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Forecasting & Futurism 4 th Annual Contest Submission

Dark Future Precedents: Science Fiction, Futurism and Law

In the next decade a collection of technological and biological advances will enable incredible breakthroughs. These advances will also reveal perils, threats and problems that have yet to be imagined. In the legal domain strategic passivity may be the tradition, but it will only become more expensive. Disruptive global trends in innovation and technological development, increased needs for art...

An input-oriented radial measure for returns to scale aggregation.

In production theory, it is necessary to be capable of predicting the production func- tion’s long-run behaviors. Hereof, returns to scale is a helpful concept. Returns to scale describes the reaction of a production function to the proportionally scaling all its input variables. In this regard, Data envelopment analysis (DEA) provides a com- prehensive framework for returns to scale evaluation...

Developing an instrument to measure effective factors on clinical learning

Introduction: Although nursing students spend a large partof their learning period in the clinical environment, clinicallearning has not been perceived by its nature yet. To develop aninstrument to measure effective factors on clinical learning innursing students.Methods: This is a mixed methods study performed in 2 steps.First, the researchers defined “clinical learning” in nursingstudents thr...

Development of A Questionnaire to Measure Attitude toward Oocyte Donation

Background To our knowledge, there is no valid and comprehensive questionnaire that considers attitude toward oocyte donation (OD). Therefore this study has aimed to design and develop a tool entitled attitude toward donation-oocyte (ATOD-O) to measure attitude toward OD. MaterialsAndMethods This methodological, qualitative research was undertaken on 15 infertile cases. In addition, we performe...