Arman Ghaysvandi; Fardin Mostafaei
Volume 1, Issue 1 , January 2012, , Pages 1-18
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This study investigates satellite impact on people's beliefs and attitudes (Saqez city). Mass media and particularly satellite have an important role in as modern communication-cultural channels informing and apprising the people, establishing norms and behavior patterns, etc. as well as the main educational, ...
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This study investigates satellite impact on people's beliefs and attitudes (Saqez city). Mass media and particularly satellite have an important role in as modern communication-cultural channels informing and apprising the people, establishing norms and behavior patterns, etc. as well as the main educational, advertising, culture, forming public beliefs levers and main components to make identity and civilization. On the other hand, it can be used as a tool for west's cultural invasion, bad moral training, destructing beliefs of national, ideological and social values, examples of promiscuity, weakening social trust, normalizing violation, raising consumer and dependent communities as. Therefore this study looks for determination and pathology of the amount of satellite use, relationship between satellite programs and people's interests as well as presenting some strategies to prevent these damages. This study is a survey and the used method is a combination of descriptive and correlational method. Needed information was collected using questionnaire and for the study literature, library references and archival documents were gathered. Analyzing the research theories and principles shows that, increasing people's tendency to satellite programs such as music, series, movie, etc. has affected the people's behavior and culture as well as lack of welcome for internal channels because of the poor quality of the programs.
Ali Reza Sayyaf Zadeh; Mehdi Asadi Doborjy
Volume 2, Issue 1 , January 2013, , Pages 1-9
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This uneven distribution of outcomes in relation to private and public transportation vehicles with a focus on low and moderate traffic is in Kermanshah. The overall objective of this study was to investigate the effect of spatial inequality as one of the most important aspects of the transport network ...
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This uneven distribution of outcomes in relation to private and public transportation vehicles with a focus on low and moderate traffic is in Kermanshah. The overall objective of this study was to investigate the effect of spatial inequality as one of the most important aspects of the transport network and the traffic is in Kermanshah. In this study, using one way variance and Duncan's test experience and Independent T 1391 data and application software SPSS and Excel to examine relationships between variables were examined. Results of the traffic in the bus business sector than the residential sector Contrary to public transport vehicles in the residential sector of the commercial sector and Independent t-test showed that the average vehicle traffic is significantly different in the two sectors.
Ehsan Razani; Nor Azizan Bin Idris
Volume 3, Issue 1 , January 2014, , Pages 1-9
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The present paper aims to examine the Sino-Iranian conventional military relationship under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during the years between 2005 and 2013. The study has attempted to briefly answer the question that how Tehran has continued to build stronger defense capability with the help of ...
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The present paper aims to examine the Sino-Iranian conventional military relationship under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during the years between 2005 and 2013. The study has attempted to briefly answer the question that how Tehran has continued to build stronger defense capability with the help of Beijing despite the American hegemonic, anti-Iranian policies. The paper has theoretically adopted a realist approach to International Relations and is methodologically based on document analysis. As the paper argues, despite the Western sanctions and U.S containment strategy against the Islamic Republic, Ahmadinejad's Iran, in line with its look to the East approach to foreign relations, successfully developed its indigenous military technology capability further through cooperation with the emerging powers such as the People's Republic of China on the basis of pragmatic calculations of power and interest.
Amirhasan Susaraie; Marzeyeh Zabihi; Khadijeh Tahmasbi Yasavoli
Volume 4, Issue 1 , January 2015, , Pages 1-11
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The object of this study is to examine the influence of profit quality on wage cost of shareholders based on comparative approaches of high profit quality and low profit quality on accepted company is Tehran stock exchange. in order to achieve research targets ,we have used of 50companies information ...
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The object of this study is to examine the influence of profit quality on wage cost of shareholders based on comparative approaches of high profit quality and low profit quality on accepted company is Tehran stock exchange. in order to achieve research targets ,we have used of 50companies information in which has been accepted in Tehran stock exchange on 8yeras duration(2002-2009)we have used of compound regression analysis on examining the relation among study variables and we have tested the influence of profit quality on earning cost of shareholders by figurative variable. Based on findings, we indicate by increasing profit quality of accepted companies in Tehran stock exchange, the shareholders’ wage cost decreases. The result showed profit quality is influential on decreasing and or increasing shareholders earning cost.
