normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: since, accurate, appropriate, precise, timely, valid information, and valid interpretation of information is required and the basis for policy and decision making and planning in various levels of the organization management, this study was conducted to evaluate the district health information system evolutio...

The increasing popularity of the Internet has led to the development of Web applications, known as Web GIS. A geographic information system (called GIS from now) is a software system that manages geo-referenced information. GIS systems are an automated system used for storing, analysing and manipulating geographical information. Geographical information represents objects and actions where geog...

The idea of the creative individualist spawning innovations as a solitude effort is no longer realistic. Huge innovation projects, relying on project teams, have to be permanently conducted by organizations to assure their competitiveness. These projects often take place in distributed teams, making use of groupware to bridge temporal and geographical distances. Research in social psychology on...

Geographical information exists in multiple forms such as cartographical maps, images, and texts. Effective retrieval systems for geographical information are currently studied by both geospatial information scientists and library/information scientists. The two groups take quite different approaches which have rarely been explicitly compared and connected. This paper discusses the advantages a...

Geographical space is an important factor across a wide range of decision-making problems, not only because many human and environmental processes vary markedly from one place to another, but also because space determines people's perception of the world and ultimately determines what we call 'local' and ‘global’. The ability of individuals and social groups to map out, in a true geographic sen...

Population counts and longitude and latitude coordinates were estimated for the 50 largest cities in the United States by computational linguistic techniques and by human participants. The mathematical technique Latent Semantic Analysis applied to newspaper texts produced similarity ratings between the 50 cities that allowed for a multidimensional scaling (MDS) of these cities. MDS coordinates ...

backgrounds and aims: using geographical information system (gis) can decreases the burden of road traffic injuries effectively by identification of hot spot to modification in hazardous areas. the aim of the study was determining geographical distribution of human risk factors associated with road traffic injuries by using geographical information system (gis) in iran. materials and methods: t...

introduction: nowadays, the widespread distribution of hospital information systems (his) in healthcare institutions requires professional evaluation to assess the practical usefulness of these applications. nursing staff are the largest group of staff in a hospital and play an important role in the adoption and evaluation of hiss. methods: this was a descriptive, analytic, cross-sectional stud...

introduction: oral diseases are the most prevalent diseases probable at any age. they are chronic in nature and expensive to care.  accurate, comprehensive, well-structured, well-managed data is required to control and prevent oral diseases, clinical audit, quality of patient care, and administrative, financial, research and legal goals fulfillment we need. in dentistry, data collection would p...