• Five percent of the population accounts for almost half (49 percent) of total health care expenses. • The 15 most expensive health conditions account for 44 percent of total health care expenses. • Patients with multiple chronic conditions cost up to seven times as much as patients with only one chronic condition. Further detailed analyses of these spending patterns, how they change over time...

geographic information system (gis) and analytical hierarchy process (ahp) were applied to ecological zoning of current agricultural lands in gorgan for sunflower cultivation. for this purpose, agro-ecological requirements of sunflower firstly, identified according to scientific resources. rating and thematic requirement maps were then provided. studied environmental-components were: average, m...

Introduction: Contraception is a procedure that can be used to avoid pregnancy or childbirth. When women choose prevent have longer birth, they frequently use contraceptives. The global prevalence rate of contraceptive was 64 percent, with Africa responsible for 33 percent. Ethiopia has an estimated 39.2 percent its population engaging in this activity. Objectives: This study aimed identify the...

BACKGROUND Because GH exerted beneficial effects in various experimental models of heart failure, we investigated the effects of GH on physical exercise capacity and cardiopulmonary performance in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy and chronic heart failure (CHF). METHODS Twenty-two patients with CHF (New York Heart Association functional class II-III) underwent spirometry and a symptom-lim...

Plot data from the USFS FIA program could be combined with terrain variables to attempt to explain how terrain characteristics influence forest growth, species composition, productivity, fire behavior, wildlife habitat, and other phenomena. While some types of analyses using FIA data have been shown to be insensitive to precision of plot locations, it has been suggested that terrain-based model...

the erosion in dryland caused decrease in yield and soil quality, especially in slope land with conventional tillage. to investigate effect of tillage and planting methods in slope land on erosion and yield of dryland wheat, an experiment was conducted in 2007 at kermanshah province. the statistical design for this research was strip split plots in rcb (randomized complete blocks) with three re...