results ninety (74.6%) patients were male and 33 (25.4%) were female. they were in the age range of 20-60 years old. fifty four (41.5%) patients had moderate social acceptance and 76 (58.5%) had high social acceptance scores. conclusions among the variables including age, gender, education, occupation, residential area, marital status, family history of hiv/aids, family history of psychiatric d...

Appearance of nationalism in each country is influenced by some social , religious and political factors throughout the history of that country In Iranian contemporary history, this process has also been dependent upon opinions and thoughts of some of the nationalist intellectuals and modernists their intellectual products played an important role in various social , intellectual and even artis...

The secure mlllti-party compnt.ation (ShIC) illode1 provitles ineails for l~alailciilg the use and confidentiality of distribut.ed data. Iilcreasiilg security coilcerils 11al.e led to a surge in work oil practical secure 1nult.i-party coinputatioil protocols. However. inost are only proveil secure under the semi-hoilest model, and security under this adversary illode1 is iils~~fici~iit for illo...

The inherent dynamic competitiveness of the new economy brings about novel challenges to antitrust enforcements. We evaluate the appropriateness of the 1992 Horizontal Merger Guidelines in light of this new environment. We show that the Guidelines relies too heavily on market concentration measures that are bound to be overstated for new-economy industries. To properly address the dynamic compe...

Although nobody can pinpoint exactly the date when the first computer entered the home, it is safe to say that the current diffusion cycle can be traced back to the early 1980s. The first 10 to 15 years might be described as a period of anticipation as well as one of development in fits and starts. But the next decade appears to be one of greater promise. That the Internet is at the center of t...

There is accumulating evidence that the workplace environment contributes significantly to the general burden of asthma. The purpose of this review is to explore the respiratory health and socioeconomic consequences of work-related asthma by addressing a series of controversial issues: 1) what is the natural history of occupational asthma and in what ways does ongoing exposure to the causal age...

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In recent years the role of social networks, and of social capital, in shaping migrants’ lived experiences and particularly, their employment opportunity has increasingly come to be recognised. However, very little of this research has adopted a relational understanding of the migrant experience, taking the influence of non-migrants’ own networks on migrants as an important factor in influencin...