Yadollah Moradi; Amanollah Alimoradi
Volume 5, Issue 1 , January 2016, , Pages 1-8
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One of couple’s duties towards each other is good companionship. Although this task has moral aspect and jurists have expressed different views in this regard, and also it has given legal status in Article 1103 of Civil Code. Since many ...
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One of couple’s duties towards each other is good companionship. Although this task has moral aspect and jurists have expressed different views in this regard, and also it has given legal status in Article 1103 of Civil Code. Since many legal articles have legal basis such as verses and traditions, discussion of extensive jurisprudence reflection on the issue of the statute is undeniable. So this study is conducted about legal- jurisprudence study of good companionship among wife and husband, this study is descriptive type and at the same time it is a citation one and it aims to recognize foundations of verses and traditions of good companionship legal materials, recognizing concepts and meanings of good companionship, identifying duties of the couples and effects of good companionship and it aims to achieve to mentioned goals. Required information was collected through library method, the results suggest that many family laws cannot be interpreted without taking into account common law and its role in interpreting laws is undeniable and, by referring to the jurisprudence sources and exploring different views of jurisprudence, legislator brings a rule that is more accurate and consistent with the society and through this he/she confronts common incorrect practices. On the other hand, because custom is a bed for law enactment and enforcement and custom relationship with society culture is unbroken; in addition to legislator, the cultural institutions of society can be more effective than using law and its penal and legal sanctions with correct culture- building in accordance with the principles of Islam in the context of family.
Maryam Siyavash; Abbass Abolghasemi
Volume 6, Issue 1 , January 2017, , Pages 1-10
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The object of this study is to examine the influence of profit quality on wage cost of shareholders based on comparative approaches of high profit quality and low profit quality on accepted company is Tehran stock exchange. in order to achieve research targets ,we have used of 50companies information ...
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The object of this study is to examine the influence of profit quality on wage cost of shareholders based on comparative approaches of high profit quality and low profit quality on accepted company is Tehran stock exchange. in order to achieve research targets ,we have used of 50companies information in which has been accepted in Tehran stock exchange on 8yeras duration(2002-2009)we have used of compound regression analysis on examining the relation among study variables and we have tested the influence of profit quality on earning cost of shareholders by figurative variable. Based on findings, we indicate by increasing profit quality of accepted companies in Tehran stock exchange, the shareholders’ wage cost decreases. The result showed profit quality is influential on decreasing and or increasing shareholders earning cost.
Simin Daneshvar; Hossein Rezaie Dolatabadi
Volume 7, Issue 1 , January 2018, , Pages 1-11
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Fast changes at workplace have affected behavior and performance in organizations. These transformations make organizations to changes their strategies in order to achieve competitive advantage in business. One of these strategies is focusing on main qualifications and making resources out of organization ...
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Fast changes at workplace have affected behavior and performance in organizations. These transformations make organizations to changes their strategies in order to achieve competitive advantage in business. One of these strategies is focusing on main qualifications and making resources out of organization involved in these activities or in fact it is outsourcing of activities. Outsourcing is effective on performance of organizations as an executive useful and economic tool and its applications are increasing. The goal of this research is to analyze effect of organizational capabilities and knowledge management on strategic success of IT outsourcing in organizations. This research is applicable by its goals and is correlative by it descriptive-survey method and is a field study. Statistical population includes managers and staff working in Mellat Bank of Isfahan whom were about 1300 individuals. In this research sample size was determined by means of limited sample size of population that sample was chosen by random sampling method. Questionnaire was used for data collection and its validity was confirmed by content and construct validity. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was used for measurement of reliability which was calculated 0.86 for organizational capability, 0.84 for knowledge management, 0.84 for outsourcing and 0.93 for the questionnaire. Statistical indexes were used for describing data and compare mean tests and structural equation modeling, were used for test of hypotheses. Amos.20 and SPSS software were used in this research. Results from analysis of findings indicated that organizational capability and knowledge management variables affect outsourcing success and due to regression coefficient in structural equations, knowledge management has direct and indirect effect on IT outsourcing success.
