background: it is the responsibility of each occupational therapist to always act ethically and professionally in a clinical setting. however, there is little information available concerning the factors influencing ethical behavior of occupational therapists at work. since no study has been conducted in iran on this topic, this qualitative study aimed to identify the factors influencing ethica...

For some time now, the relationship between university and private enterprise has been receiving increasing attention, both from research policy planners and managers, with a view to enhancing cooperation, and from researchers analysing and seeking to improve and make such collaboration more effective through networking. The European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme, for instance, designed a s...

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Activity-based costing (ABC) and the theory of constraints (TOC) represent alternative paradigms for evaluating the economic consequences of production-related decisions. However, their application can lead to contradictory productmix decisions. To resolve this con#ict, it is frequently suggested that the TOC is appropriate for the short run, while ABC is appropriate for the longer term. This p...

We study the problem of constructing a cost-effective regular cover of a strip with identical sectors. Three effective coverage models are considered and their comparative analysis is performed which allows to obtain an upper bound for the minimum number of the sectors per unit length of the strip.

Prosperity indicators (also met as welfare indexes) constitute an important metric towards assessing the level of prosperity in modern communities and/or countries. The document at hand aims at a thorough search, study and recording of various prosperity indicators (e.g. Gross Domestic Product GDP) used in European and global scale, as well as of the underlying data. The document examines and a...