Background: Health Management Information System (HMIS) is one of the six building blocks a health system designed to provide important data for continuous quality improvement at all levels care administration. It major source information monitoring and adjusting policy implementation resources use. Some studies have been conducted in collection ways improve quality, but little known about util...

Undoubtedly, Dr. Ahmed Zewail, who passed away on August 2, 2016, had a strong, positive impact on science in the Middle East and in the West. I knew Zewail as one of his mentors and close friends. Zewail wanted to come from Egypt (Alexandria University) to get his PhD in my group at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Unfortunately, I was away on sabbatical and thus did not see h...

In this 20th issue of the International Journal of Information Technology and the Systems Approach (IJITSA), we report four high-quality research papers. The third and fourth papers were accepted as part of the special issue on “Computing Challenges on IoT and Pervasive Systems”, co-edited by Luiz A. Steffenel, at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France, and Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, a...

a comparative analysis of sociological situation and cinematic representation in iranian movies from the 80s: a case study of deep breathmaryam sadat naghibi esfahani, hasan ali pourmand, mahdi keshavarz afsharma student, tarbiat modares university, tehran, [email protected] professor, tarbiat modares university, tehran, [email protected] professor, tarbiat modar...

the effect of parents empowerment program on their beliefs about parental role, behaviors and characteristics of their premature infants in nicu    khajeh m [1] *, karimi r [2] , sadat hosseini as [3]     received: 14 apr , 2013 accepted: 20 jun , 2013  abstract  background & aims : about 10 percents of infants are born prematurely and their hospitalization is avoidable in many cases. this even...

ahmoud Moawad (Figure 1) is the head of the Section of General Internal Medicine at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is a recognized leader who established the first committee to study and disseminate information on evidence-based medicine in the hospital, as well as a consultant for complicated medical cases, an administrator, and a dedicated ...

Microsatellite-based DNA fingerprinting has been increasingly applied to cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) genotype identification. However, the accuracy and reliability of using high throughput microsatellite analysis for cacao clone identification have not yet been rigorously assessed. Despite the use of highly robust fingerprinting protocols, cacao genotype identification has been affected by genot...

Statistical models for the joint statistics of image pixels are of central importance in many image processing applications. However the high dimensionality stemming from large problem size and the long-range spatial interactions make statistical image modeling particularly challenging. Commonly this modeling is simplified by a change of basis, mostly using a wavelet transform. Indeed, the wave...