OBJECTIVES We sought to identify factors believed to facilitate or hinder evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation in public mental health service systems as a step in developing theory to be tested in future studies. METHODS Focusing across levels of an entire large public sector mental health service system for youths, we engaged participants from 6 stakeholder groups: county officials,...

This keynote paper focuses on the process plans and planning functions as the important link between the features of generations of products/product families and the features, capabilities and configurations of manufacturing systems and components throughout their respective life cycles. The challenges presented by the paradigm shift in manufacturing systems and their increased flexibility and ...

Software engineering is an expensive venture to undertake mainly due to not knowing exactly where to focus the reengineering efforts. This is where coupling and cohesion play an important role. Both the metrics, especially cohesion metric, are a potential identification tools that can also measure progress. The current cohesion metrics for classes overlook the characteristics of indirect usage ...

purpose: the aim of the present research is generally to evaluate the use of the creativity dimensions and components in iran national library website from its users’ point of view. method: we used survey method. research population was composed of 19665 users and 173 librarians of the national library & archives of iran (nlai). the data collecting tool was a questionnaire which was designed by...

Designing and maintaining systems in a dynamic contemporary environment requires a rethinking of how systems provide value to stakeholders over time. Classically, two different approaches to promoting value sustainment may include developing either alterable or robust systems. The first accomplishes value delivery through altering the system to meet new needs, while the second accomplishes valu...

BACKGROUND Students' perspective on education is of crucial importance for its effectivity, but students' opinions are seldom acknowledged by teachers and designers. Student participation in the educational design process could be a suitable tool to better take students' preferences into account. However, for effective participatory design, it is necessary to know whether students have stable p...

In today’s turbulent environment, companies are faced with two principal challenges. On the one hand, it is necessary to produce ever more cost-effectively to remain competitive. On the other hand, factories need to be transformable in order to manage unpredictable changes in the corporate environment. To deal with these different challenges, companies use the philosophy of lean production in t...