background: medical education has dramatically evolved in the past decades, and scholarly behaviors have gained popularity. in this study, scholarship-of-teaching activities from mashhad university of medical sciences (mums) were evaluated for the first time in this country. methods: data related to all applicants who were nominated for promotion to associate and full professor positions were s...

Serbia, as many countries in Eastern Europe, is in the process of reforming its health system in an effort to improve the efficiency and efficacy of health services and to achieve equal distribution of health resources. Representatives of Ministry of Health (MOH), Health Insurance Fund (HIF), and Institute of Public Health (IPH) articulated an overall health vision for the health sector in Serb...

OBJECTIVE To develop a short instrument to measure determinants of innovations that may affect its implementation. DESIGN We pooled the original data from eight empirical studies of the implementation of evidence-based innovations. The studies used a list of 60 potentially relevant determinants based on a systematic review of empirical studies and a Delphi study among implementation experts. ...

We introduce the concept of a temporal Magic Lens, a novel interaction technique that supports querying and browsing for video data. Video data is available from an increasingly number of sources, and yet analyzing and processing it is still often a manual, tedious task. A Temporal Magic Lens is an interactive tool that combines spatial and temporal components of video, creating a unified mecha...

BACKGROUND It is acknowledged that the success and uptake of eHealth improve with the involvement of users and stakeholders to make technology reflect their needs. Involving stakeholders in implementation research is thus a crucial element in developing eHealth technology. Business modeling is an approach to guide implementation research for eHealth. Stakeholders are involved in business modeli...

The main challenges for the tools which derive implementations from formal descriptions are to enhance the efficiency and facilitate the integration in various implementation contexts. We study in this paper the Estelle based implementations. Using the Estelle Development Toolset (EDT), we obtained a realistic implementation of a complex transport protocol, XTP 4.0, functionally comparable with...

This paper conducts an empirical evaluation of MPEG-7 visual part of experimentation model (XM) color descrip-tors in a challenging problem of content-based retrieval of semantic image categories. The performance of the four color descriptors provided in the current XM reference implementation, Color Layout, Color Structure, Dominant Color and Scalable Color, is compared to that of HSV autocorr...