the current limited focus on management in global health activities is highly problematic given the amounts of financial and human resources that are pouring into health system strengthening interventions and the complexity of clinical operations across settings. by ensuring that public health and healthcare practitioners in domestic and international settings receive management training in the...

early warning systems are key components of strategies to reduce risk. this research, by adopting a systematic approach in the management of the risk of desertification and by including previously developed models and systems, offers an integrated efficient structure in terms of early warning for the risk of desertification as a pilot system for semi-arid areas of west golestan province in iran...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) require the power of sophisticated database management systems for efficiently managing the persistency and consistency of huge amounts of data. A pool of software tools takes care of the production process, which consists of editing, visualising and selecting geographic data. However, the quality of the data – its well-formedness and integrity – is not so e...

This article provides an overview of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the issues surrounding their use in mortgage finance and related industries. After a brief introduction to GIS and geographic data, the application of GIS technology to mortgage finance is explored. The article also examines organizational challenges in developing in-house GIS capability. GIS’s greatest potential cont...

the effective and sustainable environmental performance of a business is a result of various factors and most important the integrated outcome of the environmental management. likewise, the integration of environmental protection into the armed forces functions has also gain interest for the military sector internationally. therefore, the environmental management system (ems) is recognized as o...

nowadays, with the advent of new satellite services, the need for resource management in the emerging fifth generation satellite systems (5g-satellite) is inevitable. thus, to solve this problem, the bandwidth manager for resource reservation in satellite link is mandatory. on the other hand, due to limited resources, their resource management­ is essential. in order to resource management in 5...

information systems outsourcing issues has been attracted in recent years because many information systems projects in organizations are done in this case. on the other hand, failure rate of this kind of projects is also high. the aim of this article is to find success factors in risk management of information systems outsourcing in commercial banks using these factors leads to increase the suc...

load management and cost optimization are among the important factors in trigenerationsystems and combined cooling, heating and power (cchp) systems. in this study, an innovative cchpsystem uses a gas turbine as the prime mover and has a heat recovery steam generator (hrsg) in addition toan auxiliary boiler, electric and absorption chillers. the system is tied with the bulk electric grid; to ex...

application of agent based model in simulation of stakeholder’s behavior is slightly a new method for modeling of complicated systems that include autonomous agents interacting with each other. recent numerical achievements have made the applications of agent based models possible in various fields. these applications range from modeling of human progress and destruction of past civilizations t...