CONTEXT HIV self-tests are currently being introduced in France with the aim of promoting screening both for the general population and for high-risk populations. OBJECTIVE The current study aimed to identify and compare the information and support needs of the different target population groups. METHODS The Delphi process was used to synthesize expert opinions for each population group. Ex...

a new antagonistic discourse has been formed among intellectuals, in the intellectual history of the world.  some anti-british, and after september 1941 anti-american activities are evident among iranian intellectuals under the rule of pahlavi i. the westerns' anti-west beliefs disclose the unjust behavior of west in contrast to non-westerns, what chamskey introduces as one of intellectual...

in this paper the minimum temperatures of 54 weather stations collected for a 31-year period were analyzed for zoning the frost regions in iran. the results of this study show that the average of the number of frost days per year was 62, and the average temperature was 3 degrees of centigrade below zero. dey the tenth month in the iranian calendar, december 22-january 20 with an average of 28, ...

The meiotic chromosomes of 10 species (Pohlia elongata, Anomobryum cymbifolium, Brachymenium acuminatum, B. ochianum, B. sikkimense, Bryum cellulare, B. pseudotriquetrum, B. apiculatum, B. capillare and B. atrovirense), in four genera of the family Bryaceae of acrocarpous mosses are studied with special emphasis on their evolution, polyploidy and cytological features with reference to interrela...

Steven D. Brooks,* Evan DeVallance,* Alexandre C. d’Audiffret, Stephanie J. Frisbee, Lawrence E. Tabone, Carl D. Shrader, Jefferson C. Frisbee, and Paul D. Chantler Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, West Virginia University Health Sciences Center, Morgantown, West Virginia; Division of Exercise Physiology, West Virginia University Health Sciences Center, Morgantown, West Virginia; Depa...

As widespread deserts is located in west and southwest of Iran plateau, dust storms form due to west andsouthwest systems over Syria or Iraq as well as Arabian Peninsula. These systems severely affect west and southwestregions. Sometimes the fine dusts transmit to central, north east, and east regions. In this study for investigating dustysynoptical patterns, meteorological data at 5 synoptic s...

ran and japan are two asian countries which in confrontation with west superiorities, started the reforms and modernization in the modern shape. the two countries reformist and modernistic elites found it necessary to be leved with the west in the fields of military, economy, training and so on the reforms and modernization. japan reforms and modernization with restitution of power to the emper...