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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAn Assessment of Farmers Willingness to Pay for Wheat Consultant Engineers Project: In IranAli Asadi, Morteza Akbari, Hossain Shabanali Fami, Amir AlambaigiProblem statement: Public extension performance in many developing countries including Iran is not up to the expectation of farming community. Further, in recent years, many governments are very reluctant to shoulder huge financial investment for public extension. Hence, extension specialists and policy makers propose privatization of extension services in developing countries. Approach: Considering existing agricultural extension scenario, a study designed … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2008 · 7,405 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPerformance Analysis of Data Mining Tools Cumulating with a Proposed Data Mining MiddlewareL. E. Hen, S. P. LeeData mining has becoming increasingly popular in helping to reveal important knowledge from the organization's databases and has led to the emergence of a variety of data mining tools to help in decision making. Present study described a test bed to investigate five major data mining tools, namely IBM intelligent miner, SPSS Clementine, SAS enterprise miner, oracle data miner and … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 10 · 31 Oct 2008 · 6,600 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Comparative Study of Iranian Consumers' Versus Extension Experts' Attitudes towards Agricultural Organic Products (AOP)Morteza Akbari, Ali AsadiThe main purpose of this study was to asses the attitudes of consumers and extension experts towards Agricultural Organic Products (AOP) in Iran. The statistical population included all of the consumers and extension experts (1000). A sample of 416 consumers and 289 extension experts were selected by the use of proportional random sampling methods. Questionnaires were used to collect data. … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2008 · 7,850 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEvaluation Of Growth Indices In Children With Recurrent Pharyngotonsilitis Due To Adenotonsilar Hypertrophy: A Case Control StudyKeramat MozafariniaChildren in 2 to 9 years old is sensitive to growth. Chronic infectious diseases may affect on child growth and recurrent pharyngotonsilitis due to adenotonsilar hypertrophy is main disease in children and may cause failure to thrive (FTT). The aim pf this study was to investigate relation between growth rate and adenotonsillar hypertrophy in Iranian subample children. We selected 76 … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 4, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2008 · 6,910 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractInvestigating Factors Affecting Environmental Behavior of Urban Residents: A Case Study in Tehran City- IranKhalil Kalantari, Hossein Shabanali Fami, Ali Asadi, H. Movahed MohammadiEnvironmental problems such as air and water pollution, urban garbage and climate changes in urban areas are the results of human behavior. Only change in human behavior can reduce these environmental problems. Thus studying attitude and behavior of people is a precondition to change this situation. So the main objective of this study was to find out individual and social … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2007 · 7,928 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Effect of Zinc and "Health Belief Model" Based Education on Common Cold Prevention in SoldiersArash Pooya, Ahmad Mahmoudian, Mohamad Mahdi Hazavei et al.The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of "Zinc" and "Health Belief model" based education on viral upper respiratory tract infections in soldiers in Isfahan - 2004 - 2005. It was a double - blinded randomized controlled trial, which was done among a group of soldiers by census. Soldiers were randomly divided into four groups. On the … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 2, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2006 · 6,347 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractProduction of a New Model for Evaluation of Iran Ecological Capabilities in Order to Establish Services and Civil Development ApplicationJ. Nouri, S. A. JoziThis study is aimed to design a new model for service and civil development application in order to be used in evaluation of Iran ecological capability studies. For this purpose in the first step, the frequency of sustainable and unsustainable ecological factors in Iran was known. In the next step, the Delphi method was used which is itself a branch … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 1, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2004 · 6,513 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMalignant Mucosal Melanoma of the Head and Neck Diagnosed in an Iranian Population over an 11-Year PeriodMaryam Assadat Hashemi Pour, M. Rad, M. R. Zarei, G. ChamaniProblem statement: Mucosal Melanoma of the Head and Neck (MMHN) is a rare lethal disease. This malignancy accounts for half of all mucosal melanomas, occurring mainly in the nasal cavity, oral cavity and pharynx. They appear with equal gender distribution and with a peak incidence in the age range 60-80 years. The aim of this study was to investigate incidence, … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 8 · 31 Aug 2009 · 7,076 accessesView PDF Cite