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Volume 7, Issue 1 (Winter 2019)
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Aims: Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) with social isolation, treatment rejection, and negative perception of the health status of patients. One of the methods to detect these problems is evaluating the quality of life. This study aimed at determining the effect of self-care behavior education on quality of life of patients after CABG based on Pender’s health promotion model.
Materials & Methods: This semi-experimental was conducted on cardiac surgery candidates, who underwent CABG in the cardiac center hospital of Mazandaran, Iran in 2017. Subjects were selected and divided into two intervention and control groups, using block randomization. at 220 individuals (110 cases per group), and data were collected, using interviews with subjects, the self-care questionnaire based on Pender’s health promotion model in cardiac surgery candidates, and SF-36 quality of life questionnaire. Moreover, the patients were followed-up and trained for 3 and 6 months after the intervention.
Findings: In this research, ANOVA results demonstrated that the different structures of quality of life significantly changed at 3 periods, including before, 3, and 6 months after the intervention (p<0.001). Furthermore, the mean total score of quality of life was higher in the intervention group (56.244±1.474), compared to the control group (48.120±1.508) in all 3 periods.
Conclusion: According to the results of the study, it is recommended that the model designed and used in the current research be applied to perform healthcare behaviors, so that the quality of life of patients can be improved after cardiac surgery.
Volume 7, Issue 1 (Winter 2019)
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Aim: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women.The Health Education Campaign (HEC) is an important educational strategy for breast cancer screening. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the (HEC) based training on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of women, regarding breast cancer screening methods.
Materials & Methods: This was a pre- and post-quasi-experimental study conducted among 200 women over 20 years in Mazandaran Province. A self-made 34-item questionnaire was used to collect the data. A pretest was performed before the educational intervention and a posttest was conducted 12 weeks after the intervention. The data were analyzed by logistic regression, Pearson correlation coefficient, and one way ANOVA, using SPSS 22.
Findings: The mean age of the women was 35.16 years. Based on paired t-test, the difference in the mean scores of knowledge and attitudes regarding screening methods in the women was significant (p≤0.0001) before and after the intervention. Also, based on the macnemar test, the difference between the early detection of breast self-examination (BSE) and clinical breast examination (CBE) was significant in the women studied before and after the educational intervention.
Conclusion: According to the results of the study, the intervention had been able to change the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of women regarding breast cancer and early detection methods.
Volume 8, Issue 3 (Summer 2020)
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Aims: Epidemiological transition of acute and infectious diseases to non-communicable ones, aging population, together with rapid lifestyle changes all have given rise to prevalence rate of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Thus, it is of utmost importance to reflect on lifestyles, especially in this period. The main purpose of the present study was to assess lifestyle in patients affected with myocardial infarction (MI).
Instruments & Methods: This study was a cross-sectional study examining health-related lifestyle behaviors in patients with MI in 2019. To this end, a total number of 176 patients were selected using purposive and convenience sampling methods. The research instrument was also the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP-II) as a standardized self-report questionnaire. The data analyzed using IBM SPSS 22 and the generalized linear models were used. Moreover, coefficient at a significance level less than 0.05.
Findings: The results of Wilks’ lambda distribution revealed that the effect of gender on the linear combination of the dependent variable (i.e. lifestyle) was significant and 11.4% of changes in this variable had resulted from variation in gender. Besides, the results demonstrated that health responsibility scores in men were on average 2.703 lower than those obtained by women. This relationship was also significant and its effect size was by 3.3% (p= 0.016).
Conclusions: It was concluded that the concept of lifestyle can be an analysis tool to better understand differences between genders, as an effective variable in adopting a healthy lifestyle, especially in patients suffering from MI.
Mahdi Falahati naghibi, Mahdi Gerdooei, Mohammad Bakhshi, Abdolhamid Gorji,
Volume 14, Issue 13 (First Special Issue 2015)
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In this paper, with the aim of providing a new test pattern for empirical prediction of FLD of 304 stainless steel tube, firstly numerical investigation of hydro-bulging process with various load paths and die geometries has been performed on strain path and plastic instability. Study on geometry of dies has been performed by varying die corner radius (R) and bulging length (W). Here, effect of axial feeding on strain ratio (β) has been studied. In this condition, by increasing of W, strain ratio (β) tends to value of zero that this situation is independent to boundary condition. By increasing of die corner (R) in free loading condition, reduction of β occurs and the strain path approaches to plane strain state; while in loading with axial feeding condition, increasing of R has neglect able effect on strain path and ratio. In loading with axial feeding condition, increase in axial feeding strain ratio (β) is reduced drastically. From the simulated tests, number of 10 tests with distributed loading path on strain diagram was selected for empirical study. Meshed tubes are loaded controllably until tearing and the FLCs have been drawn using strains which were obtained near tearing locations.
