although it is said that developing countries generally face financial difficulties, it is important to note that financial burden of not meeting mental needs of cancer patients and their families might be more than that of providing psycho-oncology care. furthermore, cancer charities and other community resources and organizations can play important roles in compliance with codified and transp...

sustainable ecotourism is a nature oriented tourism that maintains a sound relationship with the natu-ral environment, and contributes to its conservation. ecological understanding is a prerequisite of sus-tainable ecotourism. nature conservation and ecotourism are interdependent. there should be a sym-biotic relationship between the two, in which, both derive sustainable benefits in a lengthy ...

BACKGROUND A key constraint to achieving the MDGs is the absence of a properly trained and motivated workforce. Loss of clinical staff from low and middle-income countries is crippling already fragile health care systems. Health worker retention is critical for health system performance and a key problem is how best to motivate and retain health workers. The authors undertook a systematic revie...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Imaging self-referral is increasingly cited as a contributor to diagnostic imaging overuse. The purpose of this study was to determine whether ownership of MR imaging equipment by ordering physicians influences the frequency of negative cervical spine MR imaging findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective review was performed of 500 consecutive cervical spine MRIs o...

in recent decades, since increasing the competition betweenorganizations for developing products and services, creating anddeveloping modern technologies has been strongly growing. in suchcircumstances, the main challenge of organizations is development oracquisition of the right technology in respect of the organizational goals.thus, this study intends to present a scale for evaluating communi...

UNLABELLED This article presents an extensive overview of best clinical practice pertaining to selection and use of multifocal intraocular lenses (IOLs) currently available in the United States. Relevant preoperative diagnostic evaluations, patient selection criteria, counseling, and managing expectations are reviewed, as well as how to approach patients with underlying ocular intricacies or ch...

Wavelet analysis as a recently data filtering method (or multi-scale decomposition) is particularly useful for describing signals with sharp spiky, discontinuous or fractal structure in financial markets. This study investigates the optimal several wavelet thresholding criteria or techniques to support the multi-signal decomposition methods of a daily Korean won / U.S. dollar currency market as...

Results: The analysis finds that cash flow sensitivity is a valid measure of financial constraints in the Indian manufacturing sector. Results according to splitting criteria found that investment decisions of standalone firms are more sensitive to cash flow than group affiliated firms. Further, splitting the firms according to market capitalization and tangible net worth reveals a higher degre...

Credit unions are small, cooperative, not-for-profit institutions, which distinguishes them from other financial intermediaries. In this study we conduct a performance evaluation of credit unions. The criteria respect the unique organizational and institutional features of credit unions, without losing sight of the fact that they must compete with other financial intermediaries. We use nonparam...

because of important role of development banks in optimal allocation of limited financial resources, their investment efforts must have an objective direction to the achievement of government's strategic goals. in order to get appropriate approaches in its investment, bank of industry and mine (bim) as the only development bank in industry and mine sector, aims to take a general survey amo...