Climate change and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are arguably the greatest global challenges of the 21st Century. However, the confluence between them remains under-examined and there is little evidence of a comprehensive, systematic approach to identifying research priorities to mitigate their joint impact. Consequently, we: (i) convened a workshop of academics (n = 25) from the Worldwide U...

Product Development Process (PDP) has been recognized as a source of competitive pro ̄ts, and thus, it has received increasing attention. The existing methods for monitoring PDP performance, however, are either cumbersome or fail to connect the competitive priorities to the performance management process. Accordingly, in this paper, a model to evaluate PDP performance is considered as a multi-cr...

Grocery shopping can be a difficult task where the users are overwhelmed by the number of products available. It can be daunting to efficiently locate products and make decisions among dozens of brands to meet personal priorities (e.g, budget or nutritional value). To date, existing interactive systems supporting the grocery shopping experience do not help shoppers make informed decisions based...

A joint CDA-Institutes of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis study was undertaken to evaluate the dental research priorities of Canadian dentists. A self-complete questionnaire was sent to all dentists in Canada with the December 2001 JCDA. This last article in a 3-part series presents the results on funding priorities. By April 1, 2002, 2,788 questionnaires, representing a response rate of a...

Scenarios are effective conceptual tools for requirements elicitation, analysis, and evaluation. However, choosing salient scenarios is one of the major problems of scenario-based web design. On one hand, due to the partiality of scenarios, it is often difficult to envision up-front all the scenarios necessary to cover every interaction capability to be designed for the site. On the other hand,...

Body sensor networks (BSNs) carry heterogeneous traffic types having diverse QoS requirements, such as delay, reliability and throughput. In this paper, we design a priority-based traffic load adaptivemedium access control (MAC) protocol for BSNs, namely, PLA-MAC, which addresses the aforementioned requirements and maintains efficiency in power consumption. In PLA-MAC, we classify sensed data p...

background: education is the most important task of a university and the mission of faculty members and improving of its quality lead to improve education quality. evaluation of teacher is one of the processes that are carried out to this quality improving. this study was conducted to compares the priorities of evaluation items from view of teachers and students of lorestan university of medica...

background and aim: academic evaluation is one of the strategies applied for the enhancement of teaching conditions. student-based evaluation is one of the most common kinds of evaluation. the current study is aimed at the identification of important criteria of academic evaluation from the viewpoint of medical school students.   materials and methods: this is a descriptive, cross-sectional stu...

background: setting research priorities is an important process in management of health researches. if this process is carried out based on the goals and values ​​of the health system, the actual needs will be properly met. this study is aimed to determine research priorities of kerman medical sciences university.   methods: in this documentary study, content analysis method was used. the study...

Background Priority setting in healthcare is a key determinant of health system performance. However, there is no widely accepted priority setting evaluation framework. We reviewed literature with the aim of developing and proposing a framework for the evaluation of macro and meso level healthcare priority setting practices.   Methods We systematically searched Econlit, PubMed, CINAHL, and EBSC...