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Aims: The presence of a patient with breast cancer in the family can be considered as a guidance for further prevention and increase the susceptibility of people against this disease. Champion's health belief model scale is translated and tested in different countries, but few attempts have been made to measure this scale in women with history of breast cancer. Methods: After the standard Champion's Health Belief Model Scale was translated, 28 items were extracted with the help of panel of experts (n=13) and focus group (n=42) in four subscales. The eligible women were selected randomly (n=200) and took part in this study. The participants filled in the questionnaire through interviews. To test the construct validity of the data, the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was applied using AMOS software, moreover, test of internal consistency and test of reliability were applied by retesting (n=30). Findings: The confirmatory factor analysis, which, was repeated after omitting these two items for the subscale of perceived barriers and shows the proper fit of its structural model. Cronbach 'alpha coefficients were 0.72 (susceptibility), 0.75 (seriousness), 0.82 (benefits) and 0.76 (barriers). Internal consistency ranged from 0 .64 to 0 .79 and test-retest reliability correlation were from 0 .67 to 0.92. Conclusions: The Persian version of the Champion's Health Belief Model Scale can be a reliable and valid measure in Iranian women with family history of breast cancer.

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Abstract This article examines the relation of national pride with personality (authoritism and democratic), efficacy (political efficacy and social efficacy) and political knowledge. The aim is to explain the meaning of national pride as the, positive feeling of people to their country, and Conceptualize this in two types; nationalism and patriotism. The methodology of this study is social survey. Samples of study have been selected from among all residents over 15 years old in the fourteen sectors of Isfahan city (Iran). According to the 2006 Census, the size of this population is around 1248754 people. In the next step, by applying the Kokran Formula and quota sampling, 384 people were selected and examined as samples of the study. The findings showed that nationalism has positive correlation with authoritism personality, social efficacy. It and political efficacy also has negative correlation with democratic personality and political knowledge. Patriotism has positive correlation with democratic personality, social efficacy and political knowledge. In addition, it has negative correlation with authoritism personality and political efficacy.

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Research subject: In this study, the occurrence of flooding due to the accumulation of sediment in the downcomer area, which led to an excessive increase in liquid on the upper trays of the distillation column was investigated in a refinery.
Research approach: Vacuum pressure in the upper area of the column, boiler feed water flow from the inlet to the condenser and the discharge of the net product as three very important and effective operational parameters in controlling the severity of the flooding phenomena and the amount of coking value as an important laboratory parameter to reduce the volume of inlet sediments entering the distillation column. Data and results of changes made on each of these three operational parameters showed their effectiveness in controlling the severity of the flooding phenomena.
Main results: In order to control and reduce the problems caused by the simultaneous flooding phenomena around the vacuum pump, the boiler feed water flow of the inlet to the condenser and the flow of the net output product were proportionally increased until the operating conditions of the distillation column are normalized. In this study, how to control the flooding phenomena and reduce the adverse effects due to the accumulation of sediments in the downcomer area of tray No. 22 and above was investigated.
To overcome these problems, first the vacuum pump rotation speed was increased from 850 rpm to 1250 rpm and the boiler feed water inlet to the condenser from 1.95 m³/hr to 3.2 m³/hr was increased. On the other hand, in order to prevent contamination of the pure product, the net output product flow rate also increased from 925 kg/hr to 2300 kg/hr. Also, with regular and accurate control of the coking value index as a very important laboratory parameter, the volume of coke sediments in the coal tar feed entering the distillation column was reduced from 37.5% by weight to 18.4% in a 30-day period after centrifugation.

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Aims: Preventive behaviors play an important role in reducing mortality caused by this disease. This study aimed to determine the application of the extended theory of planned behavior to predicting preventive behaviors against COVID-19.
Instrument & Methods: In this descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study, 416 university students were selected and examined through virtual networks through convenience and snowball sampling methods. The data collection tool was developed by the researcher-made questionnaire based on the extended theory of planned behavior. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and correlation test and linear regression by SPSS 18 software.
Findings: A positive and significant correlation was observed between the mean of all the studied theoretical constructs with preventive behaviors against COVID-19 (p<0.01). Attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and perception of others' behavior predicted 43% of behavioral intention variance. Moreover, behavioral intention perceived behavioral control and perception of others’ behavior predicted 56% of preventive behaviors variance against COVID-19. Behavioral intention, attitude, perception of others' behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control had the greatest impact on COVID-19 preventive behaviors.
Conclusion: The extended theory of planned behavior can be used as an appropriate framework in designing educational interventions to promote preventive behaviors against COVID-19.

