End-user development (EUD) activities where the end-user assumes a central role in creating or modifying software artefacts have the potential to offer meaningful experiential learning opportunities for students in IS courses. By providing hands-on exposure to technology platforms in the context of business problems and requirements, EUD activities can help bridge the gap between education and ...

conclusions based on these findings, the use of self-empowerment regardless of the education program tools (workshop or training package), can promote self-care skills and thus improve the quality of life in diabetic patients. methods this study was a randomized clinical trial. diabetic patients referring to the diabetes center, affiliated to urmia university of medical sciences, participated i...

aim: effective communication has a key role in nursing profession. furthermore, controlling emotions as a part of communication skills has an important role in initiating and maintaining healthy social communications. the meaning of emotional intelligence is also effected considerably by the importance of this aspect of social communications. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of...

a few years after the implementation of computerize maintenance management systems (cmms), showing the analysis results of the collected data in these systems is necessary and important for continuing the usage of these systems. equipment downtime and cost data can identify patterns of equipment faults and equipment costs. it can also show deficiencies in the implementation of maintenance syste...

background: nowadays medical equipment plays an important role in the treatment and in the medical education. using outdated preventive maintenance (pm) system may cause problems in the cutting edge medical equipment, nervous system disease’s equipment (in diagnosis and treatment) which are crucial for every medical center. based on above facts we focused on nervous system treat units’ equipmen...

introduction: over the past 30 years, recognizing the need and importance of training residents in teaching skills has resulted in several resident-as-teacher programs. the purpose of this study was to explore the impact of this teaching initiative and investigate the improvement in residents’ teaching skills through evaluating their satisfaction and perceived effectiveness as well as assessing...