introduction: one of the common methods for scientific activity assessment is scientometrics. it has been made possible with citation databases like web of science (wos) and scopus. in this paper, we studied the scientific production rate of hamadan university of medical sciences during 11 years via scientometrics methods. methods: in a descriptive, cross-sectional study, data was collected by ...

Assessment of the health impacts of recreational water quality is a useful tool in developing appropriate policies. Risk assessment approaches are increasingly being used as a scientific rationale for risk management. This chapter describes the various methods used for identification and quantification of hazards in recreational water risk assessment. It also looks at how different factors infl...

background: every year a number of iran’s faculty members in medical science universities got promoted to a higher scientific rank with respect to their history of administrative and scientific services and research and educational activities. one of the faculty promotion criteria is assessing the quality of their educational activities which encompass four areas (training, professional and soc...

The present paper deals with the national specifics of the assessment aspect in the meaning of the words. A modern scientific paradigm considers the language as a cognitive tool of understanding the world and keeping and representing people’s experience and values which reflect the people’s vision of the world (“the world picture). Usually linguistics understands the language ...

The problem of how to objectively assess the overall welfare status of animals under farming conditions has contributed to an ongoing debate that has hampered actual decision making on animal welfare. For this reason we constructed a model based on the assumed hierarchical organization of the animals' needs for overall welfare assessment in the case of pregnant sows. This model is implemented i...

Qualitative assessment of scientific computations is an emerging application area that applies a data-driven approach to characterize, at a high level, phenomena including conditioning of matrices, sensitivity to various types of error propagation, and algorithmic convergence behavior. This paper develops a spatial aggregation approach that formalizes such analysis in terms of model selection u...

A virtual reality system, consisting of a head-mounted stereoscopic display and a computer-interfaced glove, was assessed by examining interaction with a 3-D model of the human brain. Interactions were recorded on videotape. Non-trivial user interface issues were identified, ranging from constraints imposed by the nature of the wearable interface hardware, to the choice of gestures for controll...

Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 29 Sup:S4-S6, 2013 Health technology assessment (HTA) focuses on understanding the clinical, economic, environmental, social, political, and legal implications of new technologies, or changes in established ones. This multidisciplinary field can provide various decision-makers with hierarchical analyses of the available options for health policy implementatio...

Based on the premise that producing research also means publishing it, any researcher should be prepared not only for research production, but also for dissemination and assessment. Before being published in journals, scientific production goes through a judicious review process. Among the presented work, those studies are selected with original and innovative results that permit technical-scie...