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Aims: One of the essential strategies in reducing energy supplements, especially in adolescents and young individuals, is preventive measures, such as training. This study aimed to determine the effect of prototype willingness model-based training on bodybuilder athletes
Materials & Methods: This randomized clinical trial study was conducted on 112 bodybuilder athletes in Sabzevar and was selected by cluster sampling method. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire based on the prototype willingness model. The educational intervention was performed for the experimental group based on the pre-test results. Data were analyzed using descriptive and analytical tests in SPSS 21 software.  
Findings: The three constructs of attitude, subjective norms, and intention accounted for 23. 1% of the variance in behavioral intention, among which the effect of attitude was more than other variables. Behavioral intention and behavioral willingness predicted 14% of the behavior variance that Behavioral intention had the most significant impact on behavior. Regarding the effect of educational interventions, there was a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of model constructs of imagery and intentions between the two groups before and two months after the educational intervention(p<0.05).
Conclusion: Educational interventions based on the prototype/willingness model could effectively improve the preventive predictor’s behavior of not using energy supplements. The educational intervention aimed at increasing the attitude and reducing the influence of friends can provide the basis for lowering intention and ultimately decreasing the intake of energy supplements in athletes.
 

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In a mechanical assembly, errors arising from part manufacturing or assembly process may cause significant variation in final assembly with respect to the ideal model and affect the quality and performance of product. In sheet metal products due to high order of compliancy of components, errors generated during assembly process are as important as parts’ manufacturing tolerances. Therefore, it is crucial to have a comprehensive model in order to analyze the assembly process of these structures and represent the relationship between part tolerances and final assembly errors. However, it should be noted that assembly processes are often complex and nonlinear in nature. In sheet metal structures, the most important factor that makes the assembly process nonlinear is contact interaction between mating parts during assembly. If this factor is disregarded and the assembly process is only represented based on linear force-displacement relationship, the model will result in part penetration and a remarkable difference between theoretical and experimental results will occur. Another important feature in sheet metal tolerance analysis is the surface continuity of components which makes the deformation of the neighboring points of a plate correlated. This paper aims to present a new methodology for tolerance analysis of compliant sheet metal assemblies in which a nonlinear finite element analysis is integrated with improved sensitivity-free probability analysis in order to account ...

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In the present work, the elastodynamic field of scattering of an anti-plane high frequency elastic shear wave due to an embedded nano cylindrical cavity in an infinite elastic medium is obtained by considering the effects of couple-stresses. In the theories accounting the effects of couple-stresses in their formulations, a new characteristic length of material is introduced into the formulations, and so, these are capable to capture size effect at micro and nano scales. Also, in contrary to classical continuum theory which has difficulties in describing dispersion of wave at high frequencies, observed dispersive wave in experiments can be explained in the framework of these theories. In this work, the analytical expressions of elastodynamic fields around the cavity are obtained by considering equation of motion, dispersion relation and appropriate boundary conditions in the framework of two theories considering couple-stresses. Also, the dynamic stress concentration factor around the cavity within these theories is obtained, and, as a limiting case, the results of two cases of dynamic stress concentration factor in classical theory as well as static stress concentration factor in couple stress theories are recovered. In the framework of these theories, by several examples, the effects of frequency of incident wave and the ratio of couple stress characteristic length to the size of the cross section of the cavity on the displacement field, stress field and dynamic stress concentration factor around the cavity are studied, and the results are compared with the corresponding classical solutions.

