background and aims: internet seems to be increasingly involved a major part of the daily lives of population. in recent years, many reports have confirmed the huge number of internet users worldwide. this article is seeking to explore the factors contributing to the tendency to internet in students of shahrekord university of medical sciences (skums) and aimed to recommend some preventive stra...

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GQM+Strategies is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies to achieve overall business goals and assesses the achievement of such goals. Strategies are extracted from business goals based on rationales (contexts and assumptions). Using the proposed approach, which refines the GQM+Strategies model by extracting rationales based on the analysis of ...

In a developing country like India, the pendulum of population is now swinging towards elderly where the population of 60 years plus has crossed 8.8% mark.1 No wonder the diseases of old age and chronic diseases2,3 are on the rise. The socioeconomic scenario is also changing4 and elderly are becoming more and more health conscious as well as demanding. The number of old elderly is also increasi...

Diabetes mellitus is a global epidemic affecting more than 150 million persons and it is expected that this number is likely to double by 20251. Diabetic nephropathy is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease in patients starting renal replacement therapy and is associated with increased cardiovascular mortality. Renal involvement in patients with diabetes is defined by the appearance of lo...

According to the American Cancer Society, in 2012 ovarian cancer is expected to account for 3% (22,280) of all new cases and 6% (15,500) of all female cancer deaths in the United States. The proportion of ovarian cancer among gynaecological cancers is increasing, also because of the decrease in cervical cancer as a result of pap smear screening programmes. On the other hand, survival from ovari...