abstract background: this study aimed to explore the role of social capital within the context of the nursing profession in iran, based on the experience and perspectives of senior nursing managers. materials and methods: the study was conducted using the graneheim and lundman content analysis method. using purposive sampling, 26 senior nursing managers from the ministry of health and medical e...

Introduction: The increasing number of global health initiatives have contributed to improving access to health services and building knowledge platforms. However, the distribution of activities and knowledge produced has been uneven. To scope the scientific output in global health, publications from 2008-2017 were reviewed to identify major players, assess the extent of involv...

networking and entering into official and unofficial networks is the main way for individuals to get promoted in organizations. so entering into academic networks at universities has become a challenge for people who would like to promote their academic position. in iran despite a notable increase in the women’s presence in universities, their entrance into academic networks and promoting their...

Background: As social networks are increasingly used, the research published through social networks should be evaluated. Hence, new measures were employed to examine the scientific effectiveness of social networks. The measurements taken from social networks, called Altmetrics, provide an opportunity to evaluate research. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the presence of indexed artic...

In a recent paper by Azaiez and Bier [Optimal resource allocation for security in reliability systems, European Journal of Operational Research, 181, (2007), 773786], the problem of determining resource allocation in series-parallel systems (SPSs) is considered. The results for this problem are based on the results for the leastexpected cost failure-state diagnosis problem. In this note, it is ...

Due to the growing concern of chronic diseases and other health problems related to diet, there is a need to develop accurate methods to estimate an individual’s food and energy intake. Measuring accurate dietary intake is an open research problem. In particular, accurate food portion estimation is challenging since the process of food preparation and consumption impose large variations on food...