Based on Eysenbach’s view, infodemiology can be defined as the science of distribution and determinants of information in an electronic medium, specifically the Internet, or in a population, with the ultimate aim to inform public health and public policy. The current study aimed to investigate the state of health information supply and demand on stomach cancer among Iranian medical researchers ...

The Indian automotive industry has flourished like never before in the recent years. On the canvas of the Indian Economy, Auto Industry occupies a prominent place. The car industry in India has been on steroids. The domestic sales have reached a level of 2 million units per annum, growing in double digits. It is expected to rise further to 3.66 million units by 2014-15 and 5.2 million units by ...

Entrepreneurs face different sort of difficulties especially with customers, organizations and employees. Emotional intelligence which is the ability to understand and control the emotions is an important factor to help entrepreneurs end up challenges to the result they prefer. So it is assumed that entrepreneurs especially those who have passed the first challenging years of starting a new bus...

Ongoing globalization causes increasing transportation rates and transshipment volumes at sea ports (Steenken, 2004). Different to container transshipment, the transshipment of finished vehicles has received only minor attention in research yet (Mattfeld and Kopfer, 2003). By means of statistics for major ports of the North-West European coast line the structure and development of vehicle trans...

An engineering methodology to identify profitable market segments for the use of new materials is presented and illustrated by application to the automobile industry. The method has three parts: empirical, statistical and analytical. The first measures company preferences for the important attributes of a use of a material, applying single-attribute utility functions. The second identifies mark...

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I n this issue of CJASN, Dr. Ahad Ghods, along with Dr. Shekoufeh Savaj, presents the most comprehensive review to date of the Iranian model of kidney transplantation. It is an excellent report given by a colleague for whom we have high personal regard and with whom we have interacted at several international transplant meetings in recent years. His contribution to the Amsterdam Forum was subst...

“Bazaar” is a Persian word from the language of Iranians of 2500 years ago which has entered the languages of other countries. “Bazaar”, the trading or marketing place with the architectural principles and concerns, was formed in Iran because of the long experience of marketing. This has become a valuable inheritance of Islamic ideological civilization and Iranian advanced architecture and a mo...