background: various decisions have been made on technology application at all levels of the health system in different countries around the world. health technology assessment is considered as one of the best scientific tools at the service of policy- makers. this study attempts to investigate the current challenges of iran’s health technology assessment and provide appropriate strategies to es...

Nationally oriented scientific-scholarly journals are considered from a methodological-informetric viewpoint, analysing data extracted Scimago Journal Rank based on Scopus. An operational definition is proposed of journal’s degree national orientation the geographical distribution its publishing or citing authors, and role international collaboration country’s total publication output discussed...

material hazards are the most important risk in scientific laboratories. in risk assessment processing, the potential impact of assessor personal judgment is the most important issue. this study tried to develop a risk assessment pattern based on failure mode and effect analysis (fmea) and analytical hierarchy process (ahp) logics and empirical data in scientific laboratories. the most importan...

Discovery-driven experiments in undergraduate laboratory courses have been shown to increase student learning and critical thinking abilities. To this end, a lab module involving worm capture by a nematophagous fungus was developed. The goals of this module are to enhance scientific understanding of the regulation of worm capture by soil-dwelling fungi and for students to attain a set of establ...