purpose: present study is to evaluate the effect of the urinary stone continuing medical education program of gps' knowledge, attitude and performance in real situation. material & method: 80 gps, 19 female and 61 male, 43.2+/-12.5 years old, 14.5 +/-11.9 years after graduation, who work in private practice in tehran, participated in the study. they participated in two-day conference run by lec...

the science parks have important role in development of technology and are able to make economic growth of the countries. the purpose of this paper is the presentation of a fuzzy expert system (fis) as intelligent systems to evaluate the science and technology parks. one of the problems for evaluating science and technology parks is to have the high number of criteria and science parks which ah...

introduction: hospital information system (his) plays an important role in enhancing the quality of remedy in hospitals. his is considered as an information system that may have great influence on the effectiveness and efficiency of hospital management. evaluation system is one of the most important issues that is greatly emphasized in the management system. this paper evaluate his based on ahi...

abstract the assessment of ripeness is a major part of quality evaluation and depends on several factors such as soluble solid content (ssc), acidity and firmness. most of the methods that measure these qualities are destructive. so it is essential to develop an efficient and nondestructive method for measuring internal attributes of fruit. the objective of this study was to investigate visible...

in recent years, formal methods have been used as an important tool for performance evaluation and verification of a wide range of systems. in the view points of engineers and practitioners, however, there are still some major difficulties in using formal methods. in this paper, we introduce a new formal modeling language to fill the gaps between object-oriented programming languages (oopls) us...

training is considered an important element in the organization, as it heavily influences people to learn how to be more effective at work by modifying knowledge, skills or attitudes through the learning experience to achieve a successful performance. likewise, training is a long term allegiance to all employees because they have to learn new skills and knowledge which become a turning point fo...

Decisionmakers are often presented with explicit likelihood assessments (e.g., there is a 10% chance that an attack will occur over the next three months) and supporting narrative evidence in forecasting and risk communication domains. Decisionmakers are thought to rely on both numerical and narrative information to the extent that they perceive the information to be diagnostic, accurate, and t...