nowadays, hidden markov models are extensively utilized for modeling stochastic processes. these models help researchers establish and implement the desired theoretical foundations using markov algorithms such as forward one. however, using stability hypothesis and the mean statistic for determining the values of markov functions on unstable statistical data set has led to a significant reducti...

background nowadays, productivity and efficiency are considered a culture and a perspective in both life and work environments. this is the starting point of human development. objectives the aim of the present study was to investigate the performance of hospitals affiliated to mashhad university of medical sciences using the pabon lasso model. methods the present study was a descriptive-analyt...

Dukhanin and colleagues’ taxonomy of metrics for patient engagement at the organizational and system levels has great potential for supporting more careful and useful evaluations of this ever-growing phenomenon. This commentary highlights the central importance to the taxonomy of metrics assessing the extent of meaningful participation in decision-making by patients, consumers and community mem...

abstract textbook design and evaluation has recently turned into a very important area in english language teaching. this paper evaluates the english textbooks taught in iranian junior high schools: right path to english which was the medium of instruction until 2013 and the recently designed textbook-prospect- which replaced it. for this purpose, tucker’s (1975) textbook evaluation model was e...

background: there is a global interest for deploying faculty members’ activities evaluation systems, however implementing a fair and reliable system is a challenging issue. in this study, the authors devised a model for evaluation of faculty members’ activities with regard to their viewpoints and meta-evaluation standards. materials and methods: the reliability of the current faculty members’ a...

the aim of this paper is to present a modified version of gam (m-gam) which should showthat the results gained by using this version are more accurate and realistic. the modification is based on theinclusion of tourists and their opinion regarding the importance of indicators in the assessment process. theassessment was done by using both versions of gam and the results were compared and analyz...

in this paper, we present a multi-formalism modeling framework (abbreviated by mfmf) for modeling and simulation. the proposed framework is defined based on the concepts of meta-models and uses object-orientation to overcome the complexities and to enhance the extensibility. the framework can be used as a basis for modeling by various formalisms and to support model composition in a unified man...