Abstract: Research in examining the equity of service accessibility has emerged as economic and social equity advocates recognized that where people live influences their opportunities for economic development, access to quality healthcare, and political participation. In this research paper, service accessibility equity is concerned with where and when services have been and are accessed by di...

Background: Nursing collaboration is important in enhanced health care quality. Previous studies have identified agreeableness and supervisor negative mood as two predictors for subordinate collaboration. However, in nursing contexts, exactly how these factors influence nursing intention to help colleagues remains unknown, as well as how their interactive influences. Objectives: Thus this study...

State-of-the-art pansharpening methods generally inject the spatial structures of a high spatial resolution (HR) panchromatic (PAN) image into the corresponding low spatial resolution (LR) multispectral (MS) image by an injection model. In this paper, a novel pansharpening method with an edge-preserving guided filter based on three-layer decomposition is proposed. In the proposed method, the PA...

Due to the fact that in the new century customers tend to express globally increasing demands, networks of interconnected businesses have been established in societies and the management of such networks seems to be a major key through gaining competitive advantages. Supply chain management encompasses such managerial activities. Within a supply chain, a critical role is played by quality. QFD ...

the aim of this study is to determine the effect of the income smoothing on the future earnings response coefficient taking into account the effect of the information environment. future earnings response coefficient is used as a measure for evaluation of stock price information content which represents the relationship between current stock returns and future earnings. information environment ...

Background: Determining quality requirements and quality dimensions is one of the most reliable ways of providing high quality services. The objective of the present study was to investigate the association between quality requirements and quality dimensions according to the points of view of physicians, nurses, and patients. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was carried out in h...

Currently, online and offline channel integration as a successful business model is used in many industries, this paper aims at providing an insight into the factors affecting online channel (online shop) and offline channels (entity shop) in the agricultural product industry. Drawn from the extant literature, a consumer online and offline behavior model including trust, system quality, informa...

Random coe cient regression models have been applied in di erent elds and they constitute a unifying setup for many statistical problems. The nonparametric study of this model started with Beran and Hall (1992) and it has become a fruitful framework. In this paper we propose and study statistics for testing a basic hypothesis concerning this model: the constancy of coe cients. The asymptotic be...

OBJECTIVE To determine the extent to which the Injury Severity Score (ISS) and Trauma Mortality Probability Model (T-MPM), a new trauma injury score based on empirical injury severity estimates, agree on hospital quality. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS Retrospective cohort study based on 66,214 patients in 68 hospitals. Four risk-adjustment models based on either ISS or T-MPM were constructed,...

social capital and quality of life are one of the most important growing concepts in society. social capital is productive as any other capital and it is considered as a suitable ground to take advantage of economic and cultural capitals as well as a way for the success of a society. this study aimed at evaluating the effect of social capital on the quality of life of azadshahr's citizens....