Samaneh Ahmadikhah
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With increasing trend in using the electronic means of communication and trade in the world, the need to enact new laws and regulations with regard to e-commerce law is increasing day by day, where benchmarking of the countries and the leading organizations in this context can be used to provide the ...
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With increasing trend in using the electronic means of communication and trade in the world, the need to enact new laws and regulations with regard to e-commerce law is increasing day by day, where benchmarking of the countries and the leading organizations in this context can be used to provide the measures to encourage the Economic activists and consumers to do their tasks at cyberspace particularly provided with supporting the consumer who are in poor side. In this paper, Comparative Study on Consumer Protection in E-Commerce Law within Iran and European Union has been proposed. The observations, with regard to the studies show that based upon the international character of electronic commerce law and the role of UNCITRAL model law on e-commerce (1996) in Unification of it at international level, this law which includes consumer protection has been also provided with the same basis throughout the world. Nevertheless, the countries and organizations like the European Union with adoption of instructions have made large effort in going through this e-commerce law to get it completed by which developing countries like Iran can get to use such law.
Saeed Ketabi; Ali Sadeghi
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Using caption in teaching English as a second language has had its particular advocates throughout the history of language teaching. The present study intends to examine the potential effectiveness of captioned inputs for comprehension of English idiomatic expressions among EFL intermediate learners. ...
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Using caption in teaching English as a second language has had its particular advocates throughout the history of language teaching. The present study intends to examine the potential effectiveness of captioned inputs for comprehension of English idiomatic expressions among EFL intermediate learners. It is set to determine how captioned inputs result in comprehension of English idiomatic expressions in comparison with non-captioned inputs. To this end, the Oxford Placement Test (OPT) was administered to 82 students in an English Institute of Shahrekord, Iran, to find out their English proficiency levels. The participants took a test of 40 multiple-choice items as a pretest to determine their background knowledge in English idioms. The questionnaire data revealed that learners who used captions could promote their attention and improved their learning processing. A reliable posttest was administered after teaching fifteen units of their English textbook during 15 weeks. The mean score by Kolmogorov-Smirnov showed the group using captioned slides of English idiomatic expressions outperformed the other group.
Studies in Humanities
Munirah A A Alduraywish
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The overall purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of correctional education programs in America generally, and in the state of Georgia, specifically, and its role to decrease post-release prisoners’ recidivism. In addition, relying on labeling theory, this study aims to explore ...
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The overall purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of correctional education programs in America generally, and in the state of Georgia, specifically, and its role to decrease post-release prisoners’ recidivism. In addition, relying on labeling theory, this study aims to explore how the understanding of this theory could help reduce the stigma toward the educated ex-prisoners, who received educational programs while in prison. The basic design of this study was meta-analysis method. The researcher conducted a comprehensive literature search for published and unpublished studies released between 1980 and 2011. A correlation between recidivism reduction and participation in correctional education programs. The correctional education programs can help ex-prisoners start their lives after release; also, offenders who participated in education programs while incarcerated showed lower rates of recidivism, and they get a higher salary than other uneducated ex-prisoners.
Younes Badavar nahandi; Mehdi Alinezhad sarokolaei; Sima Ghasemi
Volume 1, Issue 2 , March 2012, , Pages 70-82
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Auditor’s opinion is useful tools for making decisions by the users of financial statements. The ability of financial statements in providing effective information on auditing opinion and their relation with auditor’s opinion has attracted many researchers. Thus, this study evaluates ...
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Auditor’s opinion is useful tools for making decisions by the users of financial statements. The ability of financial statements in providing effective information on auditing opinion and their relation with auditor’s opinion has attracted many researchers. Thus, this study evaluates the ability of cash flows in predicting auditor ’s opinion using cash flows of 83 accepted companies in Stock Exchange of Tehran from 2003-2010. This study is post-event with applied goals. Here, auditor’s opinion is a dependent variable in accepted and qualified groups and cash flow ratio are independent variables in 5 ratios of cash flows to assets, cash flows to sale, cash flows to stockholders’ equity, operational earning to cash flows, net profit to cash flows; company size, auditing fee, and the type of auditing institute are classified control variables. The correlation of financial ratios with auditor’s opinion was examined using one main hypothesis and 5 alternative hypotheses. To test hypotheses, logistic regression and discriminate analysis methods were used. The results showed that using both methods, except for the ratio of cash flows to stockholders’ equity, other ratios of cash flow are correlated with auditor’s opinion and are able to predict auditor’s opinion.
Studies in Social Science
Sayda Mahmuda; Zubaidur Rahman
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Background: This research study aims to assess the vulnerability of female domestic workers in Bangladesh. Methods: The present study applied a multistage random sampling technique where district and upazila were selected purposively, whereas unions, villages, and respondents were selected using ...
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Background: This research study aims to assess the vulnerability of female domestic workers in Bangladesh. Methods: The present study applied a multistage random sampling technique where district and upazila were selected purposively, whereas unions, villages, and respondents were selected using simple random sampling techniques. 200 female domestic workers were selected as a sample using a simple random sampling technique. A five-point Likert scale was applied to rank the challenges faced by female domestic workers in the study area.Findings: Analyzing the marital status of domestic worker, it is seen that 49% of the domestic workers were married while 25% of respondents were separated, and 11% of the respondents were divorced. Findings suggest that 34% of the employer provides breakfast to female domestic worker, whereas 29% of respondents did not get any food support from the employer's side. Findings obtained from this study demonstrated that the average working day per month was 27.09 days. About 57% of domestic workers work on an average 5 to 8 h, while the average working length ranges from 1 to 4 hours for 23% of female domestic workers in the study area. The average monthly salary drawn by the female domestic worker was Tk. 2135.07. The female domestic workers in the study area have recognized mental harassment as the first challenge in the workplace, with a mean index value of 4.02 followed by the insecure status of the job and the wage rate is not fixed.
S. Veeramani
Volume 4, Issue 2 , April 2015, , Pages 80-84
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There is a combat between modernism and postmodernism in both literary and non literary world. This article deals with how postmodernism has given impact in literary and cultural world. Lyotard has meticulously explained to the readers about the prefix ‘post’ in his work. Not only postmodernism ...
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There is a combat between modernism and postmodernism in both literary and non literary world. This article deals with how postmodernism has given impact in literary and cultural world. Lyotard has meticulously explained to the readers about the prefix ‘post’ in his work. Not only postmodernism a cultural entity but also a cultural product. Nihilism, Skepticism and Marxism also getting celebrations in the postmodern world.
Najmeh KhodaBakhshi; Ali Fazel Yazdi; Mohammad Reza Karimipour Ardakani
Volume 5, Issue 2 , April 2016, , Pages 82-95
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As a concept related to several scientific fields such as accounting, economics, finance and law, corporate governance motivates the individual and accumulative goals and reinforces the effective application of the resources and necessitates the responsiveness to the other stakeholders. Furthermore, ...
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As a concept related to several scientific fields such as accounting, economics, finance and law, corporate governance motivates the individual and accumulative goals and reinforces the effective application of the resources and necessitates the responsiveness to the other stakeholders. Furthermore, implementing corporate governance might lead to the optimum allocation of the resources and enhancement of the information transparency and economic growth. This study investigates the impact of some corporate governance mechanisms on the firm value by comparing the value and usage of the cash holdings with the weak and strong corporate governance systems. The employed corporate governance mechanisms in this study are composed of the institutional ownership of the stocks, ownership concentration and CEO duality. To measure the firm value in terms of the value of the cash holding, the difference between the annual stock returns and the return of the three factor Fama-French model has been employed. The sample is composed of 102 listed firms on the Tehran Stock Exchange during a period from 2005 to 2009. Multivariate regression and Pearson correlation coefficients are used to test the research hypotheses. The findings reveal that the concentration of the institutional ownership and CEO duality are significantly and directly associated with the firm value.
Fateme Dashti Marvili; Ali Esmaelzadeh Maghari; Mostafa Kholdi
Volume 2, Issue 2 , April 2013, , Pages 83-91
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The present research aims investing ate the strategy of maintaining minor stockholders rights based on firm governance which was carried out in stock firms in 2011-2012. The research population was the accounting lecturers and the managers of stock firms among which 172 samples were chosen by Chockran ...
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The present research aims investing ate the strategy of maintaining minor stockholders rights based on firm governance which was carried out in stock firms in 2011-2012. The research population was the accounting lecturers and the managers of stock firms among which 172 samples were chosen by Chockran formula which the number of samples returning the responses was 152. This research contains four hypotheses: unfolding the information duly for minor stockholders has a significant relationship with firm governance. 2) The existence of information bases has a significant relationship with firm governance. 3) At present minor stockholders do not have any tool to supervise the managers and the directory board issues. 4) Culturization and education of stockholders have a significant relationship with firm governance. In this research, the data were collected through field observation and questionnaire. T-student test was used to identify if the responses given to variables are at very low, high and very high. Regarding the fact that scale level of questions of this research is ranked, the best test to establish the relationship among the variables is spearman test. The primary processing was preformed through Excel software and spss18 was used to analyze the data.
Mehdi Bakhshi; Farshad Azizi
Volume 3, Issue 2 , April 2014, , Pages 83-87
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Today, following equitable justice not only in the courts but also in exclusive in criminal centers (administrative, tax and sport) regarding independent concept of criminal domain is considered essential. In fact, based on criminal domain expression which involves a wide concept of criminal rights, ...
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Today, following equitable justice not only in the courts but also in exclusive in criminal centers (administrative, tax and sport) regarding independent concept of criminal domain is considered essential. In fact, based on criminal domain expression which involves a wide concept of criminal rights, a new chapter was issued on trial of sport men accused of doping in sport convention. Since, violation of sport men rights was ethically regarded unacceptable but it was not necessary to observe their rights during examination of their violations in related conventions and criminal domain concept which made following equitable justice in exclusive sub criminal centers. An essential subject, so it was regarded completely different. Nowadays, doping is extremely used in sport society while its reason can follow economical, social political and cultural motivations. However, it has been seen that a special group, team or country has attempted to denigrated a sport men by accusing him to doping which is against sport ethics. Based on today is internal and international sport principles to fight with doping, one of their most important principles is worldly doping campaign convention. The Mentioned convention is regarded as the main mover to fight with this disaster while many countries has tried to follow this convention including equitable justice issues, in examining the sport man charges follows justice formalities. finally, regarding all these attempts, there are some significant and key equitable justice problem in sport men freedom and security right, the sentenced peoples right to accessing information and humanistic situations of accused people in the jail and getting rid of torture as well as supposing being innocent which are regarded as the disadvantages of this convention.
Arezoo Fasihi; Abbas Abolghasemi
Volume 6, Issue 2 , April 2017, , Pages 86-95
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The present study was performed with the aim of comparing emotional processing and self-compassion in bully and victim students. It was a cross casual-comparative study. The population consisted all male and female bully and victim students of guidance schools in Ardabli city in the second semester of ...
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The present study was performed with the aim of comparing emotional processing and self-compassion in bully and victim students. It was a cross casual-comparative study. The population consisted all male and female bully and victim students of guidance schools in Ardabli city in the second semester of 2013-14. The sample was formed of 90 students (male=45, female=45) selected via simple sampling method who completed Illinoise Bully Scale (Espelage and Holt, 2001), Emotional Processing Scale (Baker et al, 2007), and Self-compassion Scale (Neff, 2003). Data was analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance. The results indicated more problems in emotional processing in bully students. It was also revealed that scores of bully students were significantly lower in suppression, weak emotion experiences, self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness compared to the victims. These findings point to sever harms in emotional processing and self-compassion in bully and victim students.
Studies in Humanities
Behrouz Jamalvandi
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This investigation was carried out to explore EFL teachers' understating and perception of postmethod paradigm in English language teaching (ELT). It also aimed at EFL teachers' evaluation and implementation of this pedagogy in their profession. To do so, as a qualitative research method, semi-structured ...
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This investigation was carried out to explore EFL teachers' understating and perception of postmethod paradigm in English language teaching (ELT). It also aimed at EFL teachers' evaluation and implementation of this pedagogy in their profession. To do so, as a qualitative research method, semi-structured interview was applied. Seven Iranian EFL teachers participated in the interview sessions. The sessions were audio recorded for further analysis. The results of the data analysis showed that majority of the teachers were not fully aware of the nature of postmethod pedagogy. In addition, most of the EFL teachers were found to make the least use of this paradigm in their teaching career. The study ends with recommendations for ELT in educational system of Iran.
