Developing a new index to assess varicella outbreak

Developing a DataBlade for a New Index

In order to better support current and new applications, the major DBMS vendors are stepping beyond uninterpreted binary large objects, termed BLOBs, and are beginning to offer extensibility features that allow external developers to extend the DBMS with, e.g., their own data types and accompanying access methods. Existing solutions include DB2 extenders, Informix DataBlades, and Oracle cartrid...

Developing and Validating a Questionnaire to Assess Critical Discourse Analysis Practices among EFL Teachers

The present study was an attempt to investigate to what extent Iranian EFL teachers practice critical discourse analysis in the English language classroom during their teaching. To reach this aim, a 27-item questionnaire was designed and administered among 120 male and female Iranian English teachers in different language schools in Tehran. Following descriptive statistics through which the mea...

A new outbreak of rinderpest in Iran

Developing a Questionnaire to Assess Safety Climate at Universities of Medical Sciences

Background & Aims of the Study: The implementation of safety principles in work environments can directly benefit both employees and the organization by reducing the mental and physical strain, reducing the risk of work-related injuries, and performance improvement. Thus, with the consideration and implementation of safety principles, and the creation of a positive safety climate, organizations...

A Modified Directional Distance Formulation of DEA with Malmquist Index to Assess Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy in the same amount of time and history is very rampant and therefore the vision of the future can be prevented. Using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and malmquist index can precise evaluating of the performances of many different kinds of decision making units (DMU) such as hospitals, universities, business firms, etc. In this paper, we will modify directional distance formulation o...