during the recent decades, urban management in iran has increasingly confronted numerous challenges due to different kinds of social, cultural, political, executive, financial, and legal factors. the present study is going to specify and analyze the aforementioned challenges in the domain of the urban environment in order to determine how far they have been effective, how they have been priorit...

A sustainability technology evaluation platform has been prototyped for simulating integrated technology systems within a specific urban regional context. ‘‘Sustainability technologies’’ refer to available and potentially available technologies that may help to decrease human pressures on the environment or natural resources while providing a desired standard of living. The platform is based on...

background: short golden time is important to save the injured in earthquake and to start search and rescue (sar) operation as soon as possible in affected regions. this study evaluated application of geographic information system (gis) for sar operation in rigan town, kerman province, which was hit by an earthquake of 6.3 richter scale on december 12, 2010 at 22:12. materials and methods: a gi...

in recent decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the incidence of colorectal cancer in iran, especially in patients less than 50 years old. a national colorectal cancer screening program is the best solution for identifying patients in high risk populations. the research center of gastroenterology and liver disease of shahid beheshti university, m.c., in collaboration, with the ministry...

Remote sensing imagery has been widely used in urban growth and environment analysis with many effective and advanced strategies being developed. However, most of these approaches are separated from each other. There is an urgent need to combine different modules into some practical processing chains. Firstly, we present a comprehensive analysis of key processing chains in applying remote sensi...

Three-dimensional modelling of urban environments is increasingly in a very fast way, and there is a diversifying demand of services and applications closed to virtual reality. The large diversity of formats, tools and products poses the need of developing software tools for sharing and exchanging information from context recognition. We propose an approach for system architecture composed by t...

introduction: hospital information system (his) is a computerized system which is used as an electronic tool for patient information management and plays a significant role in providing quality health care services. therefore, his users' satisfaction about the quality of the services offered is crucial in assessing and more importantly improving the technical aspects of the system. on the other...

there are a lot of researches in the world about attacks on information systems (is). although there have been many attempts to classify threats of is’s especially in health information systems (his), it is still necessary for all health organization to identify new threats and their sources which threaten security of health care domain. the main aim of this paper is to present a research agend...