Cartoons have been the favorites among children, teenagers and adults. Cartoons started with the paper drawing to the highest technology of disseminating in the form of movies and apart from that, as a teaching tool for second language learners. The objectives of the study were to identify and discuss the characters, storyline and moral values in Malay cartoon. The cartoon involved in this study was Upin and Ipin. The samples consist of ten subjects from a class of Malay language proficiency at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea. The subjects were shown 8 episodes from Upin and Ipin for 1 hour a week in 8 weeks. The subjects were interviewed based on their views about the cartoons. The results of the study revealed that the subjects managed to identify all the characters in the cartoons. The subjects also understood the storyline in six episodes for each cartoon. The results also revealed that the moral values for each episode were respect, hardworking, caring, loving and other. This study implicates educators in considering cartoons as a teaching tool in foreign language learning. It is hoped that future study will focus on the cartoons in writing short stories among Malay language learners.
Korean drama has played a major role in the entertainment industry toward Korea’s economy. The study focuses on the influence of Korean dramas toward Korean university students. The objectives of the study were to identify the genres of Korean drama that influenced the students and to analyze the students’ discussion on Korean dramas. At one of the universities in Korea, 100 subjects from five courses participated in the study. The subjects were aged between 22 to 28 years old and included both female and male students. The instruments utilized for the study were questionnaires as well as observations during the discussion among the subjects. The questionnaires were answered by all of the subjects whereas for the observations, twelve volunteer subjects participated in the discussion of the study for three weeks. The selected extracts from the discussion were analyzed for the purpose of the study. The results of the study showed that a majority of the subjects were influenced by traditional drama and crime drama whereas a majority of the subjects stated that they disagreed that they were influenced with romantic drama because the drama would give false hope compared to reality. The study implicates educators, researchers, and students toward Korean dramas.
Malay short stories have been favorites not only among small children but also teenagers and adults in Malaysia. The short stories were story told orally among villagers and were heard among all ages of community. Malay short stories were also introduced to students who undertook Malay language courses from universities from all over the world. This study focuses on discussions of Malay short stories among students at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea. The objectives of the study were to investigate the types of activities involved in creating the Malay short stories and to discuss the content of discussions among Korean learners at the university. The subjects of the study consist of a class of 10 students. A task to write a short story in the Malay language was given to the subjects. Selected extracts of interactions were analyzed for the purpose of the study. The findings showed that the subjects referred to other Malay short stories for guidance, insert new ideas and showed great interest during the discussion. The study implicates educators, students, and writers to write new Malay short stories. It is hoped that future research focuses on other genres of Malay literature.
Abstract\nThe role played by Intellectual Capital (IC) in the new operational and environmental context affecting the activities developed by business units, derives from the unsatisfied informational needs related to the existing intangible resources.\n The main problem encountered in the evaluation of IC consists in the traditional economic and financial instruments that may sometimes obstruct the evaluation and reporting of IC. The IAS/IFRS International Accounting Standards or the accounting regulations enforced in all EU countries, as well as outside the EU, are not suitable for evaluating and measuring this new resource, as the classical balance sheet adopted by business units does not include an entry that recognizes and records intellectual resources as wealth.\n This is the context that also encompasses the main objective of this paper which aims at emphasizing the need to separate the reporting of IC as an accounting instrument from the traditional financial reporting and thus become an essential communication means for all the stakeholders; moreover, we argue that IC reporting should not be used as a means to define the indicators involved in comparing the business unit with other entities, but it should provide a more accurate picture of the way the company’s strategies are interpreted by management and how intangible resources are allocated so as to create added value (as can be noted in the considerations presented in the second part of the paper).
This paper describes the system analysis, modeling and simulation of a Hydraulic Servo System (HSS) for hydraulic mini press machine. Comparisons among linear output feed back PID control, Fuzzy control and Hybrid of PID and Fuzzy control are presented. Application of hybrid controller to a nonlinear is investigated by both position and velocity of the hydraulic servo system. The experiment is based on an 8 bit PIC 16F877 microcontroller, and the simulation is based on MATLAB Simulink. Simulation and hardware experimental results show that the hybrid controller gave the best performance as it has the smallest overshoot, oscillation, and setting time.
The information system strategy is an integral part of any organizational strategy. The IS discipline contributes in a significant way to a number of domains, including business and government. Information systems are complex systems requiring both technical and organizational expertise for design, development, and management. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on the IS curricula. Further, the paper explains the concepts, tools and methodologies being used to evaluate information system curricula in six different Saudi Universities such as King Saud University (KSU), King Fahad University (KFU), King Abdul Aziz University (KAU), King Faisal University (KFU), Imam University, Taibah University and Qassim University by Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). The AHP tool is applied for comparative analysis of the survey of information system curricula including subjects: information system, computer science, sciences, management and others. The results of this paper indicate IS adoptability and help Universities to improve their IS curricula to meet the standard that contribute in the development of country in different sectors.
