in recent years, agriculture has become the prime polluter of natural resources. it is therefore essential to make assessments based on reliable indicators to ensure that an agricultural system remains not only productive, but also ecologically sound. a large area of arable land in guilan province is devoted to rice cultivation so the transition to environmentally sound agricultural practice in...

introduction: hospitals performance indicators will help monitoring, evaluation and decision making and therefore must be selected and ranked accurately. the aim of present study is identifying and selecting key hospitals performance indicators. materials and methods: this is a descriptive and mixed (quantitative-qualitative) study. literature review and expert panel has been done to identify a...

National statistical institutes have recently presented a set of indicators for sustainable development. The indicators present different topics and the simultaneous achievement of different goals. That is, economic, social and environmental goals. Statistics Denmark also presented a series of indicators for sustainable development in 2003. However, policy analysis of sustainable development re...

This paper presents a new location management scheme that integrates two key ideas, namely, (i) Subscriber Movement Profile (SMP) based on spatial and temporal locality of the movement of a mobile terminal and (ii) localized updates known as Time-bound Self Purging Indicators (TSPI) generated by a probabilistic approach when a mobile terminal does not adhere to registered profile. The SMP regis...

this survey is conducted with the purpose of studying factors effective in vitality of residential complexes. this is an important subject because through recognition of the reciprocal relation between human being and environment -as far as vitality is concerned- various attitudes and approaches can be recognized and on the other hand, for the purpose of explaining the concept of vitality in th...

Automatic anomaly detection is a major issue in various areas. Beyond mere detection, the identification of the origin of the problem that produced the anomaly is also essential. This paper introduces a general methodology that can assist human operators who aim at classifying monitoring signals. The main idea is to leverage expert knowledge by generating a very large number of indicators. A fe...

background: pasteur institute of iran was established in 1919 with the aim to produce vaccines and prevent communicable diseases in iran. over time, their activities extended into areas of research, education and services. naturally, such a vast development begs establishment of a comprehensive management and monitoring system. with this outlook, the present study was carried out with the aim t...