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Cemented carbides are the most common cutting tool materials. To improve machining process, the surface of the cutting tools must be wear resitance with high hardness and chemical inertness. In recent years, several coatings have been developed for tungsten carbide. In this paper, the effect of TiN/TiCN/Al2O3 multicoatings on the performance of drilling process of spherodized cast iron was studied. The external layer is Al2O3 which has high resitance to wear and TiN was chosen as internal layer because of it excellent adhesion to the tungsten carbide surface. The intermediate layer was TiCN because of its compatibility with the other layers. At first, drills were prepared by machining process and then the triple layer coating was applied on the surface of tungsten carbide drills by chemical vapor deposition method. The coating process was performed under usual industrial condition. The thickness of the coatings was 10 micrometers. The wear of drills, the surface roughness and the hole diameter tolerance were investigated. The structure of coating and wear surface was studied by scanning electron microscopy. It was found that the multiple coating significantly improved the wear resistance of the drill compared to uncoated tolls. In addition, it was found that the surface roughness and hole diameter tolerances improved by drilling with coated tools. The reason of this would be the lower wear rate and resulting dimension stability of the coated tools. In addition, according ot wear surface structure, it was concluded that the mechanism of wear was abrasion.

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The appearance quality of automotive bodies is among the features which are, in recent years, significantly taken into consideration by designers throughout the world. Automotive bodies are, to a great extent, constructed from flexible sheet metal components and would deform and distorted easily by even a slight assembly force. Therefore, errors due to manufacture and assembly processes of automotive bodies lead to major deviation from the ideal product and finally affect the appearance quality and cosmetic features of the vehicle. The effect of these errors, which are commonly arisen by dimensional, geometric or assembly tolerance of the components, can be examined by tolerance analysis. As one of the key quality characteristics in vehicle design, this paper evaluates the appearance quality of automotive bodies as a function of assembly derived errors. In the proposed methodology, by means of the nonlinear finite element analysis and by presenting the surface interrogation techniques, a comprehensive approach of quality appearance evaluation of vehicles is developed. The approach is validated by a vehicle example and the results show a great consistence with practical data obtained from the production line.

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In this paper, instability due to occurrence of parametric resonance in transverse vibration of a rectangular plate on an elastic foundation under passage of continuous series of moving masses is examined as a model of bridge-moving loads interaction. The extended Hamilton’s principle is employed to derive the partial differential equation of motion. Subsequently, the governing partial differential equation is transformed into a set of ordinary differential equations by the Galerkin procedure. Considering local, Coriolis and centripetal acceleration components of the moving masses in the analysis leads to appearance of time-varying mass, damping and stiffness matrices in the coefficients of the governing equation. The passage of continuous series of moving masses along the rectilinear path results in a parametrically excited system with periodic coefficients. Applying incremental harmonic balance method as a semi-analytical method to the governing equations, stability of the system is investigated for a wide range of masses and velocities of the passing loads and different boundary conditions of the plate. Moreover, effect of the foundation stiffness on stability of the plate is examined. Results indicate that using clamped supports for the edges of entrance and departure of masses over the plate’s surface leads to formation of an instability tongue in the parameters plane which does not appear for the case of using simply supports. Also, it is observed that critical velocities of the moving masses will be increased by escalation the foundation stiffness. Numerical simulations confirm the accuracy of the semi-analytical results.

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Citrus plants are hosts of several viroid species, among which, pathogenic variants of Hop Stunt Viroid (HSVd) induce citrus cachexia disease. Stunting, chlorosis, gumming of the bark, stem pitting and decline are symptoms of cachexia in mandarins and their hybrids as susceptible hosts. Based on the pathogenic properties on citrus, HSVd variants are divided in two distinct groups: those that are symptomless on sensitive citrus host species and those that induce cachexia disease. In this study, two cachexia isolates were selected and biological indexing was performed in a controlled temperature greenhouse (40ºC day and 28ºC night) using Etrog citron (Citrus medica) grafted on Rough lemon (C. jhambiri), as a common indicator for citrus viroids. The plants were inoculated with the inocula from a severe symptomatic tree of a newly declining orchard of Jiroft, Kerman province and a mild symptomatic tree from Mazandaran province. Presence of HSVd was confirmed with sPAGE, Hybridization by DIG-labeled probes and RT-PCR using specific primers of HSVd. Primary and secondary structures of the isolates were studied. The consensus sequence of RT-PCR amplicons of the severe isolate (JX430796) presented 97% identity with the reference sequence of a IIb variant of HSVd (AF213501) and an Iranian isolate of the viroid (GQ923783) deposited in the gene bank. The mild isolate (JX430798) presented 100% homology with the HSVd-IIc variant previously reported from Iran (GQ923784). Both isolates were shown to be cachexia inducing according to their sizes, sequences and lack of “non-cachexia expression motif” structures.