Abolfazl Balarostaghi; Mohammadreza Khatibi
Volume 7, Issue 2 , April 2018, , Pages 99-107
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City is the greatest symbol of human civilization and has been built for safety and comfort. However, uncontrolled urban growth regardless of urban patterns caused some anonymous and unsightly images of the cities and also increasing expansion of cities made urban entranceindustrial applications and ...
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City is the greatest symbol of human civilization and has been built for safety and comfort. However, uncontrolled urban growth regardless of urban patterns caused some anonymous and unsightly images of the cities and also increasing expansion of cities made urban entranceindustrial applications and irrelevant with this rapid development in its placeand does not have any spacial sequence with urban identity. Accordingly, this space became one of the most meaningless parts of the cities. This issue has an important impact on concepts such as Urban Identity, Urban Morphology, social and ecological aspects of cities. Thus, sustainable development tries to solve these irregularities from Human life. The aim of this investigation is the identification and evaluation of principles and aspects of sustainable development on city entrances identifying the concept, with a focus on urban landuse beside the project with approaches in urban lost spaces, then with preservation of environmental quality, mixed urban land use, tries to respond human needs for making good role for urban identity. The case study of this article is the entrance of Gorgan city, and the method of this research is Descriptive and analytical.
Isa Bakhtyari Mansourabad
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Economic Value Added is one of the most useful measures for managers’ performance evaluation. Another economical criterion used for distinguishing between company’s market value and invested capital in the company is market value added. In this paper it has been tried to study the relationship ...
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Economic Value Added is one of the most useful measures for managers’ performance evaluation. Another economical criterion used for distinguishing between company’s market value and invested capital in the company is market value added. In this paper it has been tried to study the relationship between economic value added with liquidity and returns of listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange. For this purpose we have a sample of 510 companies who have been present in exchange market during the years of 2005-2010. The companies selected for our sample are those which their financial statements are available for the mentioned period, their fiscal year hasn’t been changed during the above mentioned period, the end of their fiscal year is the same, i.e. the last month of each year in Iran and their stock have been traded during the mentioned years. With application the above mentioned conditions the number of research sample reduces to 98 companies. Liquidity and returns are dependent research variables, economic value added is independent variable and controlled variables include company size and the ratio of book value to market value of equity. In this paper the regression model has been used. The results of the research indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between economic added value and stock liquidity. Also there is a significant and positive relationship between economic added value and returns. Finally the results indicate that there is a significant difference in the relationship between economic added value with liquidity in listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange and returns.
Susan Fotouhi
Volume 1, Issue 3 , July 2012, , Pages 137-142
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Writing language, writing skill and writing profession have long been communication channel of humankind and of the means of social survival. Persian language and literature has received the highest degree of influence from Islam and has always looked at this topic as something of high position the aim ...
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Writing language, writing skill and writing profession have long been communication channel of humankind and of the means of social survival. Persian language and literature has received the highest degree of influence from Islam and has always looked at this topic as something of high position the aim of which is revolution, dynamism, beauty and finally, life. The author, within this article, tries to show the importance of composition lesson within different education levels, to investigate the students' weakness reasons in this lesson and to provide solutions for fortifying, improvement and skill development of students in these courses.
Mohammad Shams Addin; Ali Yaghobi Pour
Volume 2, Issue 3 , July 2013, , Pages 141-148
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Organizational behavior is a variable that predicts many organizational variables. One of these variables that have an important role in many organizations today is organizational citizenship behavior. So the present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) ...
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Organizational behavior is a variable that predicts many organizational variables. One of these variables that have an important role in many organizations today is organizational citizenship behavior. So the present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) on performance customer Personality. In this study, data were collected to assess relationship between organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) with customer satisfaction, behavioral intentions, Loyalty intentions and customer perceptions of service quality. The Pearson correlation coefficients, structural equation modeling and Friedman ANOVA were used for data analysis.The results showed that the mean comparison between organizational citizenship behavior and performance customer Personality were statisticaly significant (p ≤ 0.05). The results of the present study suggest that the organizational citizenship behavior had a positive effects on performance customer Personality.
