Information plays a vital role in effective management of any system. With the Health Management Information System (HMIS), specific information may be provided to support the decision makers at various levels of the health system to assist evidence-based decision making. It is almost three decades (from 1984) that Iranian Ministry of Health (MoH) has used HMIS in its pharmaceutical sector as a...

The position of the British government on Iraqi-Iranian war 1980-1988, especially at its beginning, was particular importance in drawing lines various relations with Iraqi government, which beginning a race against time to provide weapons, ammunition and military equipment from major industrial countries their companies this area. In view Britain adopting neutral stance towards war, is difficul...

One of the basic functions establishing corporate governance (CG) in companies is improving performance and increasing value for shareholders. Expanding company’s will ultimately increase shareholders’ wealth. Therefore, it natural shareholders to seek improve their value. If CG mechanisms cannot perform this function companies, they do not have necessary efficiency effectiveness and, therefore...

BACKGROUND In different studies, the prevalence of tobacco consumption has been growing in high schools boys. OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of smoking and its related factors among Iranian high school students in 2011. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 450 male students from 15 high schools of Shahroud (northeast of Iran) were selected fo...

energy, due to its increasing usage in various broad areas has been maintained as a vital factor in economic growth and development of societies. meanwhile, natural gas is considered as one of the most important energy sources. therefore, the efficiency and the productivity of the gas companies are crucial to be assessed. numerous examples from industrial multistage processes including internal...

Introduction: One of the most important components of emergency medical services (EMS) which plays a major role in reducing mortality and disability of victims is access to healthcare services. Equitable access to healthcare services requires providing essential and accessible services for all people without imposing any financial burden on them. The aim of this study was to determine and prior...

Improving performance of electrical distribution companies, as the natural monopoly entities in electric industry, has always been one of the main concerns of the regulators. In this paper, a new incentive regulatory scheme is proposed to improve the performances of electrical distribution companies. The proposed scheme utilizes several efficiency assessments and a 3-dimentional reward-penalty ...

Iranian oil companies are developing the technique of Hydraulic Fracturing (HF) operation to enhance the hydrocarbon recovery of deep carbonate formations. However, there is not a computerized tool or well defined framework for Iranian carbonate oil fields to select candidates. The ineffective HF experiences in the past emphasized that candidate selection is the frontline of a victorious HF ope...