The knowledge management literature suggests that an organization’s knowledge ecosystem is comprised of strategic situations in which the individual behaviors of its knowledge workers show potential conflicts with what would be optimal for the organization. This paper aims to explore how such behaviors in terms of knowledge flows may be modeled and analyzed using a game theoretic approach. Whil...

Background: Patients with severe mental illnesses are more prone to experience sexual health problems. Herein, we developed a "Safe Sex Knowledge and Behavior Questionnaire for Patients with Severe Mental Illnesses"(SSKBQ-SMI). Methods: The present study was conducted in the form of methodological research in 4 stages. In the first stage, items of the questionnaire were selected and the item p...

Background: The Background of this study was to assess (KABP) regarding HIV/AIDS among pregnant women attending PPTCT program before and after counseling at Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi. Materials and Methods: It was an intervention longitudinal study. Data was collected by interviewing 600 pregnant women attending antenatal clinic during May 2006 to May 2007 using a pre-test and post-tested q...

abstract background: solid waste generated by human activities. today, solid waste has changed a ‎lot‏ ‏with changing lifestyles. the main aim of this study ‎was to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and behavior of students in ‎shiraz university of medical sciences about the recycling of solid ‎waste. methods: this analytical -descriptive cross- sectional study was ‎done on 383 students of shira...

consanguineous marriages are traditionally favoured in most of asian and african countries especially in the muslim countries. however, it is apparent that these kinds of marriage are a major factor of some genetic disorders inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern. although there is a long history of consanguineous marriage in iran, the information on its prevalence is too poor. the aim of ...