BACKGROUND Fall is a worldwide health problem among elderly people and a known leading cause of disabilities. Fall prevention programs have been implemented in various forms. The Otago exercise program (OEP) is one of the most recent home-base exercise training program. OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of OEP to reduce falls among elderly people in Shahroud, IR...

 Given that improvement in efficiency is a major resource to economic development, this can be applied to each domestic sector of an economy. The objective of this paper is to measure technical efficiency of the Iranian Post Company across the country’s provinces using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The ranking of technical efficiency has been calculated by using collected data on post offi...

In order to study the contamination of Aspergillus flavus and aflatoxin production in pistachio cultivars in the Semnan province, eight cultivars of pistachio were collected from major pistachio growing areas. Using the serial dilution method, ground pistachio kernels were inoculated on plates containing AFPA medium and incubated at 28° C. This experiment was performed using three replications ...

Road traffic accidents including intercity car traffic accidents (ICTAs) are among the most important causes of morbidity and mortality due to the growing number of vehicles, risky behaviors, and changes in lifestyle of the general population. A sound knowledge of the geographical distribution of car traffic accidents can be considered as an approach towards the accident causation and it can be...

1Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, Management and Administrative Science, Semnan university, Semnan, Iran, 2 Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Email: [email protected], [email protected] ABSTRACT:The aim of this study was to measure and analyze the strategic agility of insurance companies through t...

BACKGROUND Coronary artery diseases (CAD) are associated with psychological problems such as anxiety and depression in patients. Thus, management of these problems can consider as an important intervention by health care workers, especially nurses. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of patient-focused clinical pathway on anxiety, depression and satisfact...