Background and Objectives: Patient safety (PS) is one of the most important and essential elements of quality in healthcare setting. A systematic review and meta-analysis was performed to assess the status of patient safety culture using the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC). Methods: In this systematic review and meta-analysis study, data were collected through searching dat...

  Purpose: Bipolar disorders of complex and multi-dimensional nature necessitate new therapies.   This research compared the effect of meta-cognitive and psycho-educational family therapy on   dysfunctional attitudes of bipolar patients.   Materials and Methods: This was a semi-empirical research with pretest-posttest design, using   control group. From among the bipolar woman who had referred ...

vehicular ad-hoc network (vanet) is an important component of intelligent transportation systems, in which vehicles are equipped with on-board computing and communication devices which enable vehicle-to-vehicle communication. consequently, with regard to larger communication due to the greater number of vehicles, stability of connectivity would be a challenging problem. clustering technique as ...

a new meta-heuristic method, based on neuronal communication (nc), is introduced in this article. the neuronal communication illustrates how data is exchanged between neurons in neural system. actually, this pattern works efficiently in the nature. the present paper shows it is the same to find the global minimum. in addition, since few numbers of neurons participate in each step of the method,...

This document discusses some of the security problems and practical problems with the current Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) authentication for Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) messages. Status of This Memo This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Fo...

background: recipients of healthcare services have rights, which must be acknowledged and protected. such rights include observance of acceptable patient physical, mental, spiritual, and social needs guided by commonly accepted rules and regulations. the objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of awareness rates and observance of patient rights in iran from ...