hospital waste material generation is an undesired process in a hospital service rendering system. infectious wastes due to their hazardous nature which containing pathogenic micro organisms could harm and contaminate human environment in comparison to other waste materials. for this reason, it is necessary to adopt relevant alternatives and mechanisms to curb and disinfect them. the research p...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the needs assessment component of service education programs for the managers and staff at the Department of Youth and Sports based on the ISO 10015 standard. The research method was a descriptive survey conducted as a case study. The statistical population consisted of all managers and staff, consisting a total of 120 of the Esfahan Province General Direct...

This paper presents and describes a Web-based implementation of a three-dimensional software quality measurement model. The implementation is based on the 2003 version of the ISO quality model for software products: ISO 9126. The prototype presented includes all the 120+ measures proposed in the ISO standard, as well as weight assignments, target values, current project values and automated cal...

purpose: the qualitative evaluation of iranian children and young adults' websites. methodology/approach: it is a survey study using a checklist based on iso 9126-1 and web-qem model. data gathered from 33 websites. results: iranian children and young adults' websites are not in a desirable status considering usability (average=0.39) and functionality (average=0.44). also, they are st...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate health risks to operators of large and small load-haul-dump (LHD) vehicles exposed to whole-body vibration (WBV), based on criteria established in ISO 2631-1, ISO 2631-5, and EU Directive 2002/44 EC. Studies simultaneously evaluating health risks based on all three standards are limited. Operator WBV exposure was measured in accordance with ISO 2631-1 u...

objective(s) several studies have reported improved response of exercised hearts to myocardial infarction (mi). this study was aimed to evaluate the preventive role of treadmill exercise and diosgenin on cardiac marker enzymes, thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (tbars), total antioxidant status (tas), lipids, and electrocardiographic (ecg) patterns in isoproterenol (iso)-induced myocardia...