Background: Literature abounds with various techniques for efficiency measurement of health care organizations (HCOs), which should be used cautiously and appropriately. The present study aimed at discovering the rules regulating the interplay among the number of inputs, outputs, and decision- making units (DMUs) and identifying all methods used for the measurement of Iranian HCOs and criticall...

: Non-accidental injury (NAI), animal abuse and "battered pet" syndrome are terms used to identify "the intentional harm of an animal". The terms include, but are not limited to, wilful neglect, inflicting injury, pain or distress, or malicious killing of an animal. Three categories of abuse are recognised: physical, sexual and neglect.A postal survey was conducted to determine the extent to wh...

The reasons for the poor performance of conventional, per-pixel classification algorithms applied to satellite sensor images of urban areas are examined. It is argued that standard algorithms are poorly adapted to distinguish between different urban land-use categories, particularly in high spatial resolution images, due to the complex spatial pattern of spectrally distinct land-cover types in ...

INTRODUCTION Obesity is an increasing problem in South Asian countries and Sri Lanka is no exception. The socioeconomic determinants of obesity in Sri Lanka, and in neighbouring countries are inadequately described. Aim was to describe social, cultural and economic determinants of obesity in a representative sample from Kalutara District in Sri Lanka. METHODS This was a cross sectional descri...

As the world largest video content sharing website, YouTube constantly attracts more and more attention from networking research community. Different aspects of YouTube, such as video characteristics, user behaviors, and its back-end infrastructure have been well studied. Most of these studies consider YouTube as a whole without taking the YouTube category into the consideration. However, it is...

Background: There have been considerable changes in childbearing decision-making in Iran over the last 30 years. These changes have affected the understanding and predicting of fertility behavior changes by reproductive health policy makers and program planners. This study was conducted to explore the motivators of reproduction and fertility in couples of reproductive age. Materials and Methods...