Partnerships between natural-area managers and the tourism industry have been suggested to contribute to sustainability in protected areas. This article explores how important sustainability outcomes of partnerships are to their members, how well they are realised and the features of partnerships leading to their achievement. In 21 case studies in Australia, interviews (n = 97) and surveys (n =...

Aims of the Study: This study was carried out to determine the effective factors in environmental health status of grocery stores in the city of Qom (located in the center of Iran). Materials & Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 283 grocery stores from 3 different regions were selected randomly using stratified sampling. Data were gathered through ...

Dynamically adaptive systems (DAS) must cope with changing system and environmental conditions that may not have been fully understood or anticipated during development time. RELAX is a fuzzy logic-based specification language for making DAS requirements more tolerable to unanticipated environmental conditions. This paper presents AutoRELAX, an approach that generates RELAXed goal models that a...

A dynamically adaptive system (DAS) monitors itself and its execution environment to assess requirements satisfaction at run time. Unanticipated environmental conditions may cause sensory inputs that alter the self-assessment capabilities of a DAS in unpredictable and undesirable ways. Moreover, it is impossible for a human to know and/or enumerate all possible combinations of system and enviro...

decreasing qualitative aspects of residential environments is a real problem in recent public housing of kerman. this article is concentrated on surveying the impact of in-between spaces on residential environments quality (req), to evaluate different kinds of it and to determine interrelation of two main components: residents individual characteristics and characteristics of in-between spaces....

the present research is classified as an applied one employing a descriptive survey design to describe the status quo of the factors affecting customers’ satisfaction with the e-service centers of iran’s police, known as 10 + police centers. the research population involves all the costumers of the 10+ police centers, among which 420 individuals were chosen through simple random sampling techni...

background: job satisfaction remains as an important concern for both employer and employee. the leaving of work­place and migration to city centers is one of the main results of job dissatisfaction among the primary health care (phc) provid­ers in rural setting of iran, behvarzes. determining the predictor's factors of the phc providers' job dissatisfac­tion and provid­ing appropriate strategi...

Introduction: There has been increasing attention on the evaluation of the efficiency and delivery of healthcare while trying to maintain the quality of service patients expect. A variety of studies have looked at various, non-orthopaedic surgical outpatient clinics and the factors involved in patient satisfaction and wait-time. The purpose of this study was to identify if such a relationship e...