Nursing manpower plays an important role in care quality and health promotion. So any health care organization without an efficient nursing unit is not expected to survive for a long time. This study was conducted to estimate the number of the necessary nursing manpower for the selected hospitals according to the proposed model by the Iran ministry of health.This research is a cross wardal stud...

Clustering can be applied to many fields including data mining, statistical data analysis, pattern recognition, image processing etc. In the past decade, a lot of efficient and effective new clustering algorithms have been proposed, in which famous algorithms contributed from the database community are CLARANS, BIRCH, DBSCAN, CURE, STING, CLIGUE and WaveCluster. All these algorithms try to chal...