globalization and high pace of technological processes,achieved by information technology, increase the pressure on private andpublic organizations to compete for providing new services. the servicesector accounts for the largest employment growth and value-added indeveloped economies. therefore, extensive studies on developing newservices and their success factors have become more important. i...

OBJECTIVE The Family Health Program (FHP) is a strategy for reorganizing the healthcare attendance system within the Brazilian National Health System. The objective of the study was to assess whether there had been changes in the utilization profile of the healthcare services following implementation of the program, and to identify factors associated with any changes observed. METHODS Data on...

We conducted preference assessments with 4 typically developing children to identify potential reinforcers and assessed the reinforcing efficacy of those stimuli. Next, we tested two predictions of economic theory: that overall consumption (reinforcers obtained) would decrease as the unit price (response requirement per reinforcer) increased and that the cost and benefit components that defined...

The purpose of this research was to assess the role of educational factors in protecting urbanlandscapes in Tehran Metropolitan. This is a quantitative research, applied and descriptivecorrelationmethod was used. The research population consisted of all participants in educationalcourses held by Tehran municipality (N=300) and 172 of them selected by using simple randomsampling method. To gathe...