the present paper investigates how far ideologies can be tease out in discourse by examining the employed schemata by two ideologically opposed news media, the bbc and press tv, to report syria crisis during a period of nine months in 2011. by assuming that news is not a valuefree construction of facts and drawing on micro structural approach of schema theory, for the first time in discours...

Background: Medical negligence occurs when a professional is failed to use proper level of care, skill or diligence in the performance of its activity causing harm to its patient or when he failes to act in accordance with accepted medical practice. Medical negligence suits have become an issue of concern for doctors and health service departments and it can be a significant event for anyone...

assigning premium to the insurance contract in iran mostly has based on some old rules have been authorized by government, in such a situation predicting premium by analyzing database and it’s characteristics will be definitely such a big mistake. therefore the most beneficial information one can gathered from these data is the amount of loss happens during one contract to predicting insurance ...

Introduction and purpose: Elder abuse is a type of family violence that has recently been recognized as an extensive and growing social dilemma. Therefore, this study aims to identify elder abuse and its related factors within the families. Materials and methods: This descriptive-cross sectional study used convenience sampling method to collect 251 elderly admitted to surgery and internal wa...

Introduction: Despite the efforts of the medical community, the number of complaints from the medical staff is increasing. Complaints about obstetrics and gynecology are among the most common in recent years. Method: The study (descriptive, analytical and cross-sectional) is applied based on the purpose and was done by census method. Complaint files from obstetricians and gynecologists ...