Introduction: Hospital information system (HIS) is a comprehensive software for integrating patient information for sending and exchanging health information between wards and other medical centers in order to accelerate the process of patient care and treatment, improve quality, and increase patient satisfaction. The advent of diverse and heterogeneous health care information systems in the fi...

A rising demand for housing has persuaded governments to provide more housing units, significantly for the less privileged classes of the society, and several methods have been tried. Mehr Housing Program is the latest effort in the recent years for mass housing production in Iran. The immense impacts of implementation of this program has had wide spread effects on the cities of the country. St...

The present paper is extracted from a purposeful research aiming at pondering on the recondite meaning of persistence in Iranian architecture during Islamic era and comparing it to the concept of sustainability and contemporary sustainable architecture. It seems that the literature is poor in terms of causes and factors of persistence in Iranian architecture. The limited literature in this area...