the aim of this study was to evaluate suicide probability in iranian males with substance abuse or dependence disorder and to investigate the predictors of suicide probability based on trait mindfulness, reasons for living and severity of general psychiatric symptoms.participants were 324 individuals with substance abuse or dependence in an outpatient setting and prison. reasons for living ques...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to compare the setting time and post-setting solubility, flow, film thickness and dimensional changes of ah26 root canal sealer with ah26-antibiotic combination. materials and methods: this study was performed according to british standard bs 6876 (2001) which tests the physicochemical properties of endodontic sealers. three samples of each of tested ...

The current study investigated the effects of L1 and L2 glosses on L2 vocabulary retention in incidental and intentional settings. To this end, 100 intermediate Iranian female learners of English as a foreign language at Soroosh High School were given a pre-test to make sure that they do not have any prior knowledge of the target words. Reading passages with three different glossing conditions ...

With demand for health services continuing to grow as populations age and new technologies emerge to meet health needs, healthcare policy-makers are under constant pressure to set priorities, ie, to make choices about the health services that can and cannot be funded within available resources. In a recent paper, Smith et al apply an influential policy studies framework – Kingdon’s multiple str...

In current clinical practice, priority-specific wait time targets are usually determined based on the consensus of medical specialists and health care administrators. The rationale behind this approach considers urgency but it does not consider efficient use resources patient volume associated with each priority class. we present here aims to determine in a systematic fashion that both respects...

In this paper, we introduce the concept of generalized quasi-contractions in the setting of cone $b$-metric spaces over Banach algebras. By omitting the  assumption of normality we establish common fixed point theorems for the generalized quasi-contractions  with the spectral radius $r(lambda)$ of the quasi-contractive constant vector $lambda$ satisfying $r(lambda)in [0,frac{1}{s})$  in the set...

The ability to perceive the chemical world is a universal feature of life. In mammals, the olfactory system detects and discriminates between vast numbers of distinct volatile molecules (recently estimated at an astonishing > 1012 in humans) providing critical information that allows an organism to respond appropriately to changes in its environment. The universe of volatile odorants is accommo...