abstract health economic evaluation research plays an important role in selecting cost-effective interventions. the purpose of this study was to assess the quality of published articles in iranian journals related to economic evaluation in health care programs based on drummond’s checklist in terms of numbers, features, and quality. in the present review study, published articles (persian and e...

considering long term impacts of mehr housing plan on appearance and performances of cities, it is necessary that their construction will be done on the basis of geographical elements and criteria of urban planning in order to have positive impacts on urban quality and performance and reduce the ecological, social, and economical costs. therefore, this research analyzes and evaluates appropriat...

As is generally known, water could purify to its natural substances by performing basic wastewater treatment (WWT). Despite many WWT technologies available nowadays, experts have difficulty selecting the most suitable technology due to so many criteria that governed the selection. The paper aims to identify the most suitable WWT technology using the multi-criteria decision making technique, fuz...

OBJECTIVE To examine the longitudinal diagnostic efficiency of the DSM-IV criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD). METHODS At baseline, we used semistructured diagnostic interviews to determine criteria and diagnoses; blinded assessments were performed 24 months later with 550 participants. Diagnostic efficiency indices (specifically, conditional probabilities, total predictive pow...

The application of appropriate web site design and evaluation methods help to ensure more usable and accessible web sites. While in the literature guidelines and evaluation methods for accessibility and usability are given and discussed separately, we aim to identify the relationships between these two concepts, in particular considering usability criteria for accessible web sites. In this work...

The aim has been to minimize regression test suites while retaining fault detection capability of the test suite admissible. An appropriate minimized test suite should exercise different execution paths within a program. However, minimization of test suites may result in significant fault detection loss. To alleviate the loss, a new bi-criteria heuristic algorithm, using cluster analysis of tes...

In today's competitive work environment, it is important for managers to have personnel who can move the company forward and adapt changes as quickly possible. Selecting most suitable has a great influence on development of well motivation personnel. For this reason, frequently encountered problem evaluation significant one. problem, performance compared evaluated considering criteria set. Ther...

Nowadays, due to the competitive conditions of global market, corporations try to outsource their extraneous processes to third-party suppliers. So, selecting a proper supplier play a significant role in organization success. The supplier selection problem can be viewed as a group decision-making problem with multiple criteria. Since in previous researches the inter relationship between cri...