Despite rapid growth in resources devoted to physical activity promotion, the public health capacity to address physical inactivity is insufficient. Too few public health practitioners have the necessary skills to implement and evaluate evidence-based physical activity interventions, and schools of public health typically do not have adequate course content in physical activity. This commentary...

This paper, developed by consensus of staff physicians of accredited asthma units for the management of severe asthma, presents information on the process and requirements for already-existing asthma units to achieve official accreditation by the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR). Three levels of specialized asthma care have been established based on available resources...

Adaptability is mostly defined as the ease with which a system may be adapted to the changing context. The questions which form the guidelines for our research activities are among others: What is being adapted? How can the adaptation take place? What are the restrictions or the constraints? Who is responsible for the adaptability? We made an attempt to provide answers to these questions in thi...

| December 2015 | 1218 In spite of an emphasis on high quality and quantity of Iranian publications in this article,[2] it should be noted that the complete cycle of science is not summarized in the first chain (science-production). Indeed, the production of technology and the achievement of economic development should be put in the context of scientific and research activities. Scientific prog...

The Doctoral Program in Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering (DRIG) provides students with advanced education and the opportunity to do research activity in these scientific fields. The program allows students to build a solid methodological background, and it fosters the development of multi-disciplinary knowledge, an open minded approach to research activities, and the ability to ...

In this paper, we introduce a new measure for evaluating and characterizing the scientific output of a researcher over time. The PACIFIFA is a measure that takes different attributes into account in the process of evaluating the productivity, quality of research, and research activity of a researcher. This measure takes into account the number of the publications of the author, the sum of the c...

In disaster scenarios, emergency operators/first responders need to collaborate in order to reach a common goal. The use of mobile devices and applications in these scenarios is very valuable as they can improve collaboration, coordination, and communication amongst team members. But there are also risks involved while using these mobile applications, e.g., decreasing of performance. Most of th...

tioned above will suffer from cancer regardless of attempts to prevent the onset of cancer. Early detection and intervention prior to the irreversible fatal stage is the only option available to these patients. Thus, a sophisticated understanding of the role of chance ushers clinicians to the efficient diagnosis and treatment. Accurate interpretation of P-value estimated from statistical test o...