Payesh2009; 8: 235-244Accepted for publication: 19 August 2007[EPub a head of print-11 Jul.2009] Objective(s): To calculate the costs of the radiology ward by step-down method in Amir Alam hospital, Tehran, Iran.Methods: By employing the Step-down cost accounting (SDCA) method, the current cost, overhead cost, capital cost and depreciation charge e
In this time in which we feel suspended between the fourth industrial revolution and a pandemic that frightens us, we need more than ever an ethic of trust, of positive passions, of moving between normativity Garden and fluidity without cynicism or indifference, each of us taking charge of change.This is the ethical task of education.The School mus
Pigs and poultry are by far the most omnivorous of the domesticated farm animals and it is in their nature to be highly explorative.In the barren production environments, this motivation to explore can be expressed as abnormal oral manipulation directed towards pen-mates.Tail biting in pigs and feather pecking Popcorn in laying hens are examples of
Abstract Background Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease for which prognosis and treatment strategies are largely governed by the receptor status (estrogen, progesterone and Her2) of the tumor cells.Gene expression profiling of whole breast tumors further stratifies breast cancer into several molecular subtypes which also co-segregate with the
One of the fundamental questions of cultural evolutionary research is how individual-level processes scale up to generate population-level patterns.Previous studies in music 7RB have revealed that frequency-based bias (e.g.conformity and novelty) drives large-scale cultural diversity in different ways across domains and levels of analysis.Music sam