe...