Background: Considering the occurrence of medical emergencies in dental practice, and the essential need of acquiring competency in Basic life support (BLS), the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of BLS workshop on the skills of dental students in the cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Methods: In this switching replication experimental study, students in the 5th year of Mashhad d...

Worldwide food security and water safety issues necessitate countries with low water use efficiency of crop production (CWUE) to increase it and reduce regional CWUE variations. CWUE function was estimated with stochastic frontier analysis, and CWUE variation was decomposed on inter-continental, intra-continental and international level with variance decomposition method. It is proposed that in...

In this research, we compare three related requirements engineering efforts: an industrial effort based on use cases; a case study analyzing these use cases by means of goal analysis; and a case study analyzing the same use cases with an integrated scenario analysis approach.

Due to the rapid expansion of information and communication technology (ICT) usage, the telecommunications industry is faced with a challenge to promote green ICT toward achieving a low-carbon society. One critical obstacle in planning long-term strategies for green ICT is the uncertainty of various external factors, such as consumers’ lifestyle and technological advancement. To tackle this iss...

As health organizations strive to improve operational efficiencies and increase worker productivity, new forms of health information technologies (HITs) are constantly being developed. This article surveys the extant HIT literature and adopts a case analysis approach to identifying emerging health information technologies. The understanding of HIT trend is further enriched through the applicati...

In this paper the relationship between body, motion and sound is addressed. The comparison with traditional instruments and dance is shown with regards to basic types of motion. The difference between gesture and movement is outlined and some of the models used in dance for structuring motion sequences are described. In order to identify expressive aspects of motion sequences a test scenario is...

Many studies have assessed the potential of agricultural practices to sequester carbon (C). A comprehensive evaluation impacts requires not only considering C storage but also direct and indirect emissions greenhouse gases (GHG) their side effects (e.g., on water cycle or production). We used a high-resolution modeling approach with Simulateur mulTIdisciplinaire pour les Cultures Standard soil-...

Coastal cities in China are challenged by multiple growth paths and strategies related to demands in the housing market, economic growth and eco-system protection. This paper examines the effects of conflicting strategies between economic growth and environmental protection on future urban scenarios in Ningbo, China, through logistic-regression-based cellular automata (termed LogCA) modeling. T...

The socio-economic decline of extensive sheep farming caused by its low profitability in southern European Union (EU) regions threatens marginal depopulated rural areas' survival. In the face new future institutional and climate challenges, there appears to be an urgent need for strategies improve economic performance. This paper aims evaluate performance risk two alternative demand-oriented pr...