BACKGROUND To determine whether healthcare resources are allocated fairly, it is helpful to have information on the quality of life (QoL) of patients with Unexplained Physical Symptoms (UPS) and on the costs associated with them, and on how these relate to corresponding data in other patient groups. As studies to date have been limited to specific patient populations with UPS, the objective of ...

Wireless Sensor Networks produce large scale of data in the form of streams. By using Association Rule Mining, the sensor data provides useful information for different applications. The main goal of this approach is to determine behavioral patterns which are generate rules to improve the WASN's quality of service, energy conservation, resource management. In this paper, we propose a mechanism ...

T hanks in large part to early metrics, most old-school researchers and practitioners view software quality as a static assessment of the code’s structure.Fortunately, a new generation is realizing that software quality is more than a static trait; it also comprises nonfunctional, or behavioral, attributes, such as reliability and maintainability. Even Microsoft’s Bill Gates seems to have recog...

Except for the influential graduates, the content of the development core of universities needs to improve the scientific allocation of teacher resources, and the most relevant content to human resource of teacher is the salary incentive system. While the system related to performance appraisal system is the performance assessment system, so the sound and perfect performance appraisal system of...

As organizations implement software reuse programs to improve productivity and software quality, they face the challenge of how best to encourage reuse. This study describes a behavioral model that attempts to explain the influence of a reuse consumer’s perception of the trustworthiness of the producer, the technical characteristics of the component, and the organizational reuse norms on a reus...

During behavioral model verification, it is important to determine the stopping point for the current test strategy and for moving to a different test strategy. It has been shown that the location of the stopping point is highly dependent on the statistical model one should choose to describe the coverage behavior during the verification process. This paper presents a study on the coverage beha...

By operational criteria, burnout appears to be a multifaceted behavioral syndrome consisting of maladaptive individual responses subsequent to prolonged stressful situations. Given the intense physical and cognitive demands of providing high quality healthcare to a wide spectrum of patients, healthcare professionals are particularly susceptible to developing burnout syndrome, a notable phenomen...

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the quality of life in a healthy population from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) using the “Quality of life Questionnaire” (QoLQ), which was developed in our cultural context and to examine its psychometric properties. A secondary goal is to explore the relationship between quality of life perception and healthy behavior profiles. Data were ob...

The purpose of this research is to provide a model for reporting quality of financial information based on behavioral and value accounting of listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange which is based on Structural Equation Modeling. This research in terms of applied purpose is applied research and in terms of data collection method is post-semi experimental research in the field of proofing acco...