to estimate the prevalence and analyze factors associated with both public and private health services utilization in women population in a western district of iran.a cross-sectional study with 1200 individuals aged 18-49 years carried out in different districts of sanandaj city, western iran, in 2012. the main outcome variable was use of health service in the previous 12 months. the in-depende...

background: according to quality transformation of services during the time, the quality requirements and standards also change and recognition of these requirements and transformation process can assist in recognizing the quality dimensions of services. the aim of this research was to explain the transformation process, requirements and quality dimensions of services in hospitals.   methods: t...

conclusions efforts to improve vaccination coverage should be taken into account regarding the differences in the factors that contribute to the incomplete vaccination status of children in the rural and urban areas. the current study findings indicate that vaccination services especially in the urban areas need to be reassessed to ensure that all children are covered. to develop and promote ch...

background and objectives: outsourcing healthcare and the associated services has proven as an effective strategy for enhancing hospital performance and improving quality of services. despite, the concept is relatively new in iran, calling for studies investigating different aspects of the issue and its potential benefits. thus, this study was conducted to explore the impact of outsourcing mana...

The widespread use of the Internet as a communication medium has opened the possibility to carry out software projects with a team of geographically distributed software engineers cooperating and communicating over the Internet. In the future, this development approach will likely become increasingly common. We argue that this necessitates the use of Internet-based Computer-Aided Software Engin...

3D anatomical feature curves (AFC) on bone models reconstructed from CT/MRI images are important in some fields, such as preoperative planning, intra-operative navigation, patient-specific prosthesis design, etc. Interactive extraction of feature curves on patient-specific bone models is time-consuming, has low repeatability and accuracy. This paper presents a computer graphics method to automa...

We have measured the angular distributions of high energy photoelectrons of benzene molecules generated by intense infrared femtosecond laser pulses. These electrons arise from the elastic collisions between the benzene ions with the previously tunnel-ionized electrons that have been driven back by the laser field. Theory shows that laser-free elastic differential cross sections (DCSs) can be e...

dvances in information technology such as object-oriented programming, realtime operating systems, and reliable computer communication networks enable the deployment of effective control and automation systems [1]. Industry exploits information technology in distributed control system (DCS) products, whose components include proportional-integral-derivative (PID) and programmable logic controll...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of surgical treatment in the sexuality of the obese. METHODS We conducted a qualitative / quantitative research with 30 patients who had undergone Fobi-Capella Roux-Y gastric bypass for at least one year. We collected data through individual interviews using a questionnaire with 10 mixed questions and one open, between May and June 2011. The objective data were ...

In most industrial processes, vast amounts of data are recorded through their distributed control systems (DCSs) and emergency shutdown (ESD) systems. This twopart article presents a dynamic risk analysis methodology that uses alarm databases to improve process safety and product quality. The methodology consists of three steps: (i) tracking of abnormal events over an extended period of time, (...