in the commercial banking activities, efficiency is an important issue for the bank managers, monitoring part and clients. this study has appraised the efficiency performance of the commercial banks in iran. the research method has been using windows data envelopment analysis with constant and variable returns to scale and input oriented model at the period of 1991-2006. the sample of study was...

hospitals as the centers that consume the most resource of health system, based on their function have difference performance and efficiency. the purpose of this study was to assess the efficiency of ahvaz hospitals using data envelopment analysis (dea) method. this study is a descriptive-analytic study that assessed the efficiency of teaching and nonteaching hospitals in ahvaz using dea in 200...

from ancient times, governments have laid emphasis – albeit with varying degrees – on large-scale plans and their impact on society and have thus resorted to them. the iranian government is of course no exception; both before and after the 1979 revolution, the different administrations of the country maintained that employing large-scale plans was fruitful and applied them accordingly. although...

objective: bone marrow transplantation is considered one of the main procedures used in the treatment of both malignant and non-malignant diseases. psychological factors after bone marrow transplantation have an important role in the survival of the patients undergoing this procedure. method: in the present study, some parameters including depression, anxiety and cognition were assessed during ...

abstract background: labor is a physiologic process, and consideration of labor pain and relieving that is among the major components of maternal care. application of some labor position can lay the fetus better in pelvic canal direction. the present study aimed to investigate the effect of laying the mother in three labor positions on the pain severity in the second, third, and fourth stages o...

in this paper, it is assumed that the “decision making units“( ) are consist of positive and negative input and output. firstly, the optimistic and pessimistic models have been suggested by using negative data and then units with most productive scale size are measured in optimistic and pessimistic models. these productive values are compared with double frontiers and hurwicz’s criterion to obt...

diagnosing and assessing child abuse is a critical and difficult process in clinical psychology, because this phenomenon has several negative behavioral and psychological consequences on victims. the aim of this research is to create a scale for assessing child abuse and neglect. through a multiclustral sampling, 3042 secondary school students (boys and girls) were selected to fill (1) a list o...