Estimated Profit: A Look at the Excess Revenues of Private Four-Year Nonprofit Postsecondary Institutions

The effects of HMO ownership on hospital costs and revenues: is there a difference between for-profit and nonprofit plans?

We conducted multivariate analyses to examine whether high health maintenance organization (HMO) penetration and large share of for-profit health plans in a market reduced hospital cost and revenue growth rates between 1989 and 1998. We found that hospitals in high HMO areas experienced revenue and cost growth rates that were 21 and 18 percentage points, respectively, below hospitals in low HMO...

Assessing the Quality Change of Some Parameters of Karun River Water at a Four -Year Interval

Surface water resources, especially rivers, are at risk more than other sources for the reason of many uses. This study aims to examine some quality parameters of Karun river water in the Gotovand spatial range to Ahwaz during the years of 2010-2013.The data investigated in this study were obtained from the annual mean biochemical parameters measurements at nine sampling stations at the Water A...

A Look at the Challenges of Boundary-Spanner Academic Leaders

The present study was an exploratory sequential mixed method approach, so the qualitative section of the study was done by descriptive phenomenology method. The participants in the qualitative section included academic administrators with managerial experience who by criterion sampling and saturation in the research findings, 12 were selected for the interview. Research tools in the section wer...

A Look at the Myths and Half-truths about Profit and Non-profit Hospital Performance

A look at signification of ‘then’ in the Holy Quran

‘Then’ as one of conjunctions, has many usages in Arabic language. Since one of its usages is in the religious texts and the Holy Quran so that its different usages effect on the style, meaning, and concepts, and also, due to the sensitivity and significance of the Holy Quran, understanding the exact meaning of this conjunction, i.e. ‘then’, and studying its various stat...