background & aim: the purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between stress coping styles and quality of life (qol) among patients with breast cancer. methods:this descriptive correlational study was conducted on 50 patients with breast cancer, selected via convenience sampling in kerman, iran. to collect data stress coping strategy scale (moss and billings, 1982) and th...

Recently, all the human genes were identified. But understanding the functions coded in the genes is a much harder problem. We are used to view DNA as some sort of a computer code, but there are striking differences. For example, by using entropy, it has been shown that the DNA code is much closer to random code than written text, which in turn is less ordered than ordinary computer code. Inste...