Background & Aims of the Study: It is believed that immature defensive mechanisms and impulsiveness make people vulnerable to smoker and drugs, and these individuals experience more negative emotions and have less options for reducing their psychological disorders. The study sought to determine the role of difficulty in emotional self-regulation, impulsiveness, and defensive me...

Background & Aim: Kazeroon, with an area of about 4060 km², is situated at 110 km in the west of Shiraz, Fars province, Iran. This area is important for plant biodiversity, due to the presence of some important habitats such as international Lake of Parishan in the southeast, woodlands of Quercus persica in the east and branches of Shahpoor river in the west of the region. Therefore, f...

Introduction: Since human health is the issue of Medical Research, correct prediction of results is of a high importance. This study applies probabilistic neural network (PNN) for predicting coronary artery disease (CAD), because the PNN is stronger than other methods. Methods: In this descriptive-analytic study, The PNN method was implemented on 150 patients admitted to the Mazandaran Heart...

Alvarez, Diana, Manuel Ruiz-García, Mohamed Noor, and Victor M. Salceda. Unidad de Genética (Genética de Poblaciones-Biología Evolutiva). Laboratorio de Bioquímica, Biología y Genética Molecular de Poblaciones. Departamento de Biología. Facultad de Ciencias. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Cra 7a No 43-82. Bogotá DC., Colombia; Department of Biological Sciences. 138 Life Sciences Building. Lo...

Background: Self-medication can lead to the latency of the real severity of disease, delay in diagnosis, a complication of treatment, threatening side effects, and unexpected intoxication. The present research aimed to explore the prevalence of self-medication and its factors among students affiliated to Bandar Abbas universities in 2016. Materials and Methods: This Descriptive Analytic study w...

introduction: smoking is the first preventable cause of death in the world. this problem is one of the most important difficulties of public health which has involved adolescents and young people. since smoking incidence pattern has changed and needed to be recognized ,getting involved the community and also health officials in this field is so essential and at the same time few researches have...

This study investigated the effect of oral dialogue journals on communicative competence of Iranian EFL learners. Participants of this study were 80 students of two Payam-e-Noor Universities who were proved to be homogenous in the communicative competence based on TSE (Test of Spoken English) interview. The participants of one of these universities were considered as the experimental group. The...

Let K be a nonempty compact convex subset of a uniformly convex Banach space, and   K K T   : a multivalued nonexpansive mapping. We prove that the sequences of Noor iterate converge to a fixed point of T. This generalizes former results proved by Banach convergence of Noor iterates for a multi-valued mapping with a fixed point. We also introduce both of the iterative processes in a new sen...

Effect of external factors on intention–behaviour gap Sedigheh Moghavvemi, Noor Akma Mohd Salleh, Ainin Sulaiman & Masoud Abessi To cite this article: Sedigheh Moghavvemi, Noor Akma Mohd Salleh, Ainin Sulaiman & Masoud Abessi (2015) Effect of external factors on intention–behaviour gap, Behaviour & Information Technology, 34:12, 1171-1185, DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2015.1055801 To link to this arti...

BACKGROUND Trachoma is a leading cause of preventable blindness. Reports from eye surgery camps and anecdotal data indicated that blinding trachoma is a serious cause of visual impairment in Mankien payam (district) of southern Sudan. We conducted this study to estimate the prevalence of trachoma, estimate targets for interventions, and establish a baseline for monitoring and evaluation. METH...