OBJECTIVE The study aimed to determine the willingness to receive the Influenza A(H1N1) vaccine and its determinants in a large group of university students. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a self-administered questionnairre based cross-sectional study. Students being educated at health and non-health faculties were invited to participate in this attitude survey. RESULTS A total of 974 studen...

the main objective of this research was to analyze the barriers of implementing the total quality management (tqm) in agricultural faculties in the universities of north west of iran. the kind of research method of the study was an analytical- explanatory one. the statistical population of the study consisted of all the faculty members in agricultural faculties in the universities of north west...

As noted above, the issue of mid-level health workers was addressed in the Pick report of 2001. The decision to establish mid-level medical workers was taken in December 2002 at MinMec (now called the National Health Council) and confirmed in January 2004. Investigations and consultations have taken place since then with a wide range of stakeholders and role players including the health science...

BACKGROUND The main objective of this study was to determine the perceptions of Iranian nurse educators and students regarding the evaluation of teaching effectiveness in university-based programs. METHODS An exploratory descriptive design was employed. 143 nurse educators in nursing faculties from the three universities in Tehran, 40 undergraduate, and 30 graduate students from Tehran Univer...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the performance of the faculties of Islamic Azad University of Zahedan Branch based on two-component (teaching and research) decision making units (DMUs) in data envelopment analysis (DEA). Nowadays it is obvious that most of the systems as DMUs do not act as a simple inputoutput structure. Instead, if they have been studied more delicately, they include net...

Image understanding and image semantics processing have recently become an issue of critical importance in computer vision R&D. Biological vision has always considered them as an enigmatic mixture of perceptual and cognitive processing faculties. In its impetuous and rash development, computer vision without any hesitations has adopted this stance. I will argue that such a segregation of image ...

Aim of Study. To investigate dental anxiety levels among university students and its relation with their specialty and gender. Materials and Methods. 850 undergraduate university students were recruited into the study. The Modified Corah Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) was used to measure the levels of their dental anxiety. 700 questionnaires were returned, 390 females and 310 males (response rate ...

In this article we discuss the problem of finding an interpretation of quantum mechanics which provides an objective account of physical reality. In the first place we discuss the problem of interpretation and analyze the importance of such an objective account in physics. In this context we present the problems which arise when interpreting the quantum wave function within the orthodox formula...

As the prime unification of Darwinism and genetics, the Modern Synthesis continues to epitomize mainstay evolutionary theory. Many decades after its formulation, its anchor assumptions remain fixed: conflict between macro organic organisms and selection at that level represent the near totality of any evolutionary narrative. However, intervening research has revealed a less easily appraised cel...

BACKGROUND Universities worldwide are seeking objective measures for the assessment of their faculties' research products to evaluate them and to attain prestige. Despite concerns, the impact factors (IF) of journals where faculties publish have been adopted. RESEARCH OBJECTIVE The study aims to explore conditions created within five countries as a result of policies requiring or not requirin...