BACKGROUND Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is a multi-dimensional concept commonly used to examine the impact of health status on quality of life. HRQOL is often measured by four core questions that asked about general health status and number of unhealthy days in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). Use of these measures individually, however, may not provide a cohesi...

Currently, criminal’s profile (CP) is obtained from investigator’s or forensic psychologist’s interpretation, linking crime scene characteristics and an offender’s behavior to his or her characteristics and psychological profile. This paper seeks an efficient and systematic discovery of non-obvious and valuable patterns between variables from a large database of solved cases via a probabilistic...

abstract the purpose of this study was to study the relations between the self- leadership behavioral- focused strategies and creativity among the faculty members of iran university of science and technology. the population consisted of all faculty members of iran university of science and technology in the academic year of 2008- 2009 of whom 113 subjects were selected by proportional stratifie...

in this study, we addressed the relationship between corporate reputation and customer behavioral intentions in the eghtesad novin bank. for this purpose, we considered the components: trust, identification and commitment as mediator variables that led to formulating 8 hypothesis .the research population was the customers of eghtesad novin bank in tehran branches who had at least one active acc...

background: as adolescent tobacco smoking has become a widespread problem in developing countries, it is time to understand the cognitive determinants of adolescents' decisions to engage in tobacco smoking. this study aimed to investigate the predicting factors associated with tobacco smoking among male adolescents based on prototype willingness model (pwm) as a theoretical framework. methods :...