Agricultural cooperatives monitor the growing practices of their members through internal control systems, ensuring adherence to external certification requirements and quality standards. In this paper, we present the motivation, design and evaluation of an automated mobile data collection, evaluation and reporting tool for internal control at a coffee cooperative. Our goals were to improve the...

variation of the branches of the external carotid artery (eca) is well known, but it is extremely rare for the occipital artery (oa) to arise from the internal carotid artery (ica). a 87-year-old man was found to have this anatomical variation on the right side by threedimensional computed tomography angiography for vascular mapping of the carotid arteries before superselective intra-arterial c...

Today, urban transportation has attracted urban planners’ and researchers' attention because of air and noise pollution problems associated with it. In Shahrkord city in Iran, no plans have been made for sustainable transportation, and the available poor transportation infrastructure is not responsive to the growing population of the city. This issue has inflicted the city with serious problems...

background: iran is one of the countries that has ratified the world health organization framework convention of tobacco control (who-fctc), and has implemented a series of tobacco control interventions including the comprehensive tobacco control law. enforcement of this legislation and assessment of its outcome requires a dedicated evaluation system. this study aimed to develop a generic model...

The subject considered in the paper is a part of work in which the main gole is creation of the tool for evaluation of patient hip joint internal loadings especially before and after arthroplasty. Internal loadings evaluation in human motion structures is still a present task in biomechanics and biomechanical engineering. The forces of muscle actuators were considered before in the aspect of co...

In 1985 the Ministry of Higher Education and Science published a document entitled Higher Education: Autonomy and Quality [1]. According to this document, quality was the responsibility of the HEIs (higher education institutions) and they were therefore accountable for their internal evaluation. The external quality assessment was seen as a task for a newly created inspectorate for the universi...