dr. mohammad aazami

Knowledge sharing is a critical issue for organizations. They define it as the activities for transferring and distributing knowledge from one person, group, or organization to another person, group or organization. Thus, this study has been conducted aiming at investigating the effective factors on knowledge sharing among faculty members of Kerman University of Medical Sciences. The present study is an analytical kind of survey research instruments includes a researcher-made questionnaire which is based on the theory of planned behavior. The population of this study includes 395 participants from faculty members of Kerman University of Medical Sciences out of whom the sample size of 120 participants was determined using co relational coefficient. In order to analyze data descriptive statistics, frequency distribution, percentage, variance, mean, and standard deviation were used and at the level of inferential statistics general linear model was used. The analysis conducted by SPSS 16 software. Findings: The results showed that there is no significant relationship between the attitude and the intention of knowledge sharing but there is a positive and significant relationship of mental norms and perceived behavioral control with the faculty members' intention of knowledge sharing. There is no significant relationship between demographic information (including age, gender, college location, academic ranking, academic degree, and teaching experience) and attitude and mental norms but based on the ranking of the participants, significant relationship has been observed of demographic information and perceived behavioral control with the intention of knowledge sharing. The results showed that the theory of planned behavior has been effective regarding the expression of the effective factors on knowledge sharing, and in order to promote knowledge sharing behavior of faculty members of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, it is necessary for educational and research administrators of the university to apply remedial measures in their agenda for the improvement of faculty members' attitude. In addition to elements of this theory, some of intervening variables like academic ranking of faculty members can influence on the intention of knowledge sharing.

Introduction/ Scientific databases are one of the most important and useful resources. Users retrieve the needed information through the user interface of such databases. This study aimed at evaluating the understandability of the elements of the interface environments of Ebsco, Proquest, ScienceDirect databases. This study was conducted through a mixed method. Data gathering instruments included checklists, log files, and thinking-aloud protocols. The population included 30 graduate and post graduate students in two majors, Humanities/Social science, and Basic Sciences /Engineering at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Descriptive and analytical statistics were used for analysing the quantitative data and content analysis was applied to qualitative data. Findings showed that most elements of the user interface are understandable to the students. Users’ awareness of the elements in the interfaces was also higher than the average. In addition, all students used the interface elements objectively based on Ellis’ information seeking behavior model. The results of testing the hypotheses revealed that there was no significant difference the students’ information seeking behavior in terms of the features of Ellis’s model (starting, chaining, browsing, differentiating, monitoring and extracting).

The aim of the present study was to assess the growth pattern (obesity, overweight, and thinness) among 6 to11 year-old schoolchildren in Kermanshah, Iran during 2010. A cross-sectional study was performed in a randomly selected population of 1400 elementary school students. Data on weight and height was used to calculate body mass index (BMI). In addition, age, parental education levels, and father's job and employment status of mothers were collected for all children. The BMI cut-offs provided by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the percentiles computed in the population studied were used for the classification of the children and adolescents as underweight (< 5th percentile), normal (5–84th percentile), overweight (85–94th percentile), and obese (≥ 95th percentile). Based on the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) references, stunting were defined by the 3rd percentile. The overall prevalence of overweight was 12.6% and 14.3% for boys and girls, respectively. The overall prevalence of obesity was 13.4% and 8.1% among boys and girls, respectively. The corresponding values for the overall prevalence of thinness were 8.2% and 9.3%. The prevalence of stunting was 5.6% in boys and 8.2% in girls. Children with more educated mothers had a higher prevalence of overweigh than children with less educated mothers. There were significant associations between the growth pattern and father's education level and job. Our findings revealed an increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity and a decreasing trend of thinness among elementary school students in Kermanshah in comparison with the national data.

This study was carried out to assess the information seeking behavior among nurses and to recognize their information needs through analysis of research papers published in this field in international journals. Citation analysis was used. The population under study included the articles in the field of nurses’ information seeking behavior, which were indexed in databases of Pubmed, CINAHL, ScienceDirect, MedLine, ProQuest, Emerald, EBSCO, and the search engine Google scholar during 2000-2009. The obtained results indicate that nurses make use of human resources and medical texts for the purpose of gaining specialized information, making their personal knowledge up-to-date, meet the clinical needs of patients such as prevention, identification, treatment, and obtaining drugs information. Consulting their colleagues and physicians and analyzing the patients’ profiles are the most important information resources for nurses. Evidence-based nursing pattern is the common information seeking pattern among nurses. The nurses’ motivations for information seeking are answering the patients’ questions and resolving the ambiguities in specialized texts and patients’ profiles. The most significant barriers against nurses’ information seeking include lack of time, unavailability of resources, being too much busy, lack of necessary information seeking skills, and unfamiliarity with information resources. Relying on the information given by colleagues, as well as paying insufficient attention to specialized texts in their field and electronic information resources are among the major challenges of information seeking behavior in this field.Originality/Value: Information flow and its desirable use in an information society are dependent on the adaptability between information and users. Furthermore, a main challenge for nurses is to make immediate and precise decisions in emergency. The findings of this study can be informative in future programming for meeting the information needs, efficient use of information resources, and identification of common pattern of information seeking among nurses.