As visitors to national parks diff er in terms of their profi les and needs, an empirical evaluation of the quality of their experiences, if based on a homogeneous sample, may lead to false conclusions and, hence, inappropriate management decisions. Using Paklenica National Park as a case study, this paper aims to provide a more heterogeneous perspective on the defi nition of the quality of vis...

Gap filling and noise reduction of unevenly sampled data by means of the Lomb-Scargle periodogram K. Hocke and N. Kämpfer Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland Received: 25 January 2008 – Accepted: 4 February 2008 – Published: 4 March 2008 Correspondence to: K. Hocke ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geoscience...

To highlight the growth of e-government and the importance of its services it is essential to evaluate the performance of the service delivery to customers. Research indicates that traditional performance indexes are not suitable for this evaluation; moreover, it is noticeable that the e-government services are intangible and invisible. Among different e-government services, measurement of qual...

We argue that the field of Health Policy and Management (HPAM) ought to confront the gap between theory, policy, and practice. Although there are perennial efforts to reform healthcare systems, the conceptual barriers are considerable and reflect the theory-policy-practice gap. We highlight four dimensions of the gap: 1) the dominance of microeconomic thinking in health policy analysis and desi...

Background: This study aimed to explore service quality in Iranian hospitals by a systematic review and meta-analysis of the existing literature.    Methods: The literature search in the international (PubMed, Scopus, and the ISI) and Iranian (SID, Iranmedex, and Magiran) scientific databases was conducted to identify studies (published in English and Persian) used the service qualit...

in this work facile sol-gel (pechni) method has been successfully established to synthesize zn4b6o13 nanocrystals which have cubic crystals with lattice parameter: a =7.48 a. the structure and morphology of the obtained material were studied by x-ray diffraction (xrd), infrared spectra (ir), scanning electron microscopy (sem) and photoluminescence analysis. the experimental results show a band ...

This research studies the generation gap among the students at Andimeshk Islamic Azad University. More than 305 people were chosen by Cochran Formula in the study. The dependent variable was divided to four dimensions social, cultural, political and economic. The obtained mean of the study shows there is a meaningful difference between students and their parents (fathers and mothers). It also s...