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Tolerance analysis plays a crucial role in predicting the quality of products and reducing production costs. This procedure is generally complex and available methods for analyzing different types of assemblies are not always applicable. Accordingly, having a comprehensive approach to assess the effect of tolerances on the quality and cost of products is a fundamental requirement in the manufacturing industry. This paper proposes the improved second-order method for tolerance analysis of complex assemblies. The conventional second-order tolerance analysis (SOTA) is an accurate and applicable method for obtaining the statistical specifications of the assembly’s key characteristic. However, determining the assembly function in SOTA entails forming vector loops and therefore, this method is limited to simple assemblies. On the other hand, in mechanical assemblies that are usually complex, creating vector loop may encounter some difficulties in practice. In this study, the mentioned issues have been overcome by linking SolidWorks and MATLAB software to employ the proposed methodology for any mechanical assemblies without creating vector loops. For this purpose, MATLAB software makes necessary changes in the SolidWorks model and calculates the derivatives of the assembly function, which are required for the analysis. Then, the statistical moments are computed and the probability distribution of the key characteristic is obtained using the Pearson system. The present study is appropriate for analyzing either linear or nonlinear assembly functions with any statistical distribution. Finally, the applicability of the proposed approach is investigated by some practical examples and the accuracy of results is confirmed by Monte Carlo simulation.

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A deep understanding of literary texts strongly depends on understanding the factors that contributed to their creation. One of these factors is how an author is inspired by the intellectual poetics of other literary figures. The present study seeks to use a functional linguistic framework to investigate the influence of Shahriar’s language and mind on Hooshang Ebtehaj’s ghazals and closely analyze the latter’s tendency towards Shahriar’s poetic style. These influences can be divided into three types: imitative (based on repetition), combined (based on repetition and intra-process change), and interpretative (based on repetition and extra-process change). Our findings suggest that Ebtehaj tends towards change and creativity instead of mere imitation. The factors contributing to Ebtehaj’s inspiration from Shahriar’s poetics include his love of Shahriar and his works, the popularity of Shahriar’s works, and the role of audience as well as the historical context.
 

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Composite materials are of great interest due to their exceptional strength, hardness-to-density ratio, high corrosion resistance, and low weight. One of the suitable methods for making composite pipes is using the extrusion process. Extrusion is a plastic deformation process that due to the compressive state of stress in extrusion, materials with low plasticity can be formed by this method. This article deals with the experimental-numerical investigation of extrusion, from various methods of forming process. Extrusion is done on a composite tube using aluminum and magnesium alloys. Aluminum is used due to its strength compared to high weight, excellent malleability, and magnesium due to the lightest structural metal, the lowest density among structural materials, machining, welding and casting capabilities, as well as high specific strength. The mentioned process was tested at different extrusion ratio, temperature and speed, and the effect of different process parameters on the properties of the extruded product was investigated. Then the process was simulated in the software and the experimental results obtained from the laboratory work and the numerical results obtained from the simulation were compared and validated with each other and the error percentage between the graphs of the experimental and numerical results was examined.

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Three different levels of biochar addition in soil (0, 1, 2 kg m^-2) and simultaneous irrigation treatments (50, 85, and 120% of crop Evapotranspiration (ET_c)) were applied to basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) for two consecutive years (2018 and 2019). Central Composite Design (CCD) was used as an experimental optimization method, and 13 given experiments were carried out. The study was performed at the research farm of the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. The effects of these treatments were evaluated on biochemical attributes (total chlorophyll, total phenol, and total soluble carbohydrates) and morphological criteria (biological yield, height, seed yield, and harvest index). Then, all the results were statistically analyzed. The results revealed that biochar amendment in the soil decreased all examined biochemical characteristics. Meanwhile, biochar in the soil strengthened the morphological properties of the basil plant. Also, the basil plant significantly responded to the amount of irrigation levels. High levels of water treatments reduced total phenol and total soluble carbohydrates and raised all other measured factors. Statistical analysis shows no significant relationship between 2-way-interaction (biochar×irrigation) and measured factors, except total soluble carbohydrates.