Introduction: Iran, as one of the earthquake-prone countries in the world, due to its geographical scope and existing shortcomings, always faces serious challenges in providing medical services to the victims by medical universities. This study aimed to achieve a model of community-based readiness of Iranian universities of medical sciences to provide health services to earthquake victims. Met...

Background & Objectives: Knowledge-based economy is one of the major parts of the resistance economy and is recognized as the essentials of the information technology age. As one of the most important educational units and the custodian of community health, universities of medical sciences play a pivotal role in the success of resistance economy based on the knowledge-based economy. Among the e...

We consider block-based interview coding techniques for multiview video sequences that are robust to illumination variations across views. We consider both global illumination differences which could be due to lack of camera calibration or heterogeneity, as well as local ilumination changes caused by lack of camera aligment. We propose a two-parameter model for illumination compensation (IC) th...

The digital library field is recently broadening its scope of applicability and it is also continuously adapting to the frequent changes occurring in the internet society. Accordingly, digital libraries are slightly moving from a controlled environment accessible only to professionals and domain-experts, to environments accessible to casual users that want to exploit the potentialities offered ...

Background: Clinical decision support (CDS) functionalities in Computerized Provider Order Entry system (CPOE) need to be identified by the institutional healthcare providers developing countries. In this regard, CDS should a priority for execution CPOE. Objectives: Thus, our study was done identify and prioritize Methods: A Two-round Modified Delphi process used. Firstly, systematic search con...

Traditional information retrieval (IR) systems are developed based on the “best match” principle which assumes that users can specify their needs in a query and documents retrieved are relevant to users. However, this objective measure of relevance is limited as it does not consider differences in experts’ and novices’ knowledge and context. This paper presents initial work towards addressing t...