Studies in Humanities
Maryam Bastani
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As the manifestations of culture, both legend and myth have a direct and close relationship with the ethnic creativity, and herein, the concept of creativity conveys something as an artistic creation. It may not be correct to assert that both myth and art are two sides of the same coin. Based on the ...
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As the manifestations of culture, both legend and myth have a direct and close relationship with the ethnic creativity, and herein, the concept of creativity conveys something as an artistic creation. It may not be correct to assert that both myth and art are two sides of the same coin. Based on the common intentions and the goals which discriminate these two expressions, one is the method of presentation, i.e., the so-called expressive container between them, and the other is that creativity and the collective conscience is the myth creator and the main parameter of the emergence of the artistic work, is the individual creation, while based on the ultimate goal, both belong to the community and culture. The present research aimed to investigate “the mythical symbols in Nezami’s Khamsa”. After data collection, the mythical symbols were extracted from this source, and then they are categorized and explained based on various themes.
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Mehdi Hedayatnia; Somayeh Sadat Alavian; Milad Kakaie Sarjobi; Hadi Sanaeifard; Saeed Azizi; Salar Derakhshan
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The topic of employee professional development was first addressed by Gardiner et al., 2000 in charge of professional development at York University. This research study aims to investigate the relationship between educational leadership and teacher self-efficacy in the professional development of Shandong ...
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The topic of employee professional development was first addressed by Gardiner et al., 2000 in charge of professional development at York University. This research study aims to investigate the relationship between educational leadership and teacher self-efficacy in the professional development of Shandong elementary school teachers. The research method is descriptive-correlational. The statistical population consists of 1260 Shandong elementary school teachers. To determine the sample size based on Morgan table, a sample of 374 (104 male and 270 female) was selected using a cluster sampling method. Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (one-sample t-test, Pearson correlation, and multivariate regression) were used to analyze the data. The educational Leadership Questionnaire from Standard, the self-efficacy questionnaire, and the teachers' professional development questionnaire was used for data collection. Professors and experts confirmed the validity of the questionnaires. The reliability of the questionnaires was obtained using Cronbach's alpha coefficient for educational leadership (0.92) and the self-efficacy questionnaire (0.78) as well as for professional development (0.97). The results revealed that the educational leadership variable with the highest impact with beta (BETA = 0.49) and self-efficacy with the negligible impact (BETA = 0.14) predict the professional development variable. The mean scores of educational leadership, self-efficacy, and professional development are above average. There is a significant relationship between educational leadership and self-efficacy in professional development.
Studies in Humanities
Kaveh Moradi; Parisa Ghiasi; Zhila Azizi Aliabadi; Hadi Sanaeifard; Somaye Belmaneh; Mehdi Hedayatnia
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Teacher training centers have an effective role in facilitating learning and the effectiveness of the teaching process by offering new curricula tailored to the human dimension. Educational systems, in the transition from quantitative issues and the generalization of education, have inevitably paid attention ...
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Teacher training centers have an effective role in facilitating learning and the effectiveness of the teaching process by offering new curricula tailored to the human dimension. Educational systems, in the transition from quantitative issues and the generalization of education, have inevitably paid attention to the quality issues of educational phenomena and have improved the quality of education through the main factor in an educational system, namely the "teacher". The concept of teacher professional development has emerged since the middle of the twentieth century with the need to implement reforms in educational systems. In generalizing this concept, research findings and comparative study of educational systems have had a great impact. This main contribution of this study is reviewing and determining the desired criteria and characteristics of teachers in the field of information and communication technology with emphasis on e-learning environment in IRAN. ICT means the use of electronic devices such as cameras, video, audio devices, computers And the Internet. In this article, for philosophical, social and psychological reasons, the teacher education curriculum based on information technology (ICT) has been examined. Then, a proposed model of curriculum development based on ICT is discussed and the professional qualifications of teachers are examined.
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Mohammad Khodakaramian; Somaye Belmaneh; Somayeh Sadat Alavian; Hadi Sanaeifard; Zhila Azizi Aliabadi; Mehdi Hedayatnia
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The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of teachers' game education in correcting the operational problems of first-grade elementary students in the west of Asia. This research is quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test designs with an unequal control group. The statistical ...
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The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of teachers' game education in correcting the operational problems of first-grade elementary students in the west of Asia. This research is quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test designs with an unequal control group. The statistical population consisted of all first-grade students of cities in the academic year of 1998-99 with 987 students. The sampling method was multi-stage cluster random sampling, and the research method was quasi-experimental, selected in each group of 10 people. Then, the word game training course was performed in 13 sessions, twice a week, for 30 min. The researcher-made test of operational problems was used to collect data. The results based on the findings revealed that the training course on wordplay is effective in improving the verbal errors related to visual, auditory, and accuracy and attention, as well as non-writing and its significance level, is 0.001. According to the results, wordplay affects errors of elementary school students, When students receive this game, their writing skills and auditory memory will improve, and they will remember things better.
