the paper seeks to identify starbuck's experience in using social media, understand how social media is linked to customer knowledge management, and assess how social media services could have contributed to starbucks success. starbucks demonstrates versatility to engage customers and support different part of customer knowledge management strategy through various social media platforms, such a...

background and objectives: regarding the high prevalence of unhealthy food habits among iranian children, we aimed to assess the effect of a school-based nutrition education program on nutritional status of primary school students in shiraz. materials and methods: this randomized educational controlled trial was carried out on 221 primary school age children selected by cluster sampling in the ...

introduction: direct and rapid access to information is one of the main necessities of the users in new technological world. nowadays, information users, particularly medical information in which rapid access is of necessity, do not have enough time to search and access to information. therefore, the present study aimed to determine strategies to access required information as soon as possible....

introduction: nowadays, knowledge management is one of the most effective factors in competitive advantages and success among organizations. therefore, this study aimed to assess the principles of knowledge management in teaching hospitals of iran university of medical sciences. methods: this applied descriptive cross-sectional study included 30 senior managers in ten teaching hospitals associa...

nutritional care is an important part of medical care of patients and plays a key role in improvement, prevention and control of malnutrition in hospitals. the current study aimed to determine the nutrition knowledge level of doctors, nurses and nutritionists in some teaching hospitals in tehran in 2008. in a cross-sectional study a total of 198 samples including 28 nutritionists, 81 nurses and...

the process of collection development, collection generating and obtaining information is of basic debates in libraries and information centers which a lot of articles have been written about the methods of collection development of information as well as the application of information technology, accordingly, to this day. this article, as opposed to other articles, which are about the prevaili...

Phenylketonuria (PKU) is caused by deficient activity of the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase, needed to convert the essential amino acid (AA) phenylalanine (phe) to tyrosine. In order to prevent neurological damage, lifelong adherence to a low-phe diet that is restricted in natural foods and requires ingestion of a phe-free AA formula to meet protein needs is required. The goal of nutritional ...

model building is one of the most important characteristics of human beings. according to a classification, there are three kinds of models. the first type are omdels which are unique to every individual person and every body has his own models. another kind of models are those which are general. theories arise from this kind of models. the third kind are modols for model building and deals wit...

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a common abdominal acute inflammatory disorder and the leading cause of hospital admission for gastrointestinal disorders in many countries. Clinical manifestations of AP vary from self-limiting local inflammation to devastating systemic pathological conditions causing significant morbidity and mortality. To date, despite extensive efforts in translating promising exp...