background: university staff plays an important role in breeding a healthy and prosperous generation. their right for attending to interests and selfactualization are noticeable. this qualitative research has been conducted in order to understand and explain the perspective and experience of staff working at ahvaz jundishapur university of medical sciences (ajums) about leisure time. methods: a...

conclusions: the core variable of our research is acceptance of the reality of the conditions caused by the disease. the research finalized our knowledge about patient problems regarding social support and revealed many problems of supporting patients by health team members, family members and organizations. the findings suggest that individual aspects of patient experiences must be considered ...

The paper aims to study the sensor that identifies the maturity of oil palm fruit bunches by using a flat-type inductive concept based on a resonant frequency technique. Conventionally, a human grader is used to inspect the ripeness of the oil palm fresh fruit bunch (FFB) which can be inconsistent and inaccurate. There are various new methods that are proposed with the intention to grade the ri...

In March-April 2016, 3288 original tweets tagged with #MND #ALS and other minor related tags (e.g., #cureALS #cureMND) were analysed using mixed quantitative and qualitative methods on tweet data and content. In this paper we outline the technical methods used in gathering and selecting relevant tweets for analysis, and present the results including inductive coding of content themes. The findi...

BACKGROUND Electrical stimulation is used to treat nonunions and to augment spinal fusions. We studied the biochemical pathways that are activated in signal transduction when various types of electrical stimulation are applied to bone cells. METHODS Cultured MC3T3-E1 bone cells were exposed to capacitive coupling, inductive coupling, or combined electromagnetic fields at appropriate field str...

abstract background: to respond efficiently to the increasing and new needs of people in health issues, it is necessary for nurses to develop their knowledge from hospital to society and to be equipped to play entrepreneur role in different levels of care. the present study was conducted to describe iranian entrepreneur nurses’ perceived barriers to entrepreneurship, in order to identify the ex...

abstract background: few attempts were made for alleviating the physical/psychological problems among the cardiac valve–replaced patients and no comprehensive study was done based on the experiences of such patients. this study was undertaken to describe the stressful experiences of the heart valve-replaced patients. materials and methods: in this qualitative study performed during 2012-2013 wi...