Spatial decision-making problems, such as site selection, require appropriate means for handling multiple socioeconomic factors while considering physical suitability. Traditional decision support techniques lack the ability to simultaneously take into account these factors and conditions. Similarly, geographic information systems, while recognized as useful decision support technologies, do no...

The County of Khorram-Abad enjoys a high potential for ecotourism because of its mountains, forests, natural mineral springs, natural waterfalls and diversity in folks and cultures. But, un-planned and uncontrolled ecotourism can have negative effects on environment, economy, culture and even the security of eco-tourists. The main purpose of this study is to present a fuzzy multi-criteria decis...

Landfill selection in an urban area is a critical issue in the urban planning process because of its enormous impact on the economy, ecology and the environmental health of the region. With the growth of urbanization as well as the desire to live in cities, lager amount of wastes are produced and unfortunately the problem gets bigger everyday. With the development of Geographic Information Syst...

Background Rural health houses constitute a major provider of some primary health services in the villages of Iran. Given the challenges of providing health services in rural areas, health houses should be established based on the criteria of health network systems (HNSs). The value of these criteria and their precedence over others have not yet been thoroughly investigated. The present study w...

Natural disasters play a main role in human life. It should be taken into consideration that it is impossible to predict these from happening, but preparation for good response can solution decrease post-damage casualties the cities. Herein, Disaster Management Bases terms of prevention, and dealing with crisis key role, especially Tehran times natural disasters. There no doubt high level effic...

BACKGROUND Milestone-based assessments of resident physicians inform critical decisions regarding resident competence and advancement. Thus, it is essential that milestone evaluations are based upon strong validity evidence and that consistent evaluation criteria are used across residency programs. A common approach to assessment of interprofessional collaboration milestones is particularly imp...