ICT has been employed in various areas, including eParticipation to support citizen participation and achieve democracy ideal. Trust as a social behavior can be used as a method to model preferences and facilitate better participation and interaction in a decision making within a group of decision makers. In this paper we present literatures survey related to eParticipation and trust in compute...

recent advances in life-sustaining treatments and technologies, have given rise to newly-emerged, critical and sometimes, controversial questions regarding different aspects of end-of-life decision-making and care. since religious values are among the most influential factors in these decisions, the present study aimed to examine the islamic scholars' views on end-of-life care. a structured int...

aggregation operators (aos) have been studied by many schol- ars. as many aos are proposed, there is still lacking approach to classify the categories of ao, and to select the appropriate ao within the ao candidates. in this research, each ao can be regarded as a cognitive style or individual dierence. a cognitive style and aggregation operator (csao) model is pro- posed to analyze the mapping ...

the purpose of this paper is to identify and explain the factors affecting female’s psychological empowerment in the information and knowledge services. this paper is based on applied research and mixed method including descriptive and survey. first by using qualitative approach, for expanding and explaining effective factors of pycholigical empowerment of women librarians and informationist, n...

introduction: to run a hospital effectively, managers need to have proper decision-making strategies. the managers' decision-making strategies and the staff's job satisfaction are two major factors that allow the manager to achieve the planned objectives. therefore, in this paper, these two factors were studied. methods and materials: it was a descriptive study in which the population of the st...

various traditional and industrial coke making techniques were discussed based on their limitations and production capacities, and the criteria such as the quality and size of coke production, amount of coke crumb, amount of investment, amount of operational costs, labor force and mechanization. in this work, the rankings of various traditional and industrial coke making techniques were carried...

governance in health is cited as one of the key factors in balancing the concerns of the government and public sector with the interests of civil society/private players, but often remains poorly described and operationalized. richard saltman and antonio duran look at two aspects in the search for new provider models in a context of health markets signalling liberalisation: (i) the role of the ...

background and aims: cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of mortality among men and women so that the difference in acute myocardial infarction (ami) symptoms between men and women can affect diagnosis and time of decision making for treatment and consequently disease outcomes. therefore, knowledge of different symptoms affects the prognosis of the disease according to the gender. this s...