the purpose of this study is to identify challenges of digital resources in academic libraries of kerman province. research methodology is descriptive- survey, a questionnaire is used for gathering data. research sample includes 41 librarians of kerman libraries and their managers. results show that economic challenges, in order, are:  infrastructures and equipment purchasing, printed and digit...

The increasing cost of energy and the worldwide desire to reduce CO2 emissions has raised concern about the energy efficiency of information and communication technology. Whilst research has focused on data centres recently, this paper identifies office environments as significant consumers of energy. Office environments offer a great potential of energy savings, given that office hosts often r...

The advent of 3D printers has been embraced globally within few years of its emergence. The surge in the acceptability of rapid manufacturing RM technology can be attributed to the depletion and cost of natural resources, waste reduction and sustainability criterion of manufactured parts. This rapidly evolving 3D printing technologies is predicted to grow exponentially especially for the manufa...

to evaluate antioxidant effects of tomato pomace in broiler diets contained full-fat linseed on the production index, energy and protein efficiency, 396 one-day old ross 308 broilers were randomly allocated to 36 cages for nine dietary treatments with four replicate. this experiment were carried out in a completely randomized design with 3*3 factorial arrangement with three levels of full-fat l...

aim and background: appropriate and comprehensive response to problems and needs of mental health services requires to employ participatory approaches. therefore, this literature review study aimed to assess interprofessional collaboration as one of the beneficial methods of delivering mental health services. methods and materials: in this review study, data was collected by searching electroni...

background improving efficiency of health sector is of particular importance in all countries. to reach this end, it is paramount to measure the efficiency. on the other hand, there are many factors that affect the efficiency of health systems. this study aimed to measure the technical efficiency (te) of health systems in economic cooperation organization (eco) countries during 2004–10 and to d...

Abstract: Energy intensity is a measure of the energy efficiency of a nation’s economy. Many factors influence a country’s energy intensity. In this paper, however, we note the effective factors of energy intensity and decompose it by applying Logistic Smooth Transition Regression (LSTR) in Iran during the period 1980- 2013. The main factors are the ratio of the added value of se...