BACKGROUND Tobacco is a highly addictive substance. Tobacco usage is considered one of the main causes responsible for the death of adults worldwide, with 4.9 million deaths occurring worldwide each year. And if the current tobacco usage patterns continue, it will cause some 10 million deaths every year by 2020. MATERIALS AND METHODS A descriptive study was carried out among 566 prisoners of ...

abstract:due to the importance and benefits of entering premier league’s football clubs into stock market, this research has been done to assess the current status of mentioned clubs and compare it with the conditions for entering the stock market and give practical proposals for entering the premier league’s professional football clubs into stock market. this study was a descriptive-survey res...

All systems for managing data face common problems such as backup, recovery, auditing, security, data integrity and concurrent update. Other challenges include the ability to share data easily between applications and to distribute data across several computers, while continuing to manage the problems already mentioned. Geographic information systems are no exception, and need to tackle all the...

BACKGROUND The CONSORT statement specifies the need for a balanced presentation of both benefits and harms of medical interventions in trial reports. However, invitations to screening and newspaper articles often emphasize benefits and downplay or omit harms, and it is known that scientific articles can be influenced by conflicts of interest. We wanted to determine if a similar imbalance occurs...

Hospital nursing workers are exposed to occupational chemical risks. This quantitative study aimed to identify what chemical substances nurses have contact with in their activities, what substances cause health problems and what alterations correspond to possible problems caused by the chemical products they mention. A self-administered data collection instrument was answered by 53 nurses, who ...