BACKGROUND The importance of studying associations between socio-economic position and health has often been highlighted. Previous studies have linked the prevalence and severity of lung disease with national wealth and with socio-economic position within some countries but there has been no systematic evaluation of the association between lung function and poverty at the individual level on a ...

this paper studies the technical efficiency of 12 branches of saman bank over the period 1387-88, relating it to the composition of staff by sex, the ratio of fixed assets to total assets, the age of the branches and the geographic ranking in development indicators of the city where the branch is located in. data envelopment analysis is used to determine the efficiency of branches. the average ...

Increasing integration services can improve opportunistic development by presenting monolith applications as opportunities for mashups. O pportunities are available resources that yield desired results. Their suitability depends on who seizes the opportunity and the context for its use. Opportunistic development relies on the availability of reusable software components to produce hybrid applic...