Lappeenranta University of Technology Department of Information Technology Fatemeh Ahmadi Zeleti THE PROGRESS AND OBSTACLES OF IMPLEMENTING AND IMPROVING E-GOVERNMENT IN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN Master’s Thesis 2010 89 pages, 4 figures, 15 tables Examiners: Professor, Ph.D. Kari Smolander Supervisor: Associate Professor D.Sc (Tech.) Erja Mustonen-Ollila

The public sector in developing countries is increasingly contracting with the non-state sector to improve access, efficiency and quality of health services. We conducted a multicountry study to assess the range of health services contracted out, the process of contracting and its influencing factors in ten countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Egypt, Islamic Repu...

Shiraz (Islamic Republic of Iran): Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) organized the Second International Conference of Chief Editors of Research Journals at the ISC Campus here on December 1st and 2nd 2014. It was attended by Chief Editors and representatives from Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Malaysia besides Iran. After the welcome address by Dr. M.R. Falahati from the Regional ...

Sajad Farokhia,b,∗, Jan Flussera, Usman Ullah Sheikhc a Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences, 18208, Prague 8, Czech Republic b Faculty of Computer Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, 85141-43131, Najafabad, Iran cDigital Signal and Image Processing Research Group, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, J...

Trauma Research Center, Department of Anesthesia, Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran We read with interest the article ‘‘Emergency Nursing Staff Dispatch: Sensitivity and Specificity in Detecting Prehospital Need for Physician Intervention During Ambulance Transport in Rovigo Emergency Ambulance Service, Italy’’ by Leopardi and Sommacampagna. Regarding th...

Authors: Jogender Mehla, Jamshid Faraji, Takashi Saito, Takaomi C Saido, Majid H. Mohajerani and Robert J. McDonald Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, Gorgan, Islamic Republic of Iran. Laboratory for Proteolytic Neuroscience, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, W...

OBJECTIVE Reliable information on the pattern, level and trend of mortality is essential for evidence-based policy to improve health. Various sources of mortality data in the Islamic Republic of Iran have not been critically assessed. This paper aims to document and evaluate the completeness of the different data sources on mortality and to estimate the level and trends of mortality over the pa...

Benjamin Heath is a second-year graduate student at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. As a graduate research assistant at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Heath focuses on domestic preparedness issues within the Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Project. Within the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project, Heath researches and analyzes the chemical and...