to identify an appropriate index for monitoring and evaluation of drought, rainfall data obtained from meteorological stations of ilam province from 2000 to 2011 and modis satellite images with 16-day intervals were collected and processed. the standardized precipitation index (spi) was calculated based on rainfall data; therefore, the rainfall data were used for measuring spi and satellite ima...

Background The Community Mine Continuation Agreement Middle (CMCA) and South Fly Health Program (the Health Program) is a partnership for improving health service delivery in remote Papua New Guinea (PNG). The Health Program is delivered by a private contractor working in partnership with existing health service providers to improve service delivery using existing government systems, where poss...

background avante zambéziais an initiative of a non-governmental organization (ngo), friends in global health, llc (fgh) and the vanderbilt institute for global health (vigh) to provide technical assistance to the mozambican ministry of health (moh) in rural zambézia province. avante zambézia developed a district level health management mentorship (hmm) program to strengthen health systems in t...

This study aimed at identifying the most frequent test-taking strategies used by successful Iranian male and female university entrance exam EFL applicants. To this end, 150 English major male and female freshman students who got admission to three reputable state universities of Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tehran were selected conveniently and purposively. The model used in this study was developed b...

power transformers provide a vital link between the generation and distribution of produced energy. such static equipment is subjected to abuse during operation in generation and distribution stations and leads to catastrophic failures. this paper reviewed the techniques in the field of condition monitoring of power transformers in recent years. transformer monitoring and diagnosis are the effe...

Self-evaluations of program impact, notably subjective evaluations of the e¤ects of training, are wide-spread in both the public and the private sector – probably because self-evaluations o¤er an easy and low-cost alternative to rigorous experimental or econometric evaluations. In this paper, I analyze how subjective assessments of satisfaction with training compare to objective measures based ...