conclusions due to the correlation between strategic thinking and productivity, we recommend educating and training managers in the use of strategic thinking, and that they understand its importance to productivity. managers should understand that increasing efficiency in a competitive environment today is a necessity for survival. background using different methods of strategic thinking is ess...

background: one of the main goals of nursing education is training them to provide proper medical services to patients as well as healthy people in the community and health centers using their knowledge and specific skills. this service requires nurses’ critical thinking and effective learning. the purpose of this study was to determine the impact of critical thinking skills on decision making ...

This paper describes a comprehensive biomathematical cancer modeling facility, and its use in meeting the challenges of developing better cancer treatment strategies by exploiting the cancer biology knowledge explosion thoroughly. Using information about the biology of cancer cells in the treatment of patients requires synthesizing this information to draw conclusions about the whole tumor/pati...

Myriad frameworks have been developed for knowledge management. However, the field has been slow in formulating a generally accepted, comprehensive framework for knowledge management. This paper reviews the existing knowledge management frameworks and provides suggestions for what a general framework should include. The distinguishing feature of this research is that it emphasizes placing knowl...

chief tools to be used in understanding national health problems, and in devising answers to the problems, they are not useful alone. They need to be complemented by appreciation of the social, moral, and political influences on health thinking that are themselves as important to public health as increasing incidences of chronic diseases and costs of care. By merely gathering their earlier indi...

the purpose of this article is analysis of supportive theoretical documents of islamic republic of iran’s curriculum based on the concept of thinking. this aim is accomplished by using analytic method. regarding thinking as an action in islamic theory of action, we have analyzed three kinds of written educational philosophies. in this theory, it is supposed that actualization of thinking is dep...

objective: the current research is to investigate the relation between deterministic thinking and mental health among drug abusers, in which the role of  cognitive distortions is considered and clarified by focusing on deterministic thinking. methods: the present study is descriptive and correlative. all individuals with experience of drug abuse who had been referred to the shafagh rehabilitati...

The object of this study is the development of therapeutic projects by the team working in a Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS III). It takes into consideration the creation and expansion process of the Brazilian public health system (SUS) and Psychiatric Reform. In this context, workers are challenged to develop care through an individual therapeutic project that considers the true needs and life...

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This paper aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to thermodynamics designed specifically for the needs of the systems biologist. It departs from modern treatments in paying attention to the macroscopic aspects of the subjects rather than focusing purely on the statistical character of the facts. It also makes a real effort to communicate certain lesser known aspects of the subject that h...