BACKGROUND The practice environment pivotal role in patients and nurses better outcomes is evident. Practice Environment Scale of Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI) is widely utilized to assess nursing work environments. The present study was conducted to demonstrate the validity and reliability of the Persian version of PES-NWI. MATERIALS AND METHODS The instrument was translated and its psychomet...

BACKGROUND Since there is no disease-specific instrument for measuring quality-of-life (QOL) in Ostomy patients in Persian language. AIM This study was designed to translate and evaluate the validity and reliability of City of Hope-quality of life-Ostomy questionnaire (COH-QOL-Ostomy questionnaire). SUBJECTS AND METHODS This study was designed as cross-sectional study. Reliability of the su...

CPU scheduling is one of the most crucial operations performed by operating systems. Different conventional algorithms like FCFS, SJF, Priority, and RR (Round Robin) are available for CPU Scheduling. The effectiveness of Priority and Round Robin scheduling algorithm completely depends on selection of priority features of processes and on the choice of time quantum. In this paper a new CPU sched...

“preventing an evil takes priority over securing an interest” and preferring the prohibition side is among discussions raised by usuli scholars and has been accepted as particular affirmative proposition; the said priority is known among islamic jurisprudents as “ preventing an evil takes priority over securing a benefit” in whose … is the contrast of evil and benefit. four interpretations of t...

Introduction Sweetpotato breeders strive to develop varieties that address productivity challenges farmers face in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, adoption of these is low, partly attributed limited attention attributes desired by the end-users. Methods This study sought identify key traits preferred eight women processors and 426 consumers (180 male, 246 female) Manhiça, Marracuene Maputo d...

This paper evaluates four mechanisms for providing service differentiation in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, the Point Coordinator Function (PCF) of IEEE 802.11, the Enhanced Distributed Coordinator Function (EDCF) of the proposed IEEE 802.11e extension to IEEE 802.11, Distributed Fair Scheduling (DFS), and Blackburst using the ns-2 simulator. The metrics used in the evaluation are throughput, medi...