the present study examined the role of social capital on financial performance of farming cooperatives in khouzestan province. the method of research was descriptive- correlative. the population consisted of 3273 members of farming cooperatives. based on cochran formula, 213 persons were selected. the survey was conducted using a questionnaire. content validity of the questionnaire was determin...

Previous studies indicated that human papilloma virus (HPV) infection may be associated with risk of oral squamous cell carcinomas (OSCC). In this study, we evaluate the relationship OSCC and HPV infection in Chinese population via meta-analysis. A total of 7 articles were included in our study eligible case-control studies. After testing the heterogeneity of the studies by the Cochran Q test, ...

INTRODUCTION For estimation of population characteristics (mainly totals, means, counts) in business statistics surveys, the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO) has been recently exploring a new approach, in which all data for units that are out of the sample are imputed based on predictions by regression, instead of estimating the population characteristics through weighting. The all-data imputati...

This study is a continuation of an earlier study that examined hospitalization rates for ambulatory care sensitive (ACS) conditions, as a proxy for quality of care, and found evidence of a racial disparity among African American and White Medicare beneficiaries. The current study sought to determine whether neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) explained this disparity. Differences in rates o...

Main goal of research is to study the impact of internal marketing strategy on perceived service quality by clients at MCI. To achieve this, a descriptive research design was adopted. Statistical population consists of all employees of marketing department and clients of MCI in Tehran. And, out of this, 150 employees and 217 clients were selected by Cochran formula and simple random sampling as...

Entrepreneurs face different sort of difficulties especially with customers, organizations and employees. Emotional intelligence which is the ability to understand and control the emotions is an important factor to help entrepreneurs end up challenges to the result they prefer. So it is assumed that entrepreneurs especially those who have passed the first challenging years of starting a new bus...

RESEARCH LETTER Association BetweenHospital Characteristics and Performance on theNewHospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program’s Surgical Site InfectionMeasures The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services HospitalAcquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program implemented financial penalties for poorly performing hospitals in federal fiscal year 2015. However, higher-quality hospitals appear ...