Chungmok Lee Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, KAIST, 373-1, Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea, lcm@kaist.ac.kr Kyungsik Lee Department of Industrial & Management Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, 89 Wangsan-ri, Mohyeon-myon, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do 449-791, Republic of Korea, globaloptima@hufs.ac.kr Kyungchul Park College of Business A...

a Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, LJAD, UMR 7351, 06100 Nice, France b CCSE, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd. MS 50A-1148, 94720 Berkeley, CA, USA c Department of Physical Electronics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic d CNRS, UPR 288 Laboratoire EM2C, Grande Voie des Vignes, 92295 Châtenay-Malabry, France e Ecole Centrale ...

there are evidences of the relationship between collaboration rate and quality of articles. the more the number of authors, the more qualified the article. study of the collaboration rate among researchers is essential for strategic planning and research policy in major. the main objective of this research is to determine the authors' collaboration rate in the articles of scientometrics journal...

applying a balanced diet approach to define poverty line, the extent of poverty of the families in the rural vs. urban areas of the karkheh river basin, iran is investigated in the present study. the main source of data is from the household income and expenditure survey figures for years 1983, 1993 and 2004, as provided by the statistical centre of iran. first, a review of different methods of...

background: due to annual increases in cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) in different regions of iran and the resulting health problems and high economic costs, this study was performed with the aim to determine the prevalence of cl in dezful city, iran. materials and methods: this descriptive study was performed on all patients who were directly referred to clinics and clinical laboratories of dezf...

In west Africa, the alarming rate of land use intensification and the assumed deterioration of parkland species calls for assessments of locally valued non-timber forest product (NTFP) yielding populations. This study focused on the baobab tree, Adansonia digitata Linn., in Cinzana, Mali. Here by conducting biological inventories in different land use types and interviews we addressed the follo...

background : skin cancer is the most common malignancy in the world. thus, the aim of this study was to determine the incidence trend of skin cancer in isfahan province, iran. methods: the present cross-sectional study was conducted using data registered during 2004-2008 in the disease management center and cancer registry system of the ministry of health and medical education. the trend of ski...

this study was conducted in khorasan-razavi during 23 months (since february 2004 to december 2005). the samples (83 samples) of suspected farms were collected from tongue and mouth epithelium and tested by indirect sandwich elisa and rt-pcr. during the study, twelve foci during the year 2004 and 23 foci during the year 2005 (up to december) were approved. maximum distribution of fmd foci was o...

Adamantane-resistant influenza A is an emerging problem, but infections caused by resistant and susceptible viruses have not been compared. We identified adamantane resistance in 47% of 152 influenza A virus (H3N2) isolates collected during 2005. Resistant and susceptible viruses caused similar symptoms and illness duration. The prevalence of resistance was highest in children.

During 2004, 49 states and Puerto Rico reported 6,836 cases of rabies in nonhuman animals and 8 cases in human beings to the CDC, representing a 4.6% decrease from the 7,170 cases in nonhuman animals and 3 cases in human beings reported in 2003. Approximately 92% of the cases were in wildlife, and 8% were in domes­ tic animals (compared with 91% and 9%, respectively, in 2003). Relative contribu...