background: one way to improve the performance of hospitals, the largest resource-consuming units in the healthcare sector, is to continuously evaluate their performance.objective: the current study assessed the performance of hospitals affiliated with the kurdistan university of medical sciences using data envelopment analysis (dea).methods: this retrospective descriptive-analytic study used d...

the impact of the management performance evaluation methods on the information quality in accounting will be studied in this paper. the information plays two roles in the market-oriented economies; first, it allows the investors to evaluate the potential opportunities of the investment (prospective role) and, secondly, it enables the investors to monitor how to allocate and use their capital by...

introduction: the purpose of this research was to evaluate the performance of the hospitals’ managers affiliated to medical university of isfahan by data envelopment analysis (dea) method. also since some attributes of performance are qualitative, analytical hierarchy process (ahp) method was used also to quantify the data. methods: this research was practical in purpose and descriptive-analyti...

Most evaluations of novel authentication mechanisms have been conducted under laboratory conditions. We argue that the results of short-term usage under laboratory conditions do not predict user performance “in the wild”, because there is insufficient time between enrolment and testing, the number of authentications is low, and authentication is presented as a primary task, rather then the seco...

Planning of complex activities is a deliberative process and automation support for re-planning activities should provide for cognitive modeling of the planning process. One approach for modeling military planning systems is to partition the process into separable components and analyze the components individually. This paper takes the position that the cognitive model should contain details of...

Modeling pavement performance by combining field and experimental data The accurate prediction of pavement performance is important for efficient management of the surface transportation infrastructure. By reducing the error of the pavement deterioration prediction, agencies can obtain significant budget savings through timely intervention and accurate planning. The goal of this research was to...

Mobile technologies have yet to be widely adopted by the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry despite being one of the major growth areas in computing in recent years. This lack of uptake in the AEC industry is likely due, in large part, to the combination of small screen size and inappropriate interaction demands of current mobile technologies. This paper discusses the s...