Studies in Humanities
Mojtaba Mahigir
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This study aimed at evaluating the effect of employees’ mental health on responsibility who work in Sarableh Hospital, with the mediating role of service morale. This research was applied in terms of its purpose and nature, descriptive-correlational in terms of method, and field (survey) in data ...
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This study aimed at evaluating the effect of employees’ mental health on responsibility who work in Sarableh Hospital, with the mediating role of service morale. This research was applied in terms of its purpose and nature, descriptive-correlational in terms of method, and field (survey) in data collection. The statistical population in this study includes all staff of the Sarableh Hospital in autumn 2018, and 170 people were selected according to the statistics of the University of Medical Sciences. The required sample size was estimated through the Morgan table as 115 ones who were selected by simple random sampling from the statistical population. For data collection, three mental health questionnaires with a reliability coefficient of 0.448, responsibility with a coefficient of 0.548, and service morale with a coefficient of 0.481 were also used. The structural equation modeling using PLS and SPSS software was utilized to test the hypotheses. The results revealed that mental health positively affects responsibility and accounts for 31% of changes in responsibility variability. It has an indirect effect on responsibility through the mediating variable of service morale, and 36% of the total effect of mental health on responsibility is demonstrated through the mediating variable of service morale.
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Asad Mahdavi Rad; Ahmad Khosravi
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In recent international trade, in particular, and in some domestic transactions, it can generally cause several legal issues with which the existing regulations do not deal with. For this, this article aims to offer solutions in a different interpretation of these rules, including proving that the price ...
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In recent international trade, in particular, and in some domestic transactions, it can generally cause several legal issues with which the existing regulations do not deal with. For this, this article aims to offer solutions in a different interpretation of these rules, including proving that the price non-determination in a lump sum can not always be regarded as a reason for a transaction to be arrogant and void because the custom of such transactions is not mentioned as arrogant and practically. It is common in the community, and after studying the application of other countries' rights and the Convention provisions. Therfore this examination concluded by making two introductions: if a transaction is not from the arrogance viewpoint, it is not void, and the transaction is common recently. Sometimes its price determination has been postponed to the future, indicating such an issue. The need for this research stems from the fact that following the globalization phenomenon, the movement for unifying contract law has impacted the countries’ national laws. Thus, it is essential to remove the necessities and obstacles to the unification of contract law with comparative studies. In this regard, the proposed study examines price determination and its effect on sales in Iranian law and the 1980 Vienna Convention on International Sale
Studies in Humanities
Fatemeh Cheraghian
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This study aimed to compare spiritual intelligence, loneliness, and mental health of mothers of deaf and non-deaf children in Ilam. The statistical population included all mothers of deaf and normal children in Ilam in the academic year of 2016-2017. Likewise, the study sample included 100 mothers of ...
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This study aimed to compare spiritual intelligence, loneliness, and mental health of mothers of deaf and non-deaf children in Ilam. The statistical population included all mothers of deaf and normal children in Ilam in the academic year of 2016-2017. Likewise, the study sample included 100 mothers of deaf kids selected through the available sampling technique.The data collection instruments used in this study were the King spiritual intelligence questionnaire (SISRI), general health questionnaire (GHQ-28), and the third version of the Loneliness Scale (UCLA). The data were analyzed using SPSS software version 23.The results revealed a significant difference between mothers of deaf and non-deaf kids in Ilam in terms of spiritual intelligence, feeling of loneliness, and mental health (t = 0.2). Based on the obtained results of the proposed research, spiritual intelligence plays the leading role in personal beliefs in various fields, particularly in promoting mental health. Therefore, concerning spiritual intelligence and how it deals with the feeling of loneliness and its explanation can assist mothers in realizing the concept of life and solving problems as well as their own and the other perceptions.
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Ahmad Khosravi; Asad Mahdavi Rad
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Civil liability has two branches as the contractual and non-contractual liability. If there is a contract between two or more parties and one of them commits a breach of contract (non-performance; delay in fulfilling the obligation) and the other party suffers damage, the contract’s violator has ...
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Civil liability has two branches as the contractual and non-contractual liability. If there is a contract between two or more parties and one of them commits a breach of contract (non-performance; delay in fulfilling the obligation) and the other party suffers damage, the contract’s violator has a contractual responsibility and should bear the damage. In some cases, where an individual inflicts damage on another without a contract between them, or if there is a contract, the loss is not related to the contract; there is talk of non-contractual liability. Civil liability in the law of obligations is a title to express the legal obligation to compensate for unlawful damages; whether it is a contract’s breach or a violation of the public duty of non-damages otherwise, civil liability has two significant branches from the contract. The purpose of liability is to compensate for unjust loss, which it is a loss argued in the theoretical foundations of liability, and its criteria are based on liability. Compensation for unlawful loss depends on the existence on conditions, among which is the condition of “predictability of loss” and mentioned in both contractual and coercive liability (non-contractual obligations).
