BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the trend of changes in Cataract Surgical Rate (CSR) in the provinces of Iran during 2006 to 2010 and identify high risk areas. METHODS This report is part of the national Iranian CSR Study. The percentage change in CSR in 2010 compared to 2006 was conducted in each province, retrospectively. One hundred and ten centers were chosen from all pr...

China’s Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2011–2015) aims to achieve a national carbon intensity reduction of 17% through differentiated targets at the provincial level. Allocating the national target among China’s provinces is complicated by the fact that more than half of China’s national carbon emissions are embodied in interprovincial trade, with the relatively developed eastern provinces relying on ...

isi web of science (wos) is the world's most prestigious database that is used in order to evaluate and rank the countries, researchers, institutions, and universities. therefore, determining the status of iranian articles in this database in the field of poisonous and venomous animals is important. quantitative and qualitative assessments of scientific outputs are the main goals of this stu...

مقدمه:امروزه تعدد و کیفیت نامعلوم مجلات حیطه‏های مختلف علوم پزشکی، پژوهشگران را در انتخاب مجله مناسب برای انتشار نتایج تحقیقات علمی سردرگم کرده است. شاید معیارهای سنجش کیفیت مجلات بتوانند این مشکل را تا حدودی حل کنند؛ لذا مطالعه حاضر با هدف بررسی کیفیت مجلات حوزه‏ زنان و مامایی بر اساس شاخص‏های رتبه‏بندی مجلات در پایگاه‏های اطلاعاتی معتبر انجام شد. روش کار: این مطالعه به صورت توصیفی تحلیلی و به...

introduction: today, huge quantity of medical journals with indescribable quality, have confused health researchers while choosing a suitable journal to publish their scientific results. it seems that quality measuring criteria of journals could have solved this problem to some extent. in this study, we studied quality of journals of obstetrics and gynecology field indexed in the valid database...

In many applications, ranking of decision making units (DMUs) is a problematic technical task procedure to decision makers in data envelopment analysis (DEA), especially when there are extremely efficient DMUs. In such cases, many DEA models may usually get the same efficiency score for different DMUs. Hence, there is a growing interest in ranking techniques yet. The purpose of this paper is ra...

‎ranking fuzzy numbers is generalization of the concepts of order, and class, and so have fundamental applications. moreover, deriving the final efficiency and powerful ranking are helpful to decision makers when solving fuzzy problems. selecting a good ranking method can apply to choosing a desired criterion in a fuzzy environment. there are numerous methods proposed for the ranking of fuzzy n...