Single sign on mechanisms allow users to sign on only once and have their identities automatically verified by each application or service they want to access afterwards. There are few practical and secure single sign on models, even though it is of great importance to current distributed application environments. Most of current application architectures require the user to memorize and utiliz...

Until now, only income factors were considered for empowerment. But in contemporary times, most nonprofit and non-advocacy approaches, such as social capital and its components, have been taken into consideration. The World Bank has identified social capital as one of the pillars of the empowerment process. Hence, the main purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of social capital and its...

the aim of this study was to examine the employment status of the elderly over 60. a survey was carried out on the employment status of the elderly referring to the social security organization in tehran. a questionnaire along with interview was used for data collection. the samples were chosen randomly and selected  through the people referring to 30 social security offices in tehran, 15 peopl...

Big data is the slightly abstract phase which describes the relationship between the data size and data processing speed in the system. The many new information technologies the big data deliver dramatic cost reduction, substantial improvements in the required time to perform the computing task or new product and service offerings. The several complicated specific and engineering problems can b...

Purpose Medical societies are incorporating Twitter to communicate with their members and connect with patients. This study compares the online presence of 3 major oncologic societies. Methods and materials All available tweets in 2014 by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), and Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) were collected. We...

abstract background and purpose:work-related accidents are causing distress and economic losses. this study was conducted to estimate the burden of occupational accidents by the use of disability-adjusted life year (daly) calculation in iranian social security organization (isso), tehran province, between 2008 and 2011 time frame. materials and methods:this descriptive analytical study was cond...

EVERYONE knows that a population bulge, the post– World War II baby boom generation, will be reaching retirement age beginning around 2010. Already, this aging of the population is being reflected in the debate over “saving social security.” Various proposals for fixing social security have been offered, ranging from modest payroll tax increases and benefit cuts to investments in the stock mark...

Identity management systems are a reality today in the Internet. Single sign-on (SSO) systems allow users to authenticate once in the system and interact with different services providers without the need for creating new accounts. However, most identity management systems only support a simple authentication mechanism, which most of the cases is based on login and password, with its well known...

Background Iran has a widespread diagnostics and clinical support services (DCSS) network that plays a crucial role in providing diagnostic and clinical support services to both inpatient and outpatient care. However, very little is known on the application of quality assurance (QA) policies in DCSS units. This study explores the extent of application of eleven QA strategies in DCSS units withi...