In recent years, propensity score matching (PSM) has gained attention as a potential method for estimating the impact of public policy programs in the absence of experimental evaluations. In this study, we evaluate the usefulness of PSM for estimating the impact of a program change in an educational context (Tennessee’s Student Teacher Achievement Ratio Project [Project STAR]). Because Tennesse...

This paper proposes the application of Model Driven Architecture (MDA) for distributed services Run-time Infrastructure to achieve reusing simulation services and communicating in heterogeneous network environments. Platform-Independent Model (PIM) is built based on simulation services definition in service-oriented distributed Runtime Infrastructure by interface definition language Slice to de...

BACKGROUND Addressing the shortage of health service providers (doctors and nurses) in rural health centres remains a huge challenge. The lack of motivation of health service providers to serve in rural areas is one of the major reasons for such shortage. While many studies have aimed at analysing the reasons for low motivation, hardly any studies in India have focused on developing valid and r...

The Role of Organizational Coaching in Public Service Motivation with the Mediating Positive Behavior (Case Study: Staff Mashhad University Medical Sciences)

PURPOSE We compared location of positive cores in biopsy and location of positive surgical margin (PSM) following radical prostatectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective analysis included patients who were diagnosed as prostate cancer by standard 12-core transrectal ultrasonography guided prostate biopsy, and who have PSM after radical prostatectomy. After exclusion of number of biops...

Models transformation is the main key of MDA. The first transformation in MDA is CIM to PIM transformation, the second is PIM to PSM transformation. Most searches deal the transformation from PIM level to PSM level, since there are multiple common points between these two levels. However, the transformation from CIM level to PIM level is rarely addressed in search subjects because they are two ...