background: in countries like iran in that most of the population consists of young people, designing and implementing comprehensive health programs targeted at young people must become a priority in national programs. more than half of high school students in isfahan are female. because of their more vulnerability, and their role in health of future generations, it is essential for health comm...

Two-thirds of all personal computers and almost all networks and databases are used for business, not recreation. Plausibly, therefore, most decisions that information technology supposedly improves are those made in an organizational context. They result, one way or another, from interactions among people and their machines. As such, the quality of the decisions an organization makes is increa...

1. In international development, capacity is seen as “the ability of people, organizations and society as a whole to manage their affairs successfully”, leading to attainment of the Millennium Development Goals and FAO’s three Global Goals in line with national development plans. Capacity Development (CD) is the “process whereby people, organizations and society as a whole unleash, strengthen, ...

Organizations aiming to foster civic engagement, such as government bodies, news outlets, political parties, and NGOs, struggle to purposefully use social media to engage young people. To respond to this challenge we conducted five group-interviews with 27 youth, 16–26 years, about their experiences of and barriers to civic engagement in social media. Our paper contributes to identifying specif...

Technology evolves together with humans. Across industrial revolutions, its role has evolved from that of a simple tool used by humans to intelligent decision-maker and teammate. In the post-digital era where ongoing advances in artificial intelligence are widely visible, question arises regarding extent which technology will be “upgraded” into roles previously filled human supervisors, thereby...

Effectively leading people engaged in the practice of public health has never been more critical than in the early years of the twenty-first century. Likewise, effectively managing the organizations in which these individuals practice the various professional disciplines of public health has become increasing important and difficult. Taken together, leading the people and managing public health...

Mechanical systems have structural organizations-parts, and their relations-and functional organizations-temporal, dynamic, and causal processes-which can be explained using text or diagrams. Two experiments illustrate the role of arrows in diagrams of mechanical systems. In Experiment 1, people described diagrams with or without arrows, interpreting diagrams without arrows as conveying structu...