There are various possibilities for the design of urban stormwater systems, using best management practices. Castro and Baptista (2004) have proposed a set of performance indicators, based social, environmental, sanitary and hydrologic aspects. During the validation process, a critical analysis of the indicators was done. The aim of this paper is to present the results of this analysis which is...

Regarding to rapidly changing and highly competitive business environment it will become increasingly important for organizations to measure their performances appropriately. With respect to special characteristics of pharmaceutical industry and lack of reported performance measurement, this study tries to design an integrated performance measurement model for pharmaceutical companies. For gene...

Previous studies of public transport sustainability in cities have been very limited to date, particularly in more developing countries located throughout Asia and the Middle East. This paper assesses the sustainability of urban public transport systems in cities by adopting a quantitative measurement framework containing 15 public transport sustainability indicators. It compares aggregate sust...

Construction projects are one of the most important economic sectors in the world. At the same time, these projects are one of the hazardous industries that cause many accidents resulting from injuries and deaths, occupational diseases, delay in time, environmental problems and other direct and indirect damages. While in many industries, the issue of health, safety and environment is meticulous...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a preferred technique for assessing the environmental impact of products considering all environmental aspects over the full product life cycle. However, a number of drawbacks limit a continual and pro-active application of LCA in the design process. Indicators have been proposed as an alternative approach to LCA. This paper provides a brief survey of indicator ap...

background: access to family physicians plays an important role in individuals' health and health indicators. this study aimed to determine the effect of family physicians lodge on performance indicators of rural family physicians working in health centers of jiroft and kerman universities of medical sciences. methods: in this cross - sectional study conducted in 2013, 26 lodge physicians (as t...

background: person-organization fit is an effective factor for recruiting, selection, and retention of human resources in organizations. objective: this study examined the correlation between person-organization fit and performance indicators used in healthcare in the hospitals affiliated with qazvin university of medical sciences (qums). methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was cond...