introduction quality of urban life is known as one of the major elements of urban development. thus, evaluation urban environmental quality has much importance in the planning of urban development. cities are complex ecosystems affected by social, economic, environmental, and cultural factors. inefficient urban planning and management and lack of coherent environmental policies have led to many...

Introduction: hospitals performance indicators will help monitoring, evaluation and decision making and therefore must be selected and ranked accurately. The aim of present study is identifying and selecting key hospitals performance indicators. Materials and methods: This is a descriptive and mixed (quantitative-qualitative) study. literature review and expert panel has been done to identif...

Performance measurement and analysis is crucial for steering the organization to realizing its strategic and operational goals. Relevant performance indicators and their relationships to goals and activities need to be determined and analyzed. Current organization modeling approaches do not reflect this in an adequate way. This paper attempts to fill the gap by presenting a framework for modeli...

the aim of this paper is to construct a strategy map for a manufacturing company. to do so,based on the four aspects of the balanced scordcard, key performance indicators(kpi) were selected by a committee of experts. then, the decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (dematel) method was used to determind the type and intensity of relationships between key performance indicators and focu...

banks are one of the financial firms that different decisions are always minor system. an example of automation systems for human resources, finance, internal controls and so named. that is why banks are looking for a comprehensive system to integrate its activities are concentrated. so the enterprise resource planning system (erp) is one of the important applications of information technology ...

0747-5632/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.chb.2009.05.003 * Corresponding author. Address: Graduate Schoo tional Education, National Taiwan University of Scienc Keelung Road, Taipei 106, Taiwan, ROC. Tel.: +886 27376433. E-mail address: [email protected] (G.Y.-M. Kao Google Earth search function was used to study the impacts of small-scale spatial ability, large-scale en...

Original scientific paper Air quality monitoring stations are used for quick and reliable assessment of air quality. Although the stations are expensive, very often their number on certain territory exceeds optimal number of stations leading to their redundancy, increased costs, overlapping of data etc. To enable analysis of quantitative and qualitative criteria, authors propose an approach bas...

Many States are moving away from a very active role in the supervision of aviation activities. The reasons for this include the large number of inspectors required to perform this function, confusion over safety responsibilities and the need for a large enforcement organization, factors are assumed to contradict the safety culture that is promoted as being an important factor in safety manageme...