objective: to translate verona service satisfaction scale-32 (vsss-32) to persian, to adapt it for iranian culture and to investigate the performance characteristics of the persian version intended to measure patient satisfaction with psychiatric care. method: the vsss-32 was translated to persian using an elaborated methodology according to world health organization guideline. in addition, und...

this study was conducted to determine timeliness costs in using machinery and their effects on farmers’ revenues. in addition, optimum cropping pattern was compared with the existing one assuming removal of timeliness cost. for the purpose of the study, mixed integer and linear programming methods were used. the study was conduced in marvdasht region in southern iran. the data were collected th...

The Parametric (Automated) testing is considered as potential replacement for most of the concrete (manual) testing. Software Understandability is one of the major factors that influence the use of concrete and parametric test cases. It affects the duration (time) and the correctness ratio of software testing process. It is harder to measure understandability as it depends on various factors li...

Variability in software process models justifies tailoring them to meet the specific goals and characteristics of organizations and projects. At the present time, processes are modeled using different notations which typically do not have constructs which are appropriate for expressing process variability. To fill this gap, we have extended SPEM to vSPEM, by adding new variability constructs (s...

we aimed to evaluate the timeliness of reporting of malaria surveillance system and understanding the existing problems.the timeliness of malaria surveillance system of iran was evaluated in four provinces of iran including sistan & baluchistan, hormozgan, kerman (as provinces with local malaria transmission) and khuzestan (without local malaria transmission). in this descriptive-analytic cross...

this paper aims to investigate the effect of firm reporting quality, timeliness andquantity for disclosure and reliability of financial reports on the reaction of stockprice delay. statistical population includes 111 active firms in tehran stock exchangeduring 2010-2014 using cochrane method with the confidence level of95%. totally, they were 555 firms-years. in this paper, linear and nonlinear...