background hospitals are highly resource-dependent settings, which spend a large proportion of healthcare financial resources. the analysis of hospital efficiency can provide insight into how scarce resources are used to create health values. this study examines the technical efficiency (te) of 12 teaching hospitals affiliated with tehran university of medical sciences (tums) between 1999 and 2...

of this project, a hardware monitor is being developed to observe the SAN traffic. This hardware monitor is therefore capable of delivering detailed information about the run-time communication behaviour of applications run on SMiLE clusters. The central part of this monitor consists of a content-addressable counter array managing a small working set of the most recently referenced memory regio...

goal-conformity to a certain pattern-to which special moral value is auached.2 I will begin by distinguishing what seem to me to be the fundamental moral reasons lying behind our objections to various forms of inequality. I will then illustrate these ideas by showing how they figure in various ways in Rawls's views about distributive justice. Finally, I will return to examine one of these value...

The principal investigators would like to thank their collaborators, research assistants and master students which were incorporated in the research project and essentially contribute to the planned assignments. These are the PhD students Wolfgang Bier (UniK), Ulrich Heisserer (TUM), and Magda Martins-Wagner (UniBW München) as well as the students Idit Cohen, Shachar Koen, and Alexander Ripp. F...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory had been fulfilled and to compare the Maslow's hierarchy of needs among Iranian different ethnic groups at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). METHODS This research was a descriptive-analytical study which conducted among administrative employees of Tehran University of Medical Sciences; ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the data of trauma patients with thoracic injury in the earthquake of Bam admitted to hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Science (TUMS) for better understanding the type and consequence of thoracic injuries in a major earthquake. METHODS After Bam earthquake registering 6.5 on the Richter scale, 526 trauma patients were admitted to hospitals of TUMS. Among them, 53...

The promotion of cycling is of great importance for fostering sustainable and healthy modes of transport in urban areas. For this reason, many cities around the world organize biking competitions in order to motivate citizens to commute by bike. The success of such campaigns appears to demonstrate the positive effects of using playful settings for encouraging a specific type of behavior; howeve...

b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b Abstract This report gives an overview of Prof. Lipsky's contribution to our current project on traac statistics during his stay at TUM in June and July 1997. It covers the background review on modeling techniques for self-similar behavior and our latest article on demonstrating the importance of power-tail distributions for such a modeling approach. We pri...

BACKGROUND The knowledge translation self-assessment tool for research institutes (SATORI) was designed to assess the status of knowledge translation in research institutes. The objective was, to identify the weaknesses and strengths of knowledge translation in research centres and faculties associated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). METHODS The tool, consisting of 50 state...

Nowadays, improvement of thinking skills of students is one of the universally supported aims in the majority of medical schools. This study aims to design longitudinal theme of reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making into the undergraduate medical curriculum at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). A participatory approach was applied to design the curriculum during 2009-2011. T...