‘Moments and opportunities’

Islam; Challenges and Opportunities

Undoubtedly Islamic Revolution of Iran has been the source of Islamic awakening in the middle-east. Therefore Islamic Republic of Iran plays the role of an example and a director of political developments in the region. Islamic awakening in Arab countries has been able to question the dominant discourse of dictators in the middle-east region and topple their regimes. These developments include ...

Mobile Social Big Data: WeChat Moments Dataset, Network Applications, and Opportunities

In parallel to the increase of various mobile technologies, the mobile social network (MSN) service has brought us into an era of mobile social big data, where people are creating new social data every second and everywhere. It is of vital importance for businesses, government, and institutes to understand how peoples’ behaviors in the online cyberspace can affect the underlying computer networ...

CVaR Reduced Fuzzy Variables and Their Second Order Moments

Based on credibilistic value-at-risk (CVaR) of regularfuzzy variable, we introduce a new CVaR reduction method fortype-2 fuzzy variables. The reduced fuzzy variables arecharacterized by parametric possibility distributions. We establishsome useful analytical expressions for mean values and secondorder moments of common reduced fuzzy variables. The convex properties of second order moments with ...

Health Tourism: Opportunities, Constraints, Obstacles and Solutions

Seize the moments: missed opportunities to immunize at the family practice level.

BACKGROUND Missed immunization opportunities (MOs) are a significant barrier to achieving high immunization coverage. OBJECTIVE To describe the nature of MOs to immunize within primary care in New Zealand and their effect on immunization completeness. METHODS Audit of medical records of approximately 10 randomly selected children <2 years old from each of 62 primary care practices in Auckla...