Department of Health Education; Department of Epidemiology, School of Health, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to F. Rakhshani: [email protected]). 2Department of Health Education, Tarbiat Moddares University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. ABSTRACT A qualitative study in Zahedan, Islamic Republic of Iran, used focus group discussio...

this paper argues for a broader emphasis on sustainable security and smart power, for examining both opportunities as well as threats to security. sustainable security is a new concept in the security studies. deep attention to all possible threats against human life is necessary for continuation of security in a sustainable and dynamic base. this aim can be achieved in a highest level by mergi...

Abstract Economic dispatch (ED) of thermal power units is significant for optimal generation operation efficiency systems. It a typical nonconvex and nonlinear optimization problem with many local extrema when considering the valve-point effects, especially large-scale Considering that differential evolution (DE) efficient in locating global region, while gain-sharing knowledge-based algorithm ...

Background Many of public hospitals in Japan have had a deficit for a long time. Japanese local governments have been encouraging public hospitals to use group purchasing of drugs to benefit from the economies of scale, and increase their bargaining power for obtaining discounts in drug purchasing, thus improving their financial situation. In this study, we empirically investigate whether or no...

taking into consideration the fact that convergence of the kurds and shiites on the national security and interests of the islamic republic of iran is a vital necessity, the exact knowledge of nature and category of such a coalition might assist the state security policymaking so that by a better understanding of such a strategy and by comprehension of sensitivity of this opportunity, the polic...