The present study was an attempt to explore the Iranian medical staff’s perception of the All Saints TV series. 199 participants including doctors, nurses, interns, and paramedics took part in this survey study which...The present study was an attempt to explore the Iranian medical staff’s perception of the All Saints TV series. 199 participants including doctors, nurses, interns, and paramedics took part in this survey study which was done in 2011. A 17-item Likert scale questionnaire was developed by the team of researchers to gather further evidence on the issues raised by the participants in the focus group which was formed in order to delve into their thoughts, attitudes, and feelings about the mentioned program. The supportive and non-blaming nature of the working relationship among the treatment team, their respect for the patients, their strong team work, the accuracy and precision of the presented medical information, and the discipline and sense of responsibility on the part of the medical staff were among the most frequent issues being mentioned and noticed by the participants. In addition, the majority of the participants considered the demonstrated model for providing healthcare services to be an efficient one;however, they believed that it was not possible to apply that model in the Iranian hospitals mainly due to the cultural differences between the two contexts and the current regulations in Iran. The participants were also observed to be only moderately satisfied with the system they were working in. It seems that healthcare systems in the developed countries can be used as models to identify the problems with the existing healthcare system in Iran. Authorities need to take appropriate measures to resolve such problems. The possible solutions and actions have been suggested in the present article.展开更多
Located on the foothills of Alborz mountains,in northern Iran,the city of Tehran is surrounded by many active faults that have caused destructive earthquakes in the past.Two earthquakes magnitudes 4.1 and 3.6 occurred...Located on the foothills of Alborz mountains,in northern Iran,the city of Tehran is surrounded by many active faults that have caused destructive earthquakes in the past.Two earthquakes magnitudes 4.1 and 3.6 occurred on 13th August 2015,known as Javadabad earthquakes,affected the SE Alborz region near Tehran.In this study,we relocated 780 events with magnitude 2.0 and larger that occurred during 1996-2015,which provides an enhanced image of seismicity in the region.We manually re-picked 6845 P-wave and 4675 S-waves arrival times on 41 seismic stations encompassing the SE Alborz regions.We then used our arrival times to relocate the earthquakes using a probabilistic method.Then we focus on improving the picked arrival times by cross-correlating the waveforms of P-and S-waves for event pairs with similar waveforms.The differential times of event pairs for all observations were weighted based on the quality of correlations.We computed more than 220,000 and 140,000 differential times for P-and S-wave records,respectively,and selected pairs of waveforms with coefficients of 0.7 or higher.Finally,in order to minimize the effect of inaccurate velocity structure,we applied the double-difference location method.展开更多
文摘The present study was an attempt to explore the Iranian medical staff’s perception of the All Saints TV series. 199 participants including doctors, nurses, interns, and paramedics took part in this survey study which was done in 2011. A 17-item Likert scale questionnaire was developed by the team of researchers to gather further evidence on the issues raised by the participants in the focus group which was formed in order to delve into their thoughts, attitudes, and feelings about the mentioned program. The supportive and non-blaming nature of the working relationship among the treatment team, their respect for the patients, their strong team work, the accuracy and precision of the presented medical information, and the discipline and sense of responsibility on the part of the medical staff were among the most frequent issues being mentioned and noticed by the participants. In addition, the majority of the participants considered the demonstrated model for providing healthcare services to be an efficient one;however, they believed that it was not possible to apply that model in the Iranian hospitals mainly due to the cultural differences between the two contexts and the current regulations in Iran. The participants were also observed to be only moderately satisfied with the system they were working in. It seems that healthcare systems in the developed countries can be used as models to identify the problems with the existing healthcare system in Iran. Authorities need to take appropriate measures to resolve such problems. The possible solutions and actions have been suggested in the present article.
文摘Located on the foothills of Alborz mountains,in northern Iran,the city of Tehran is surrounded by many active faults that have caused destructive earthquakes in the past.Two earthquakes magnitudes 4.1 and 3.6 occurred on 13th August 2015,known as Javadabad earthquakes,affected the SE Alborz region near Tehran.In this study,we relocated 780 events with magnitude 2.0 and larger that occurred during 1996-2015,which provides an enhanced image of seismicity in the region.We manually re-picked 6845 P-wave and 4675 S-waves arrival times on 41 seismic stations encompassing the SE Alborz regions.We then used our arrival times to relocate the earthquakes using a probabilistic method.Then we focus on improving the picked arrival times by cross-correlating the waveforms of P-and S-waves for event pairs with similar waveforms.The differential times of event pairs for all observations were weighted based on the quality of correlations.We computed more than 220,000 and 140,000 differential times for P-and S-wave records,respectively,and selected pairs of waveforms with coefficients of 0.7 or higher.Finally,in order to minimize the effect of inaccurate velocity structure,we applied the double-difference location method.
