The present research was conducted to build a conceptual model of internal effective factors of small and medium enterprises in Mazandaran Province. To accomplish the goal of the research first, a complete review of the related literature was conducted. Second, questionnaires were given to the corresponding population. Finally, the gathered data were calculated and analyzed using SPSS, Exce...

Attention to the physical environment of an oncology center and the therapeutic potential of the environment are concepts to consider in nursing care. Art can enhance the human elements of caring and touch. Colorful quilts, whether hanging on the walls or given to patients, can provide emotional and physical warmth as well as represent a caring environment.

In a product development process, it is crucial to understand and evaluate multiple and synergic aspects of systems such as performance, cost, reliability and safety. These aspects are mainly considered during later stages of the design process. However, in order to improve the foundations for decision-making, this paper presents methods that are intended to increase the engineering knowledge i...

In the present paper, we introduce an extension of the conceptual graph model suitable to the representation 7 of data which are modelized using fuzzy sets. We extend the specialization relation of the conceptual graph model to fuzzy conceptual graphs. Lastly we introduce a new way of comparing conceptual graphs, using the 9 idea that a graph may be compatible with another graph with a given de...

At a recent Editorial Board meeting of Critical Care that was held in conjunction with the International Symposium of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine in Brussels, there was a fairly lively discussion about the Pro–Con section of the journal. Despite data demonstrating that the diverse and provocative Pro–Con debates published over the years have been popular, there was a sense they could ...

The production of social housing projects in Brazil has been criticized for systematically failing to meet the requirements of final users. This criticism comes mainly from post-occupancy evaluation studies carried out by academics. However, most of those studies have focused on the evaluation of housing product attributes, without considering the overall benefits resulting from the project. Du...

The term resilience has dominated the discourse among health systems researchers since 2014 and the onset of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. There is wide consensus that the global community has to help build more resilient health systems. But do we really know what resilience means, and do we all have the same vision of resilience? The present paper presents a new conceptual framework on go...