assessing the quality of groundwater is important to ensure the sustainablesafe use of these resources. however, describing the overall water quality condition isdifficult due to the spatial variability of multiple contaminants and the wide range ofindicators (chemical, physical and biological) that could be measured. therefore, in thiscase study, some water quality parameters including na, mg,...

the purpose followed in this study was to identify the restraining factors affecting date grower organizations, development in khuzestan province. the statistical population consisted of two independent groups including 584 members of date grower organizations and 30 experts from the related governmental agencies. a sample of 120 farmers from date growers' group was chosen through stratifi...

CONTEXT Each year tens of thousands of patients in the United States are treated with UV-B radiation or psoralen plus UV-A radiation (PUVA) for a variety of skin disorders. Although PUVA is generally considered more effective, it is also more toxic and more expensive. The degree of consensus among experts in prescribing these alternative treatments has not been quantified. OBJECTIVES To quant...

the patients’ rights status is one of the essential elements in defining norms related to the concept of clinical governance system. in addition, the patients’ rights status is an important index for quality of care offered in the health care system. however, the lack of a coherent instrument makes it difficult to evaluate patients’ rights status in hospitals and clinics. the aim of this study ...

The present study investigates the culture of development in Hawrami proverbs. Analysis of development-related variables is the basis of sociology. As collective phenomena, proverbs are part of the oral culture of a society and their investigation can sociologically explain cultural and social foundations of the society. This research attempts to specify 6 development-related parameters in Hawr...

one of the main solutions to commercialize intellectual assets of universities and research centers is developing spin off companies. the main objective of this article is identification and prioritization of the challenges which these firms confront with to become successful. to address the objective, we used exploratory mixed method. after investigating the related literature, we made eleven ...

background: disasters have adverse impacts on different aspects of human life. psychosocial rehabilitation is one of the fields which is usually overshadowed and ignored by physical rehabilitation or its importance does not receive proper attention. this research attempts to study some lessons learned from psychosocial rehabilitation based on disaster experiences in iran. materials and methods:...

despite of fifteen years old legislation of environmental impact assessment (eia) in iran, investigations show that there are some kinds of shortcoming in the effectiveness and efficiency of these assessments. although some of these failures were attributed by weakness in the administrative structure, but methodological shortcomings and lack of transparency had an effective role in the these pr...

Fit testing of tight-fitting respiratory protective facepieces has been in use for some years, but there are still widespread misconceptions and misunderstandings about what a fit test pass actually signifies. Various aspects frequently generate research papers, and there are three relevant ones in this issue (Han and Lee, 2005; Kuo et al., 2005; Vaughan and RajanSithamparanadarajah, 2005). In ...