Objectives Oral health is a major component of overall health improvement and well-being. A large number of children are suffering from Early Childhood Caries (ECC). Parental knowledge and level of education can improve their child’s oral health care leading to reduction of ECC incidence. The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of education and knowledge in a group of parents, having th...

The interest in indoor service robots is increasing day by day. Depending on the specific application, an array of issues and problems must be dealt with in order to obtain a stable and satisfactory behavior. A major problem that applies to all types of service robots (and robots in general) is concerning the navigation. Two ingredients are necessary in order to achieve navigation; a map of the...

This systematic review aims to identify factors that facilitate or hinder the return for HIV test results. Four electronic databases were searched. Two independent reviewers selected eligible publications based on inclusion/exclusion criteria. Quantitative studies published since 1985 were included. Thirty-six studies were included in the final review. Individual level barriers included sociode...

the quantitative relationship between higher education and economic growth in the tradition of “growth accounting equations” and also “neoclassical production function” approach have occupied a pride of place in economics of education, particularly the literature on more developed countries. however, production function type models that allow for isolating the “indirect” (external) effects of h...

the primary purpose of this study is to determine the status of human capital management practices in faculties of management and psychology and education university of tehran. the present study is an applied research in terms of aim, and is a descriptive-survey research in terms of data collection .so, 118 employees were chosen through stratified sampling. they completed human capital drivers ...

Good or poor nutrition education begins in early life. Often reinforced by misguided parental threats and entreaties, the preschool child, within the framework of personal preference, usually displays uncritical acceptance of family eating patterns. When he first enters school he regards his own eating habits, whether the emphasis is on pie and chips, meat and two vegetables or on vegan fare, a...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relation between gender, sociodemographic factors, pain, smoking, and the level of anxiety and depressive symptoms after traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) in a Saudi sample. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study from November 2009 to April 2011, in 102 (age range 17-70 years; 84 males, 18 females) TSCI patients admitted to the Spinal Cord Injury Unit, Sul...

in this paper we argue about knowledge management (km) and its implications for academic productivity with focus on models of changes in knowledge production posited by gibbons et al and community model of knowledge management, especially in a transitional society as iran.  based on the above argument, we have discussed the relationships between research and teaching productivity, briefly. beca...