The Finnish municipal open care service in Turku applied mobile communication technology in order to cut costs and increase the efficiency of its elderly care. The home help staff was given a number of Nokia Communicators for the purpose of ordering groceries for their elderly and disabled customers. In this paper we present and discuss our empirical findings of the adoption of mobile communica...

This study analyses how political and institutional factors affected the performance of municipalities in improving social welfare in Brazil in the period from 1990 to 2000. The model adopts a stochastic production frontier, conditioned by variables related to the provision costs of services and those that can affect municipal efficiency. The results indicated that we can not reject:1) economie...

BACKGROUND Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a zoonotic disease with global prevalence, which causes considerable health problems and economic losses throughout the world. The aim of this study was to assess the seroepidemiology of CE in Doroud City, Lorestan Province, Iran, considered a neglected endemic location. METHODS An ELISA was performed using recombinant AgB from Apr to Jul 2015 in Lores...

Estonia has one of the most established e-voting systems in the world. Internet voting remote e-voting using the voter’s own equipment was piloted in 2005 [12] (with the first real elections using e-voting being conducted the same year) and has been in use ever since. So far, the Estonian internet voting system has been used for the whole country in three sets of local elections, two European P...

Mahmoud Bahmani, Hannaneh Golshahi, Kourosh Saki, Mahmoud Rafieian-Kopaei*, Bahram Delfan, Tahereh Mohammadi Razi Herbal Medicines Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Medical Plants Research Center, Shahr...

Khaksarian M1, Meshkatosadat MH2, Farzi R3, Safarpour F3 1. Instructor, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences 2. Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic sciences, Lorestan University 3. M.Sc of Physiology, Staff member of Neurology Sciences Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences Abstract Backgr...