Abstract People in contemporary society are increasingly being addressed as agentic individuals who held responsible for personal aspects of their life and beyond. These contain the design organization one’s path terms of, e.g., (lifelong) education, work retirement planning, health care, work-life balance, happiness; or with regard to more abstract concepts like sustainability, individual subj...

background: despite progression of knowledge of nursing researcher about importance of psychometric principles of instruments of studies but it seems that this subject is not used correctly in nursing studies. this study is designed to critically assess the validity and reliability of instruments applied in studies published in iranian nursing journals methods: this study is a critical review o...

Studies of human growth throughout Iran since 1966 have been surveyed critically. Only 32 papers and 15 research reports on this very crucial issue have been published or compiled so far, most of them on Tehran and Shiraz, which is negligible in comparison with American or European and even some African and Asian studies. Though measurements of height and weight naturally predominate, arm ...

studies of human growth throughout iran since 1966 have been surveyed critically. only 32 papers and 15 research reports on this very crucial issue have been published or compiled so far, most of them on tehran and shiraz, which is negligible in comparison with american or european and even some african and asian studies. though measurements of height and weight naturally predominate, arm circu...

This essay explores transnational STS as an analytic capable of recognizing the heterogeneities, pluralities, and relationalities drugs—legal illegal, products agriculture or laboratory—as emblematic material-semiotic actors that move between global North, West, South, East into out bodies. Critical drug studies flourishes a transdisciplinary knowledge project at nexus anthropology, history, so...