Habibollah Javanmard; Majid Jalaei
Volume 3, Issue 3 , July 2014, , Pages 155-166
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Purpose: The aim of this article is to introduce the effect of strategic purchase (SP) on the suppliers’ development (SD) and purchasing performance. Design/methodology/approach: The research method is causal applied one and in order to gather data, the questionnaire was used under field method. ...
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Purpose: The aim of this article is to introduce the effect of strategic purchase (SP) on the suppliers’ development (SD) and purchasing performance. Design/methodology/approach: The research method is causal applied one and in order to gather data, the questionnaire was used under field method. The questionnaires were distributed among 241 companies among the suppliers of Imam Khomeini Oil Refinery Company of Shazand. Method of data analysis is also Structural Equation Modeling. Findings: this study indicate that there is significant evidence to support the hypothesized model in which SP a direct influence on SD practices and purchasing performance, as well as an indirect impact on purchasing performance mediated through SD. Research limitations/implications: Further research is necessary to increase our understanding of a buyer’s strategic purchasing and supplier development practices and more specifically how suppliers could develop a supporting environment to facilitate the strategic alignment of these two concepts. The limitations of the survey are also discussed. Practical implications: The findings from this study provide supplying firms with an understanding of how buying firms use SD to deploy their SP initiatives in order to achieve improvements in purchasing performance. Originality/value: While there is some literature analyzing SP and the implications for buyer-supplier relationships, the relationship between SP and SD practices and their effect on purchasing performance has not been yet analyzed.
Seyyedeh Razieh Mousavi
Volume 5, Issue 3 , July 2016, , Pages 165-175
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Wahhabism is a movement emerged in the 4th century by Ahmad ibnTaymiyyah, revived and developed during the 8th century by Muhammad ibnAbd al-Wahhab. Receiving support from western countries, this movement was officially recognized in Saudi Arabia in the 12th century. Today, Wahhabism has begun its activities ...
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Wahhabism is a movement emerged in the 4th century by Ahmad ibnTaymiyyah, revived and developed during the 8th century by Muhammad ibnAbd al-Wahhab. Receiving support from western countries, this movement was officially recognized in Saudi Arabia in the 12th century. Today, Wahhabism has begun its activities in Khuzestan province with the aim of provoking ethnic division and weakening beliefs of the Arabs of this region. Unfortunately, lack of sufficient means of comfort and existenceof cultural gaps along with poor religious and ideological education have led to the recruitment of needy people and addicts by this sect. Although very few people are recruited to Wahhabism, this political-ideological movement shouldn’t be underestimated and effective measures must be adopted for countering Wahhabi sect. Considering the activities of Wahhabism during the recent years in Khuzestan province, this paper examines propagation methods ofWahhabism and presents some recommendations for solving this problem in the province.
Ruhollah Tavallaei; Sajjad Shokohyar; Ghazaleh Kousedghi
Volume 4, Issue 3 , July 2015, , Pages 173-184
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According to the importance of information systems in Today's world particularly the mangers’ need for systems in field of business intelligence and organization performance management, Board information system was designed in 1994 in Switzerland for simultaneously economic and rapid development ...
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According to the importance of information systems in Today's world particularly the mangers’ need for systems in field of business intelligence and organization performance management, Board information system was designed in 1994 in Switzerland for simultaneously economic and rapid development of performance management and business intelligence. It is used for effectiveness improvement and management decision processing, business intelligence ,business traffic analysis and performance management in an integrated environment.This study investigates the effect of Board information system on the organizations` performance taking into account the financial, customer, internal process and learning and growth dimensions. This study is practical research regarding to objective and a descriptive-analytical regarding to methodology. Therefore, the features and capabilities of Board information system are firstly examined by library and document studies approach then the effect of this information system on organizational performance is studied by forming a focal group session and performing meta-analysis. Results show that Board information system leave positive and meaningful impact by means of its effects on organization including human resources empowerment, organization structure and process, risk reduction, flexibility ,communication, time reduction, decision making improvement, knowledge sharing, risk reduction and applicability on organization performance from financial, customer, internal process and learning and growth dimensions.