Studies in Humanities
Maryam Alivand
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The present study investigates the effect of companies’ age and their intangible resources on the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and companies’ performance in Kalat Mashhad industrial site. The present operational research tries to answer the question of whether the age ...
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The present study investigates the effect of companies’ age and their intangible resources on the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and companies’ performance in Kalat Mashhad industrial site. The present operational research tries to answer the question of whether the age of companies and their intangible resources affect the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and companies’ performance in Kalat Mashhad industrial site.The statistical population of the present study was the financial staff of Kalat industrial site in Mashhad. Using Cochran's formula, 194 people were selected by simple random sampling. Then, research variables were examined using a reliable and valid questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) and path analysis; SPSS 24 and Smart PLS3 software were also used to analyze the data.The results indicated that entrepreneurship has a significant effect on firm performance and its intangible resources. Intangible resources also have a significant effect on firm performance. But firm age did not play a moderating role in the relationship between entrepreneurship and firm performance. Finally, the results showed that intangible resources played a mediating role in the relationship between entrepreneurship and firm performance.
Studies in Humanities
Fatemeh Azizmohammadi; Fatimah Ramezani
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The identity of any nation is concerned with the identity of spiritual and material lives in the territory, and its formation in the children institution of any land depends on their familiarity with the national identity and patriotism of their country. In this regard, based on the latest approach to ...
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The identity of any nation is concerned with the identity of spiritual and material lives in the territory, and its formation in the children institution of any land depends on their familiarity with the national identity and patriotism of their country. In this regard, based on the latest approach to nostalgia, which is the result of the conceptualization and research of the 90s, the proposed scrutiny aimed to study nostalgia in reading textbooks presented to the Iranian primary students. Voice for My Homeland and Liberation from the Cage are mainly among the provided stories in primary textbooks in which the activist has been exiled from his homeland to a cage. In these stories, the actors do not get lost in the different cultural atmospheres of the guest land while preserving their national identity and motherland, and they do their best to get rid of the other and reach the real self. Therefore, through a descriptive-analytical study and some library-based resources, it was attempted to comparatively study nostalgia in the reading textbooks. The results of the study revealed that nostalgia, is a self-related, individual-social emotion that has a dual nature of sadness-happiness combined with a kind of longing for the past evoked by an emotional network resulting from an active or passive external stimulus, the experience of the present link to the experience of memories.
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Fatimah Ramezani; Musa Ahmadian
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Learning English has become one of the urgencies of the current century, and thus acquiring its diverse language skills relies on the development of learners’ abilities in an educational context. In this domain, teachers play a vital role through scaffolding techniques to aid in enhancing pupil’s ...
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Learning English has become one of the urgencies of the current century, and thus acquiring its diverse language skills relies on the development of learners’ abilities in an educational context. In this domain, teachers play a vital role through scaffolding techniques to aid in enhancing pupil’s educational levels in obtaining learning objectives. The proposed study is considered descriptive-analytical based on its methodology and applied for its purpose. Indeed, the research′s primary purpose is to investigate the impact of scaffolding ELT lessons on students in Iran and to provide useful suggestions for improving EFL learners in the underlying context. The sample size is 60 people (male = 30 and female = 30) in the age range of 15-25 years of both genders, which is carried out based on a random sampling method as the approximate statistical population.Furthermore, 30 English teachers of both genders (male = 15 and female = 15) in the age range of 25-40 years old were interviewed to conclude the true condition in the ELT domain, particularly in Iran. It should also be noted that written consent is received from all participants. Data collection was conducted through some methods like observation. The study′s results revealed that scaffolding techniques influence Iran’s EFL context.
Studies in Humanities
Mohammad Saeid Kiani; Leila Nazari
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Today organizations can play their role by focusing on economic responsibility and organizational wealth creation, in line with their social and environmental responsibilities. The present study was conducted on a green management model for an Iranian sports organization; this research applied in terms ...
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Today organizations can play their role by focusing on economic responsibility and organizational wealth creation, in line with their social and environmental responsibilities. The present study was conducted on a green management model for an Iranian sports organization; this research applied in terms of purpose, nature, and method. The statistical population of comprises the study of experts and managers of the Ministry of Sports and Youth of Iran, 70 of whom were selected using the purposive sampling method. Data collection tool which aims to develop a green management model is a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity was confirmed using the content validity method. The research findings in the form of a model consisting of two parts: In the first part, through exploratory study and expert opinion, 14 main factors of green human resource management success were identified. In the second part, using the interpretive-structural modeling approach, sequences between variables were extracted at eight levels and categorized based on the degree of influence and dependence. Considering the results and also the import 