background: today’s healthcare organizations are challenged by pressures to meet growing population demands and enhance community health through improving service quality. quality function deployment is one of the widely-used customer- driven approaches for health services development. in the current study, quality function deployment is used to improve the quality of chemotherapy unit services...

The proliferation of smartphones exploits many new opportunities for mobile advertising. Many researchers believe that mobile advertising will be not only a killer application in mobile commerce, but also a noteworthy business model for many emerging mobile applications to monetize. Location based advertising (LBA) is a new advertising that integrates mobile advertising with location based serv...

Public health nurses in Ireland are charged with conducting a home visit to every postnatal mother within 48 hours of hospital discharge. This represents the beginning of a long-term relationship, not only with the mother and newborn child but also with the family. This article fundamentally demonstrates the essential work of the public health nurse in promoting the health of the baby within a ...

Ehrenwörtliche Versicherung Diese Dissertation wurde selbständig, ohne unerlaubte Hilfe erarbeitet. III Für meine Frau, meine Tochter, und meine ganze Familie. This thesis founds on the following manuscripts, which are referred to as Moik et al. 2011a or b, respectively. (2011). Loss of migfilin expression has no overt consequences on murine development and homeostasis, J Cell Sci124, 414-21. R...

AbstrAct: A data element specifies one of the characteristics of its parent element. Therefore, the context of a data element is determined by its parent. Non context driven search engines build relationships between data nodes based solely on their labels and proximity to one another while overlooking their contexts. Therefore, they may return faulty answers. This paper investigates the pitfal...

Achieving the organizational objectives needs employees’ behavior and their collaboration with management. Strategic behavior-driven is depend on different factors. The aim of this article is to determine the impact of factors on strategic behavior-driven. A conceptual model was developed and tested on a survey in Social Insurance Company of Tehran which employees’ participated. Data collected ...

The current methods of the development and implementation of a Data Warehouse (DW) don’t consider the integration with the business-processes (organizational-processes and theirs respective data). In addition to these current methods, based on demand-driven, data-driven and goal-driven, we will introduce in this paper a new approach to DW development and implementation. This new approach will b...

Field surveys often show that high water turbidity limits cover of aquatic vegetation, while many small-scale experiments show that vegetation can reduce turbidity by decreasing water flow, stabilizing sediments, and competing with phytoplankton for nutrients. Here we bridged these two views by exploring the direction and strength of causal relationships between aquatic vegetation and turbidity...

We consider a strategic online social network that controls information flows between agents in a social learning setting. Agents on the network select among products of competing firms of unknown quality. The network sells advertising to firms. We consider display advertising, which is standard firm-to-consumer advertising, and social advertising, in which agents who purchased that firm’s prod...