The whole is more than the sum of the parts.

The Knowledge Translation Complexity Network (KTCN) Model: The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts - A Response to Recent Commentaries

Carbon and energy taxes in a small and open country

Malaysia, as a small and developing country, must reduce carbon emissions because the country is one of the top CO2-emitting countries in the ASEAN region. Therefore, the current study implements two environmental tax policies; carbon and energy taxes, in order to examine the impacts of these policies on the reduction of carbon emission in the whole of the economy by applying a compu...

The Magic Pudding; Comment on “Four Challenges That Global Health Networks Face”

This commentary reflects on the contribution of this editorial and its “Three Challenges That Global Health Networks Face” to the totality of the framework developed over the past decade by Shiffman and his collaborators. It reviews the earlier works to demonstrate that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts in providing a package of tools for analysis of network effectiveness.   Additi...

Assessment of the completeness of Volunteered Geographic Information focusing on building blocks data (Case Study: Tehran metropolis)

Open Street Map (OSM) is currently the largest collection of volunteered geographic data, widely used in many projects as an alternative to or integrated with authoritative data. However, the quality of these data has been one of the obstacles to the widely use of it. In this article, from among the elements related to the quality of volunteered geographic data, we have tried to examine the com...

A multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) for hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with assembly operation

Scheduling for a two-stage production system is one of the most common problems in production management. In this production system, a number of products are produced and each product is assembled from a set of parts. The parts are produced in the first stage that is a fabrication stage and then they are assembled in the second stage that usually is an assembly stage. In this article, the first...

ویژگی‌های روان‌سنجی نسخه فارسی آزمون یادگیری شنوایی- کلامی ری در سالمندان

Objectives: The goal of the present study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Persian version of Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) in the elderly population. Method: 250 normal elderly individuals and 100 elderly individuals with Alzheimer’s dementia, aged between 60 and 80 who were selected using stratified-randomized sampling, were evaluated using Mini-Mental State Examin...