background and objectives : there are limitations in time and technique for isolation of brucella from patients. we developed a new brucella culture medium and evaluated its efficiency compared to bactec blood culture system and serology. materials and methods: a bi-phasic medium containing urea agar and brain heart infusion was formulated. appearance of clear red color in liquid phase was the ...

Twitter is today’s most popular micro-blogging service on the Social Web. As people discuss various fresh topics, Twitter messages (tweets) can tell much about the current interests and concerns of a user. In this paper, we introduce TUMS, a Twitter-based User Modeling Service, that infers semantic user profiles from the messages people post on Twitter. It features topic detection and entity ex...

BACKGROUND Health system pharmacies, like other health care professional, practice under a number of mandated standards. Basic concepts of quality assurance (QA) standards should be applied to hospital pharmacy practice. The survey reported here is to assess QA system implementation and its standard indicators observation in Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) hospitals' pharmacies in ...

Timed usage models (TUMs) represent a model-based statistical approach for system testing of real-time embedded systems. They enable an automatic test case generation and the calculation of parameters that aid the test process. However, a classical TUM only supports sequential uses of the system under test (SUT). It is not capable of dealing with concurrency, which is required for state of the ...

Organizational behaviors are commonly acknowledged as fundamentals of organizational life that strongly influence both formal and informal organizational processes, interpersonal relationships, work environments, and pay and promotion policies. The current study aims to investigate political behavior tendencies among employees of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). This cross-sectiona...

BACKGROUND Residents play an important role in the delivery of hospital care. They regularly work overnight, in emergency situations and with workload and stress which can affect their performance and quality of working life (QWL). This study explores the QWL and its contributory factors in residents working at hospitals affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran...

Maintenance scheduling of generating units is considered one of the vital power system problem for providing power in a reliable and economic way. In order to improve the overall availability of the generating units, chances of capacity shortage is to be reduced by performing preventive maintenance at regular intervals. In this paper, Hybrid integer coded Water Wave Optimization (HWWO) Algorith...

BACKGROUND It is important to focus on creating opportunities for patients' participation at all levels of health systems in order to promote their ability to improve patient safety and quality of services. The general aim of this study was to determine patient safety level in Tehran University of Medical Sciences' (TUMS) general hospitals, Tehran, Iran from patients' perspective and to determi...

Background: Psychological capital with components of hope, self efficacy, optimism, and resiliency has been recently proposed to bring positive psychology to the workplace. Objectives: We investigated Psychological Capital states of employees of the Tehran university of medical sciences (TUMS) headquarter offices in Tehran, Iran. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive and analyti...