national identity is a main factor of stability of social and political systems. therefore one of the aims and scopes of poiltical socialization in all political systems is strengthening and reproduction of national identity. but this problem is required to exact recognition and evaluation, it is necessary to identify, dimensions, elements and indicators of national identity in order to dot sci...

performance evaluation in big organizations plays an important role in recognition of strategic and operational goals. regarding to this concept, some performance indicators and their communication with goals and activities must be assigned, measured and analyzed. nowadays information technology is a main driver of any business, as you know business process of information technology is differen...

This study aimed to develop indicators for evaluating the implementation of The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in Iran. We used the "grounded theory" framework. Totally, 265 policy-makers, stakeholders, and community members were recruited by purposeful sampling in 2008. After analyzing the gathered data, 251 indicators, including 82 indicators as "applied indicators", were deri...

This paper adopts two mathematical approaches, data envelopment analysis (DEA) and grey relation analysis (GRA) to measure DEA efficiency using the sample of 69 listed US internet companies. A total of 40 indicators were initially selected for the efficiency evaluation, with 21 related to DEA-input indicators and 19 to DEAoutput indicators. Eight representative indicators selected using GRA are...

BACKGROUND In a context where there is an increasing demand to evaluate the outcome of bio-medical research, our work aims to develop a set of indicators to measure the impact of translational cancer research. The objective of our study was to explore the scope and issues of translational research relevant to evaluation, explore the views of researchers on the evaluation of oncological translat...

Talent evaluation is a very important part in the human resources development and management process, and it has certain implications for talent prediction and planning, allocation and management, and training. In this paper, the author makes a fuzzy evaluation model of creative talents based on analytic hierarchy process. By using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process, we combine qualitative indica...

There are various possibilities for the design of urban stormwater systems, using best management practices. Castro and Baptista (2004) have proposed a set of performance indicators, based social, environmental, sanitary and hydrologic aspects. During the validation process, a critical analysis of the indicators was done. The aim of this paper is to present the results of this analysis which is...

objectives: one of the problems in the process of assessment and evaluation, especially of clinical training in rehabilitation disciplines, is the lack of an instrument with objective criteria for evaluation. considering the effects of appropriate evaluation on quality assurance of clinical training, the aim of the present study was to design a valid and reliable tool for general evaluation of ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of primary care group visits (chronic care clinics) on the process and outcome of care for diabetic patients. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We evaluated the intervention in primary care practices randomized to intervention and control groups in a large-staff model health maintenance organization (HMO). Patients included diabetic patients > or = 30 years of age i...