background : patients undergoing pacemaker implantation often experience anxiety and fear. as such, studies have focused on the mechanisms that relieve the negative emotions caused by the intervention. continuous nursing is a safe and effective nursing mode. in this study, continuous nursing intervention was provided for elderly patients undergo-ing pacemaker implantation and an empirical inves...

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the psychological state of women and its associated factors in the third trimester of pregnancy and at eight weeks postpartum and to explore the changes in psychological state between these two time points. Material and Methods: This survey study was carried out on 358 pregnant women visiting urban health centers in Shahroud, northeast Iran, ...

We study inhomogeneous host-pathogen dynamics to model the global amphibian population extinction in a lake basin system. The lake basin system is modeled as quenched disorder. In this model we show that once the pathogen arrives at the lake basin it spreads from one lake to another, eventually spreading to the entire lake basin system in a wave like pattern. The extinction time has been found ...

there are many evident that people are more interested in walking in attractive urban spaces and inappropriate physical and psychological condition can reduce their presence in a remarkable amount. the current research investigates the influence of physical design and psychological elements and their criteria on selective physical activity and specifically walking in urban public spaces. howeve...

background psychological capital with components of hope, self efficacy, optimism, and resiliency has been recently proposed to bring positive psychology to the workplace. objectives we investigated psychological capital states of employees of the tehran university of medical sciences (tums) headquarter offices in tehran, iran. materials and methods a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical...