There are several well-established surveys on e-government. These surveys employ different assessment models for e-readiness, digital divide and other relevant factors, leading to varying conclusions on the global state of e-government. This paper presents a comparative study of 11 international surveys on egovernment between 2001 and 2004. It identifies a common set of ‘core indicators’ for as...

OBJECTIVES This study compared outcomes between day hospital pain rehabilitation patients and patients engaged in outpatient multidisciplinary pain treatment. METHODS This study included 100 children who presented for an initial tertiary care pain clinic evaluation. 50 patients enrolled in intensive day hospital pain rehabilitation and 50 patients pursued outpatient multidisciplinary treatmen...

during the recent decades, rapid urbanization growth has led to even faster growth of motorvehicles and especially in large cities. hence, evaluation of the actual level of traffic emissions has gained more interest. this paper, for the first time, presents a bottom-up approach for evaluation of vehicular emissions in tehran- the capital of iran- using the international vehicle emission (ive) m...

e-Readiness assessments, for countries and organizations, are becoming of increasing importance, as they specify the current states from which planning for ICT “information and communication technology” toward supporting sustainable development, should start. This paper is concerned with providing an approach, based on the STOPE “strategy, technology, organization, people, and environment” fram...

routing in ad-hoc networks, specifically intelligent-based ones, is a highly interested research topic in recent years. most of them are simulation-based study. large percentages have not even mentioned some of the fundamental parameters. this strictly reduces their validity and reliability. on the other hand, there is not a comprehensive framework to classify routing algorithms in wireless sen...