We analyse the role of European development financial institutions (DFIs) in supporting innovation by empirically investigating impact their participation as investors equity deals on target firms' patenting activity. build a unique international data set and firm-level years 2007–2019. Econometric results highlight positive contribution DFIs mobilizing finance to support innovation, magnitude ...

Palliative care is a series of actions aiming to offer support to parents and their infants in order to improve their quality of life. Despite optimal outcomes, the provision of palliative care for infants and achieving these outcomes may be hardly feasible. The present study aimed to investigate the barriers to palliative care and gain insight into the solutions. Accordingly, the obstacles wer...

Traditional medicine are used by some 60% of worlds population and in some countries are extensiveingly incorporated into the public health system. There are two types of evidence that can be used to support claims on traditional medicine; scientific evidence and traditional use. Long hystorical use of traditional medocine provide the safty and efficacy of it but it is not enough without enough...

background: the iranian healthcare system is primarily an insurance based system. this structure has an important influence on the efficiency and equity of the provision of healthcare in iran. this paper reviews the history of the iranian healthcare system and the impact of the iranian health insurance system on healthcare performance based on the results of interviews with key opinion leaders ...

Traditional medicine are used by some 60% of worlds population and in some countries are extensiveingly incorporated into the public health system. There are two types of evidence that can be used to support claims on traditional medicine; scientific evidence and traditional use. Long hystorical use of traditional medocine provide the safty and efficacy of it but it is not enough without enough...

social health is important to be assessed as a dimension of health. the aim of study was to determine domains and sub-domains of individual social health of iranians.this study was carried out with a qualitative approach, using thematic content analysis. twenty five experts participated in interviews, using individual semi-structured interviews between november 2010 and june 2011.this data supp...

this study aimed to identify an investigation on barriers warm water fish culture from point of view of aqua culturist in golestan province. study was a descriptive survey. ¬¬t¬he statistical population of the study consisted of all 147 aqua culturist and all of them were selected using census method. information was gathered through a questionnaire which its face validity was confirmed by expe...

A long running challenge in both large and small organizations has been aligning information systems services with business needs. Good alignment is assumed to lead to good business results, but there is a need for good instruments to assess strategic alignment and business success in practice. Based on existing information management theories, we develop the I-Fit model and the I-Fit tool. The...