background & aim: assessment of quality of life(qol) is one of the most active areas in modern studies. qol is a term to describe individuals' health and affective, social and physical wellbeing and also to demonstrate their ability for accomplishing daily routine tasks. this study aimed to compare qol domains in fertile and infertile women. method & materials: forty-four infertile women referr...

As a digital system becomes more important in recent years, software specification and analysis techniques become a central problem in the safety-critical systems. Therefore, the importance of software verification and validation (V&V) based on an adequate specification is more emphasized in view of the software quality. For a thorough V&V, it should be performed throughout whole software life ...

Pervasive computing is a paradigm that focuses on availability and non-intrusive integration of computing services into everyday life. Context awareness is the basic principle of pervasive computing. The important part of high-level context awareness is situation awareness – the ability to detect and reason about the real-life situations. The specifications of situations are often carried out m...

please cite this article as : heidarnia ma, ghaemian t, montazeri a, abadi ar. evaluation of the relation between poverty and health-related quality of life in the people over 60 years-old in the district 4 of tehran municipality in 2009-2010. novel biomed 2013;1:23-28. as the articles in recent years well indicate, more than all other factors, social determinants of health are involved in peop...

background: chronic renal failure and dialysis causes symptoms which can affect the patient's quality of sleep and quality of life. therefore, this study aimed to determine the relationship between sleep qualities, and quality of life in hemodialysis patients in the chaharmahal and bakhtiari province. methods: this was a descriptive-analytical study. the study population consisted of the dialys...

We are located in the context of the simulation of complex industrial systems and distributed in geographical, decisional and informational term. This paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, we position us within the studying framework of a modeling and specification methodology suggested by (Galland et al. 1999). We briefly expose the problems as well as the considered solutions. I...