the aim of this study is to assess the status of strategic thinking among directors of private sport clubs in shiraz city based on goldman model. the methodology used here is descriptive-analytic and data are collected through literature studies and survey. the target population of the study included all private sport clubs offering more than three types of sports (90 clubs) and the sampling me...

BACKGROUND To construct a short prostate cancer radiation late toxicity (PCRT) questionnaire with health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) domains. METHODS The PCRT was developed by item generation, questionnaire construction (n = 7 experts, n = 8 focus group patients), pilot testing (n = 37), item reduction (n = 100), reliability testing (n = 237), and validity testing (n = 274). RESULTS Rel...

Background and Aim: Human resources are one of the most important assets of any organization and the creation of a safe working environment enhances the quality of services in addition to satisfying this valuable capital. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety of diagnostic laboratories of hospitals affiliated to Iran University of Medical Sciences(IUMS). Materials and Methods: T...

OBJECTIVE To develop quality metrics for detailed clinical models (DCMs) and test their validity. METHODS Based on existing quality criteria which did not include formal metrics, we developed quality metrics by applying the ISO/IEC 9126 software quality evaluation model. The face and content validity of the initial quality metrics were assessed by 9 international experts. Content validity was...

The purpose of this study is to provide a model of happiness for primary school students in Tehran. The present study in terms of fundamental purpose, in terms of data is an exploratory mix (qualitative-quantitative) in terms of nature and type of study in the qualitative dimension of the data is the type of emergence and in the quantitative dimension is a cross-sectional survey. The statist...

Traditional methods of developing tests have been driven by item content specification and have relied on the use of summed ordinal scores in an attempt to create a quantitative index of ability. There are fundamental problems with this approach to test development. The first problem is that the summing of qualitative ordinal counts to create a total score does not result in a number that is a ...

Human resource studies seeks to investigate the factors affecting training and the impact of these trainings on the development of human learning in organizations, and in this field, it uses different methods. The complexity of the educational environment and others, the different dimensions of human resources training and the different conditions and influencing factors based on blended learni...