background: health assessment in patients  with epilepsy (pwe) should  include  both  clinical outcomes and  health related quality of life (hrqol) measures. the quality of life (qol) in epilepsy-31 inventory  (qolie-31) is widely used for qol studies  in epilepsy. this study  aims to evaluate psychometrics  of the persian version of the inventory (qolie-31-p). methods:  following a  standard  ...

Background: In recent decades many guidelines has been conducted by radiation protection organizations about radiation protection in dentistry. This study aimed to evaluate the observance of these guidelines in educational clinics of all dental schools in Iran. Material and Methods: In this cross-sectional study a self-administered questionnaire, based on National Radiation Protection ...

The need for determining and maintaining quality in the process of designing, developing and delivering online courses is becoming an important issue for universities and institutions worldwide. Teaching online may be a different process to conventional teaching, involving possible changes to pedagogy and teaching practice such as learner-centered education and collaborative learning. According...

Objective: In recent years, various treatment programs have been implemented in Iran aimed at rehabilitation and improvement of drug-dependent patients but so far, few studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of different treatment programs in terms of different outcomes. This study was conducted to determine the differences among patients participating in three therapeutic programs, ou...

improving youth development and well-being requires improving the everyday settings where development occurs. In this volume, we asked scholars who study three different settings—classrooms, youth programs, and mentoring dyads—to reflect on what constitutes quality in their setting and how to think about measuring it. We urged these authors to focus specifically on quality " at the point of ser...

investigation of nursing intervention and rehabilitation   programs on life quality of hospitalized patients   with stroke     p. amini [1] , h. khalilzadeh [2] , m. hemmat [3] i, m. kohankari [4] , a. mirmohammadi [5] , a. hagshenas [6]   abstract:   introduction: cerebro vascular accident (stroke) is the primary neurologic problem in the world. it is the third ranking cause of death. stroke c...

Modelling and implementing distributed systems leads often to the same problems. By ignoring partial failures, dynamic changes in bandwiths, security issues etc. object-orientation provides a very well suited abstraction. But when actually dealing with the aspects arising from the distribution, former clear designs loose their elegance. Little or none support is provided by current implementati...