many organizations use information technology (it) to improve their performance in the business and operations. but, most of the it projects suffer from a high risk of failure when implemented. recently, many studies have been attended on the concept of critical success factors (csfs) in order to affect the rate of success, but a little effort has been focused on developing strong models to fac...

protecting the environment is becoming one of the most important concerns of the developed and developing countries. reclamation of msw landfills, which are sources of many pollutants including leachate and greenhouse gases, would be very valuable in saving the resources and reducing the pollution scale. in the current article the potential for use of reclaimed waste in rdf production has been ...

There have been significant advances in postharvest research over the last few decades that have led to the development of a diversity of appropriate technologies in many countries including several developing countries. This has greatly improved the handling and quality of food crops, and contributed significantly to improving nutrition and national development. Improvements have been made in ...

globalisation has given birth to medical tourism. health and medical tourism are the fastest growing seg­ments in not only developed nations but in developing countries too. india has become a hot des­tina­tion, as the indian medical standards match up to the highly prescribed international standards at a very low cost. however, it is an unmixed blessing; along with advantages, it has many unin...

many projects on developing electronic health record (ehr) systems have been carried out in many countries. the current study was conducted to review the published data on the utilization of open source ehr systems in different countries all over the world. using free text and keyword search techniques, six bibliographic databases were searched for related articles. the identified papers were s...

In recent times, antiepileptic drug (AED) development has expanded with at least seven new AEDs being marketed in a variety of countries. However, in this same period there have been very few trials of new AEDs in the developing world where the majority of people with epilepsy reside. There are many problems with the extrapolation of results from AED trials in developed countries, thus underlin...

after the second world war one of the most effective ways which could make an important impact on the life of minorities and deprived communities has been positive discrimination. of course, it has been always controversial in terms of its legitimacy as well as its real impact on changes. using positive discrimination to promote women's condition in many countries and fields such as enteri...