background: human beings use different approaches to learning. thus the aim of this study is to explore the mechanisms of learning through the hidden curriculum in the perspective of baccalaureate undergraduate nursing students. methods: this qualitative study, involving 24 baccalaureate undergraduate nursing students, was done by purposeful sampling strategies. the data were collected using se...

Website design practice has evolved a lot. Websites are no longer designed from scratch but based on existing designs and patterns, and very often they are implemented using Web Content Management Systems (WCMS). Given all this support, it seems that the traditional web design methods, developed in the past, are no longer relevant. However, we argue that they still have a role to play, but they...

introduction: the application of organizational ethics in hospitals is one of the novel ways to improve medical ethics. nowadays achieving efficient and sufficient ethical hospital indicators seems to be inevitable. in this connection, the present study aims to determine the best indicators in hospital accreditation. methods: 69 indicators in 11 fields to evaluate hospital ethics were achieved ...

public hospitals can privatize management activities by contracting with a private organization or person to perform the work. management contract is a method which uses private sector for major government projects like hospitals. this review study evaluated management contract conditions in selected countries. we focused on services under contract, different forms of management contract, metho...

Background: It is difficult to provide health care services to all those in need of such services due to limited resources and unlimited demands. Thus, priority setting and rationing have to be applied. This study aimed at critically examining the concept of rationing in health sector and identifying its purposes, influencing factors, mechanisms, and outcomes. Methods: The critical interpretive...

OF THE THESIS A Decentralized Content-based Communication Framework for Supporting Decoupled Grid Interactions by ANDRES QUIROZ HERNANDEZ Thesis Director: Professor Manish Parashar This work presents a decentralized and content-based communication framework based on Web Services Notification (WSN) to enable monitoring and loosely-coupled interactions in distributed and particularly Grid systems...

this research investigates factors of enterprise portals of governmental organizations of iran. methods used in this research are literature and descriptive survey. data was gathered by a researcher-made checklist for enterprise portal factors in the enterprise portals of governmental organizations of iran. the checklist contains six factors that are content management, document management, col...