background: severe upper extremity injuries can affect the quality of life in patients and cause multi-factorial and long-term costs of disease. the aim of this study was to assess quality of life in patients with upper extremity injuries caused by work-related accidents. methods: in this study cross-sectional method was used in patients referred to the occupational medicine clinic of rasoul ak...

introduction information and communication technology (ict) is now one of the criteria for measuring the economic and industrial development, in a way that it has had significant effects on different aspects of socio-cultural, economic and political life of people and human communities. in this study, the authors have tried to investigate the economic, social and physical effects of ict centers...

abstract background: well-being is a subjective concept and means different things to various people. most of the research investigating the experience has concentrated on its problematic and pathological aspects. the aim of this research was to enhance the understanding of the contextual meaning of well-being based on personal life experiences of the participants. this will be of help to exper...

Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) face unique challenges since it must achieve a double bottom line— outreach and sustainability. So is microfinance worthwhile or worthless? The proper performance measurement framework here is a better way to judge this than a simple measure of numbers. This paper seeks to present, to MFIs, a new rigorous performance measurement framework that incorporates the b...

Product reviews are valuable resource for information seeking and decision making purposes. Products such as smart phone are discussed based on their aspects e.g. battery life, screen quality, etc. Knowing user statements about aspects is relevant as it will guide other users in their buying process. In this paper, we automatically extract user statements about aspects for a given product. Our ...