Background Breast milk is the best and most effective food for infants and their survival and health. Promotion of breastfeeding self-efficacy is a goal of breastfeeding education. The purpose of this research was to teach breastfeeding through role-playing and explore its effects on breastfeeding self-efficacy among pregnant women referring to healthcare centers of Isfahan, Iran. Materials and...

As the complexity of embedded software systems grows, performance profiling becomes more and more important. Performance profiling of embedded software systems requires data collection with low overhead and high information completeness. Performance profiling consists of monitoring a software system during execution and then analyzing the obtained data. There are two ways to collect profiling d...

Introduction: Optimization of waste collection systems can reduce waste management costs. In this study, optimization of the waste collection system of district 3 of Yazd municipality of Iran has been investigated using underground containers. Materials and Methods: In this research, after collecting information and performing field inspections, the statistical and raster information obtained ...

OBJECTIVES The present study evaluates the reliability of the Radio Memory® software (Radio Memory; Belo Horizonte, Brasil.) on classifying lower third molars, analyzing intra- and interexaminer agreement of the results. STUDY DESIGN An observational, descriptive study of 280 lower third molars was made. The corresponding orthopantomographs were analyzed by two examiners using the Radio Memor...

introduction: breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related death among women. the aim of this study was to assess the pathologic findings of patients with breast cancer who were referred to the pathology ward in bandarabbas during 2002 to 2010. methods and materials: in this descriptive study in 2010, all patients with breast cancer who were referred to the pathology ward of bandara...

The present research is aimed to ascertain the role of locus of control in mediating or coping on various degree/levels of stress among the college/university teachers of Bahawalpur. For that purpose a sample of N=200 male/female college/university teachers was selected by convenient sampling. Research tools, Locus of control by Julian Rotter (1966) and Stress questionnaire by International Str...

Background: Various epidemiological survey have reported an increase in allergic diseases all around the world. The urbanization and globalization in the developing countries have resulted in drastic environmental changes and increased allergens present in the environment. Nevertheless very few studies have been done on young adult Nigerians. Objective: This study aimed to find out the prevalen...

A step-to-step introduction is provided on how to generate a semantic map from a collection of messages (full texts, paragraphs or statements) using freely available software and/or SPSS for the relevant statistics and the visualization. The techniques are discussed in the various theoretical contexts of (i) linguistics (e.g., Latent Semantic Analysis), (ii) sociocybernetics and social systems ...