Study the factors affecting the choice of higher education nonprofit institutions from candidate’s view (Case study: Preuniversity students in Qaemshahr)

This study was conducted to investigate the factors affecting the choice of higher education nonprofit institutions by pre-university students in Qaemshahr.From the population of the study 3176 people is randomly selected and a questionnaire was used to collect data that its reliability is 91/0 and its validity was approved by using the same external research and opinions of experts and university professors, finally, data from 320 students were analyzed by using SPSS software. Toanalyze the data t-test and Friedman test was used. The results show that among the studied variables,  including economic factors, factors related to the university, personal factors and social factors, economic factors are most important to students and social factors are the least important.Key words: economic factors, factors related to the university, personal factors, social  factors, higher education non-profit institution

Progress towards Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) implementation in Iran: obstacles and bottlenecks

Background: Neonatal mortality accounts for more than 47 of deaths among children under five globally but proper care at and around the time of birth could prevent about two-thirds of these deaths. The Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) offers a plan and vision to improve and achieve equitable and high-quality care for mothers and newborns. We applied the bottleneck analysis tool offered by ENAP to identify obstacles and bottlenecks hindering the scale-up of newborn care across seven health system building blocks. Methods: We applied the every newborn bottleneck analysis tool to identify obstacles hindering the scale-up of newborn care across seven health system building blocks. We used qualitative methods to collect data from five medical universities and their corresponding hospitals in three provinces. We also interviewed other national experts, key informants, and stakeholders in neonatal care. In addition, we reviewed and qualitatively analyzed the performance report of neonatal care and services from 16 medical universities around the country. Results: We identified many challenges and bottlenecks in the scale-up of newborn care in Iran. The major obstacles included but were not limited to the lack of a single leading and governing entity for newborn care, insufficient financial resources for neonatal care services, insufficient number of skilled health professionals, and inadequate patient transfer. Conclusions: To address identified bottlenecks in neonatal health care in Iran, some of our recommendations were as follows: establishing a single national authorizing and leading entity, allocating specific budget to newborn care, matching high-quality neonatal health care providers to the needs of all urban and rural areas, maintaining clear policies on the distribution of NICUs to minimize the need for patient transfer, and using the available and reliable private sector NICU ambulances for safe patient transfer. © 2021, The Author(s)

Design of robust and high-performance 1-Bit CMOS full adder for nanometer design

Full-adders are the core element of the complex arithmetic circuits like addition, multiplication, division and exponentiation. Regarding to this importance, new idea and investigations for constructing full-adders are required. As far as related literature is concerned, generality and ease of use, as well as voltage and transistor scaling are considerable advantages of CMOS logic design versus other design style such as CPL specially when cell-based design are targeted. This paper proposes a novel, symmetric and efficient design for a CMOS 1-bit full-adder. Besides, another fully symmetric full-adder has been presented. Results and simulations demonstrate that the proposed design leads to an efficient full-adder in terms of power consumption, delay and area in comparison to a well-known conventional full-adder design. The postlayout simulations have been done by HSPICE with nanometer scale transistors considering all parasitic capacitors and resistors