background: due to unpredictability of events in psychiatry environment and replacement of routine clinical experiences with some assignments such as therapeutic communication with patients, clinical training in such environments has been associated with many problems which require continuous review and evaluation.  the purpose of the present research was to determine the effect of applying por...

background: the increased concern for accountability and quality improvement is inducing universities throughout the world to evaluate and control performance. hence, this study was conducted to assess basic science department of sabzevar medical school to improve the quality of the department. methods: this study is a descriptive cross sectional study. we asked faculty members, managers, inter...

several studies have been performed to evaluate the desertification in iran andother countries which led to present national and regional models. one of them is imdpamodel. this model was used as a case study in taraz nahid, saveh, iran. in this study, fivefactors including climate, soil, vegetation, irrigation, and socioeconomic ones wereevaluated. according to the region conditions for each c...

in this paper, multi-microgrids (mmg) are considered as future smart distribution grids, in which small scale energy resources (sser) are main power generation units with small scales. optimal operation of microgrids in defined intervals is carried out to achieve economic conditions in distribution systems. the defined operating problem is optimized using a heuristic algorithm considering uncer...

background: although studies reported diabetes mellitus screening cost effective, the mass screening for type2 diabetes remains controversial. in this study we reviewed the recently evidence about the cost effectiveness of mass screening systematically.   methods: we reviewed the medline, scopus, web of science (wos), and cochrane library databases by mesh terms to identify relevant studies fro...

the purpose of the present research was study effect anxiety of social negative evaluation in children’s social seclusion aged 8 to 12 in tehran city. therefore, 250 children (125 boys and 125 girls) were randomly chosen in order to answer fear short scale of negative evaluation )bfne) and social seclusion scale (ucla). the data from this research were analyzed by using of pearson`s product mom...

center pivot irrigation system is used as a modern irrigation method in different parts of iran. unfortunately due to lack of proper design and hydraulic shortcomings of the system in several agricultural lands in iran, the efficiency of the center pivot irrigation system is low or unacceptable. low system efficiency results in non-uniformity of water distribution along the lateral and on the c...