background: effective leadership is essential to passing through obstacles facing the health field. the current health care system in iran has major problems and gaps in the field of effective leadership. the aim of this study was to evaluate hospital managers’ leadership style through self-assessment and to determine the correlation between leadership styles with healthcare executives’ leaders...

The steady growth of e-learning around the world is inspiring many educational and business institutions to adopt the same. In order to benefit from e-learning, educational institutes should first conduct investigation to assess the learners' readiness. This paper analyses a small scale readiness evaluation case study for three groups of learners of a Saudi Arabian University. Statistical analy...

There exists a general belief among academics that most students nowadays have a firm understanding of the computer technology and its various applications. Hence, their readiness for using it as part of their educational process is not questionable. This paper examines this view in the context of the University of Cape Town, South Africa. The students' evaluation of a web-based course module p...

The paper identifies and discusses the need for techno-economic performance improvements at early stages of the wave energy converter (WEC) technology development process. Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) for wave energy projects provide a valuable metric of technology readiness and deliver useful guidance for the development process. This paper describes the complementary metric of Technolog...

background: medical journals are scientific resources where utilization of knowledge is availed and create an environment of competitiveness. to speed up the growth and increase scientific production and in order that the rank of iranian journals be defined regionally and globally, journal standardization is necessary. this study was done to evaluate the country's medi­cal journals from 2004-20...

abstract background: the readiness of mothers to take care for infants at discharge is a critical issue. poor readiness of mothers in taking care of premature infants at the time of discharge is associated with potential adverse consequences. this study examined the effect of implementing mothers’ empowerment program on the weight gain and duration of hospitalization in premature infants. mater...

This paper proposes parameters for developing a comprehensive globally accepted e-government maturity model. We investigate existing maturity models and their stages of growth, and identify various parameters based on the stages defined by Quirk’s model, and additionally incorporating parameters such as secrecy, privacy & personalization. The proposed parameters for eGovernment maturity models ...