background & objectives: regional planning requires identification of the development status of regions relative to each other. one of the indicators of development is health indicator that describes utilization of health services in the society. the purpose of this study is to analyze health indicators status in ardabil province and prioritize them for future planning. methods: based on practi...

Many traditionally agricultural dependent economies have transformed towards service industries, such as tourism. This transformation resulted in significant impacts upon economies, communities and the environment. However, existing indicators to measure the impacts of tourism on regions have not been examined across the transformation process, leaving a gap in the understanding of long-range p...

In another paper at this workshop, Diana Carney discusses the new, holistic approaches to poverty reduction, and the role of agricultural research. This paper draws directly on her conclusions to examine implications for monitoring and impact assessment activities in agricultural research programmes. Although ‘traditional’ impact assessment techniques based on economic efficiency are necessary ...

Demand prediction is a hot research field in markets management, especially for fresh agricultural products prediction based on supply chain management. Based on BP neural network, a new demand prediction algorithm for fresh agricultural products is presented in the paper. First, the structure and data indicators of BP neural network algorithm are redesigned and the training function is selecte...

the main function of rural areas in the third world is the agricultural function which is crucially important because of its great effects on employment, moderating income and poverty, food security and self-efficacy. this article studies the role of agriculture (as an independent variable) in rural development (related variable) of miyankangi district in sistan. the method of the study was des...

background: social health is important to be assessed as a dimension of health. in this study we tried to determine areas and sub-areas of children social health indicators.   methods: in a structured way, we reviewed the main social health databases and documents since 1995, both iranian and international were reviewed to develop conceptual framework and to extract indicators.   results: accor...

after the war with iraq which ended in 1988, iran implemented several agricultural support policies based on five-year national development plans. the main objective of these plans in the agriculture sector was to make the agricultural economy more market-oriented and to encourage sustainable agriculture. this paper investigates the extent to which iran's government has been able to achieve thi...

Internet has been perhaps the most outstanding innovation in the field of communication in the history of mankind. The main purpose of this study was to explore the role of Internet in the professional development of teachers working in agricultural schools in Kermanshah Province (N=35). Census survey was used due to the small size of the statistical population. A questionnaire was developed ba...