Introduction: The integration of behavioral and social sciences(BSS) into the curriculum of medical students in order to equipthem with the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes is anessential issue, emphasized in many researches. Our aim is toinvestigate the barriers to integrate BSS into the general medicinecurriculum as well as the recommended strategies to overcomesuch barriers through ...

Nowadays, the changes in the dominant economic models, the emergence of knowledge-based economy and the lack of research budgets have caused the academic and research centers to pay attention to the commercialization of research findings. Although, there exist some studies pertaining to this topic, most of them have dealt with natural sciences rather than humanities and soft technology. To brid...

abstractgene therapy is a therapeutic approach to deliver genetic material into cells to alter their function in entire organism. one promising form of gene delivery system (dds) is liposomes. the success of liposome-mediated gene delivery is a multifactorial issue and well-designed liposomal systems might lead to optimized gene transfection particularly in vivo. liposomal gene delivery systems...

BACKGROUND Parents are integral to the implementation of obesity prevention and management recommendations for children. Exploration of barriers to and facilitators of parental decisions to adopt obesity prevention recommendations will inform future efforts to reduce childhood obesity. METHODS We conducted 4 focus groups (2 English, 2 Spanish) among a total of 19 parents of overweight (BMI >o...

In the context of the scope, time, cost, and quality constraints, failure is not uncommon in project management. While small projects have 70% chances of success, large projects virtually have no chance of meeting the quadruple constraints. While there is no dearth of research on project risk management, the manifestation of barriers to project risk management is a less dwelt topic. The success...

OBJECTIVES To explore children's perceptions of the factors influencing their engagement in physical activity during the "critical" lunchtime period, using a social-ecological framework. DESIGN This study was an in-depth descriptive qualitative design. METHODS Fifty-four South Australian children aged 10-13 years participated in same-gender focus groups. Transcripts, field notes and activit...

background: although diabetes mellitus is of high concern in iran, and the level of control is unacceptable, few qualitative studies have been carried out to reflect the experiences of patients on the barriers and motivators to self-care. this study aimed to explore a culturally based experience of iranian diabetic patients regarding the personal and environmental barriers to and facilitat­ing ...

INTRODUCTION Hypertension is emerging in rural populations of India. Barriers to diagnosis and treatment of hypertension may differ regionally according to economic development. Our main objectives are to estimate the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in 3 diverse regions of rural India; identify barriers to diagnosis and treatment in each setting and evaluate the fea...