introduction: voluntary counseling and testing (vct) for hiv infection is a confidential service offered to individuals in the community. this study intended to present a pattern for regional surveillance of vct services in iran. methods: this was an applied descriptive study. at first, the existing regional vct surveillance in 2009 was investigated through visiting the clinical deputy of medic...

in the current age, having entrepreneur approach to public administration in public organizations is one of the critical issues that affect the output of the organizations, especially in developing and less developing countries. although the approach is vital for public organizations, but unfortunately, few studies focused on it. the nature of the study is quantitative and based on applied and ...

the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between organizational culture and organizational citizenship behavior in ministry of sport and youth. this descriptive study was conducted by correlation method as a field. the population consisted of all employees who were working in ministry of sport and youth (n=300). due to the limited number of population, census sampling method was us...

the advantages and special characteristics of service oriented architecture and expansion of employing such architecture have brought security topics which are different in some cases from the security principles of traditional information systems. in this article our aim is the examination of various indices of security and the presentation of strategies for security in information systems by ...

the purpose of the study is to evaluate the service quality of islamic azad university of mazandaran. the study was a descriptive survey. the statistical population consists of all islamic azad university students of mazandaran and 373 students were chosen through stratified random sampling method as the sample of the study. the data were collected using the servqual standardized questionnaire....

To describe the characteristics of persons in the United States who smoke but do not smoke daily, we analyzed 1997-1998 data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). The NHIS collects self-reported information on cigarette smoking from a representative sample of the U.S. civilian, noninstitutionalized population aged 18 years or older through in-home surveys. Nondaily smokers were defi...

condition monitoring of bldc motors due to their important applications is gaining more and more significance. rotor eccentricity is one of the most important sources of faults in these motors. up to now, detection methods of this fault under nonstationary conditions are limited to complicated and time-consuming methods using wavelets and cohen class algorithms which are difficult to implement ...

This paper d e s c r i b e s a sys t em t h a t a t t e m p t s to i n t e r p r e t d e s c r i p t i v e t e x t s w i t h o u t the uJe of complex grammars. The pu rpose of the sys t em i s to t r a n s f o r m the d e s c r i p t i o n s to a s t a n d a r d form which may be used as the b a s i s of a d a t a b a s e s y s tem knowledgeable i n the s u b j e c t m a t t e r of the teXt. Th...