Hossein Fakhraei , Soheila Khalilzadeh 2 , Ghamartaj Khanbabaei , Susan Mahmoudi, Mohammad Reza Masjedi , Mahshid Mehdizadeh , Abbas Momenzadeh, Alireza Nateghian , Payam Tabarsi , Parviz Tabatabaei , Davoud Yadegarinia 9 1 National Immunization Committee of Ministry of health, Tehran, Iran, 2 Clinical TB and Epidemiology Research Center, Masih Daneshvari Hospital, NRITLD, Shahid Beheshti Unive...

BACKGROUND Academic medicine is in a state of dramatic transformation. For this reason strategic thinking is the most essential part of educational planning. The main purpose of the present study was developing the strategic educational planning of Ophthalmology in Iran from 2007 to 2010 METHODS A qualitative investigation using focus group discussion has been implemented successfully for dev...

this paper examines the causal relationship between stock prices and macroeconomic aggregates in iran, by applying the techniques of the long–run granger non–causality test proposed by toda and yamamoto (1995). we test the causal relationships between the tepix index and the three macroeconomic variables: money supply, value of trade balance, and industrial production using quarterly data for t...

the stock evaluation process plays an important role in portfolio selection because it is the prerequisite for investment and directly influences on the stock allocation. this paper presents a methodology based on data envelopment analysis for portfolio selection, decision making units which can be stocks or other financial assets. first, dmus efficiencies are computed based on input/output com...

National Drug Policy (NDP) constitutes the specification of mid-term and long-term pharmaceutical objectives by the government and the determination of major strategies warranted to achieve such objectives. Stated in other words, NDP determines the frameworks for the pharmaceutical activities of private and state sectors. The specification of these policies and strategies will be an effective m...