Volume 15, Issue 2 (summer 2015 2015)
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Nowadays, different methods are used to calculate the capital stock in Iran. For example, the Central Bank uses permanent inventory method (PIM) to calculate the capital stock, however the researchers have used the production function method or the method of the ratio of capital to production in different periods. The present study aims at estimating the capital stock in Iran’s economic sectors. By comparing the results of permanent inventory method (PIM) and production function method, it is observed that the estimations by production function method are more suitable due to the data limitations. The same method was applied for the U.S. regarding data limitations and estimations were compared with the U.S capital stock; and once again the production function method was selected. It is found that the depreciation rates in agriculture, industry and mining, building, services, oil and gas, and water and electricity are 5.8, 4.9, 7.8, 3.5, 6.3, and 4.1 per cent, respectively. In order to make the depreciation rate more reliable, these rates were compared with the similar researches in Iran and a close relationship was found among them
Seyyed Reza naghibi, Ali Akbar Pirmohamadi, ,
Volume 18, Issue 1 (3-2018)
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This paper considers the issue of precise control of robotic manipulators in the presence of dynamic uncertainties along with hard nonlinear perturbation such as friction using Modified Transpose Effective Jacobian and model based friction compensator. In order to model friction in robot joints, The LuGre friction model has been used and its unknown parameters have been identified by a bio-inspired optimization algorithm called Cuttlefish. By comparing Cuttlefish with other meta-heuristic algorithms such as Glowworm swarm optimization, its superiorities have been proved. After accurate identification of model parameters and determine frictions function, using Modified Transpose Effective Jacobian and model-based friction compensator, a two link planar manipulator has been controlled experimentally. Furthermore in order to compare the controller performance with other methods, the mentioned manipulator has been controlled using computed torque controller and transpose Jacobian besides Adaptive Neural Network Radial Based Function friction compensators. Experimental results offer the Modified Transpose effective Jacobian control method has privileges for better tracking control with more accuracy and better friction compensating as well as better robustness against dynamic uncertainties with lower computational efforts.
Volume 18, Issue 2 (summer 2018)
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The real effective exchange rate and its uncertainty are among the most important macroeconomic variables that affect different economic sectors from various aspects. Since the changes in exchange rate have no identical impacts on all sectors of the economy and regarding considerable importance of industrial development on economic development, this study examines and evaluates the effects of real effective of exchange rate and its uncertainty on the value-added of industrial subsectors based on the two-digit codes ISIC-REV4 using Panel data and Engel-Granger methods during 1979-2014. The results show that the real effective exchange rate is of different effects on various subsectors of the industry while its uncertainty has no effect on sub-sectors’ value-added. Consequently, there is no single exchange rate policy in industrial sector due to different foreign exchange requirements in its subsectors.
Volume 22, Issue 2 (Summer 2018)
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The Contract of Sale as one of the most exchanged contracts requires each parties to perform The Obligations against the other Party. According to the Vienna Convention, the Seller is required to perform the Obligations against the Buyer. The question is that whether Usage is effective in determining of The Obligations of the Seller based on the Convention on the International Sale of Goods? Parties to the contract are not required to predict and specify all details of the contract, It is sufficient to reach an agreement on the elements of the subject matter of the contract and Usage and Supplementary law determine other details and the effects of contract (specifying the rights and obligations of the parties about it). Article 220 and 225 of the Civil Code confirms this claim. Usage also have an important role based on the Vienna Convention 1980, because, in the Convention on the International Sale, in addition to being, the parties are bound by any usage to which they have agreed and by any practices which they have established between themselves, are considered, unless otherwise agreed, to have impliedly made applicable to their contract or its formation a usage of which the parties knew or ought to have known and which in international trade is widely known to, and regularly observed by, parties to contracts of the type involved in the particular trade concerned. In this Research will examine the effect of Usage and Practice in determining the Obligations of the Seller. By induction under the provisions of the Convention, we get the general result that, in the assumption of the absence of an agreement on the determination of sellers obligations, according to Article 9 of the Convention, Usage and Practice will undoubtedly determine the sellers obligations.Therefore, in the absence of an agreement between the parties on the commitment to certain Usages and the lack of Practice among them regarding the Sellers obligations, if the conditions of the Usages referred to in paragraph 2 of Article 9 of the Convention exist, the seller will be obliged to comply with it. Finally, in the absence of decisive rules, the Seller is bound to fulfill its obligations, In accordance with the Supplementary Provisions of the Convention. The same situation exists in the Iranian law.