Atrazine is one of the most frequently used herbicides. This usage coupled with its mobility and recalcitrant nature in deeper soils and aquifers makes it a frequently encountered groundwater contaminant. We formed biobarriers in sand filled columns by coating the sand with soybean oil; after which, we inoculated the barriers with a consortium of atrazine-degrading microorganisms and evaluated ...

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: according to professionalization in nursing profession, the nursing researches expanded dramatically and rapidly in a very short period. research results showed improvement in quality of provided care by using research findings. but there is still a gap between nursing research and practice, which led scientists to explore the barriers and facilitators of research utilizati...

purpose this case study explores the lived experiences of an elite female paralympic powerlifting athlete. the focus is on restrictions and coping responses employed to manage the daily hassles within the cultural and ethnic requirements for achieving athletic excellence. methods with an unstructured interview, the narrative was acquired which ranged to a total of 75 minutes (approx) and 20 sin...

objective: the pap smear is a reliable, inexpensive and effective screening test for cervical cancer; the second most common cancer among women worldwide. we aimed to determine women’s knowledge, attitudes and practice towards pap smear and barriers for the screening in a public hospital. materials and methods: this study, was carried out on 350  outpatient married women reffering for a visit a...

this study has been conducted with the aim of surveying the barriers and challenges of research in universities from the perspective of faculty members (islamic azad and payam-e nour, razi, medical sciences) in kermanshah done. questionnaire being used in this research is barriers and challenges from the perspective of research at universities retrieved from master thesis, it was based on liker...

Few teams have been dealing with the analysis of architectural drawings. Lately, our team has begun investigation in this field. This paper presents our first results. After a brief introduction to the specificities of architectural drawings and a short review of existing work, we describe the low-level processing steps we have implemented: segmentation, vectorization and detection of arcs, loo...

the aim of this study was to assess the barriers to participation of iranian people with sci in recreational physical activity (rpa). methodology of this survey was applied in terms of goal and descriptive-analytical with regard to data collection. the statistical population consisted of people with sci under the supervision of the state welfare organization of iran (n=12851), and 443 subjects ...