in planning any vaccination program, priority should be given to such programs within the country’s overall health plan. this judgment is made on the basis of indices on morbidity, mortality, vulnerability, feasibility and cost-benefit/effectiveness analyses. the application of mathematical / epidemiological models and the use of simulation and goal –seeking techniques and monograms are of grea...

intervention in early childhood development as one of the social determinants of health, is important for reducing social gap and inequity. in spite of increasingly developing intensive neonatal care wards and decreasing neonatal mortality rate, there is no follow up program in iran. this study was carreid out to design high risk infants follow up care program with the practical aim of creating...

the study was conducted to determine the effective factors in nutritional management knowledge and design a proper educational plan for broiler farmers in garmsar township. the used methodological approach was descriptive-correlation. eighty-eight questionnaires were collected and analyzed of 98broiler farmers active in garmsar. the content and face validity of the questionnaires and reliabilit...

with the development of restructured power systems and increase of prices in some hours of day and increase fuel price, demand response programs were noticed more by customers. demand response consists of a series of activities that governments or utilities design to change the amount or time of electric energy consumption, to achieve better social welfare or some times for maximizing the benef...

background recently, parenting programs to address behavioural and emotional problems associated with child maltreatment in developing countries have received much attention. there is a paucity of literature on effective parent education interventions in the local context of pakistan. this study aimed to assess the feasibility of offering a 6-week parenting program for mothers of pre-school chi...

background performance evaluation is essential to quality improvement in healthcare. the current study has identified the potential pros and cons of external healthcare evaluation programs, utilizing them subsequently to look into the merits of a similar case in a developing country.   methods a mixed method study employing both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis techniqu...

accurate prediction of pollution control and environmental protection need a good understanding of pollutant dynamics. numerical model techniques are important apparatus in this research area. so a 2500 line fortran 95 version code was conducted in which using approximate riemann solver, couples the shallow water and pollution transport agents in two dimensions by the aid of unstructured meshes...

the manning roughness coefficient is an important parameter in the design and evaluation of furrow irrigation. despite its importance, estimation of this parameter for surface irrigation is very difficult, particularly in furrow irrigation. in this study, an evalue model was used to estimate the manning roughness coefficient in furrow irrigation. the model was based on volume balance and develo...