This paper presents an experimental comparison of image reconstruction using Cimmino’s method and Ordered Subsets Expectation Maximization (OSEM) for various numbers of projections. Image reconstruction is a methodology through which, the image of an interior part of an object is reconstructed from the projection data of the object. Computed tomography is used in nondestructive evaluation for identifying the dimensions and hidden defects of the internal structure of an object without any destruction by creating a 2D or 3D image. Image reconstruction can be performed using filtered back projection or iterative methodology, where iterative methodology is the best suited method for solving large scale linear system where direct method fails due to very large time consumption. This paper compared the experimental results of image reconstruction using Cimmino’s method and OSEM for various test image with varying number of projections and the result of experimentation reveals that Cimmino’s method is providing a best accurate result for less number of projections.
There are several issues of importance related to the new lifesaving vehicular network and security is one of the most vital of these issues. In regards to the security of the vehicular applications, trust is a main factor. Users are served by these applications when elements such as other users, vehicles and RSUs of the network act in a way that is anticipated in the peer to peer vehicular communication. On the other hand, it can become dangerous for other legitimate users of the network if any element should suddenly become an attacker. In this paper, we present three different trust levels in a peer to peer vehicular network. The aim of the presented trust levels is to be able to precisely determine the situation according to trust levels, whenever changes happen within the network. Behavior of attackers directly affects the degree of trust, so our objective is to achieve the strong trust level in future vehicular network and the decrease the role of attackers and possible attacks in vehicular network. The main intention is to use these trust levels to model and simulate varying threat situations and predict potential attacks and make recommendations to legitimate users to avoid disaster.
The purpose of this study was to investigate among the students of police school the distribution of the hand preference, which gives clue about the more dominant flocculus that performs different brain functions and also which is the best indicator of the functional integrity of the upper extremity; and distribution of grip strength as one of the most important locomotor functions of the hand; and to examine their effect on the gunshot hit rate with the support of exercise program for 12 weeks.\nResearch sample group was determined to be total 42 experimental subjects between ages 18-20 from the male students of police school. Hand preferences of the groups were determined by Edinburg Inventory (Oldfield survey) before starting the study.\nGroups were constituted within the scope of the study, first group being the experimental group “doing exercise” (n1=21), and control group “not doing exercise” being the second group (n2=21). Groups were evaluated within the framework of strength exercises made in a time period of 12 weeks, being 1 hour per day, and 3 days in a week. \nAll required tests and measurements were made in the first week before starting exercise program of 12 weeks (age, height, body weight, resting heart rate (muscle) measurement, exercising heart rate measurement, and biomotoric strength tests [grip strength, pull-up, horizontal bar, pushup], gunshot hit rate test), and these tests were repeated in the first week at the end of the program, and results were evaluated.\nAnalysis of differences in biomotoric strength test results among the experimental and control groups before and after the exercises were made by Variance analysis, Kruskal Wallis H test, and t test. Analysis of Oldfield hand preference scores was obtained by two samples t test. Effect of biomotoric forces on the gunshot hit rate was examined by means of regression analysis. Results were specified by tabulation. Data were analyzed by using 15.0 software SPSS package program. Significance level was tested as α=0.05 in the analyses.\nAs a result, it is seen that maximal alteration in the experimental group of students is provided by the increase in pull-ups, gunshot hit rates and push-ups. The minimal effect obtained by exercises was observed in the body weight change. It is also determined that stature and grip strength of the students are fairly influential factors on the gunshot hit rates. Accordingly, it may be told that short stature of the students, thus high grip strength in direct proportion to short stature, have a positive impact on the gunshot hit rate of the students.
This study analyzed the effect of fabric weave types woven with modal® and weft yarns, and weft yarns produced from different fibers, on air permeability and stiffness properties of fabrics.\nTwo-way analysis of variance showed that air permeability of fabrics woven with 100 % cotton weft yarns was lower than that of fabrics produced from 100 % modal® weft yarn. Although weft yarn type had a statistically significant effect (p<0.001) on air permeability, the weave type of fabrics had a greater effect on air permeability. Stiffness of fabrics woven with 100 % modal® weft yarn was lower than that of fabrics woven with 100 % cotton weft yarn. It was concluded that the fiber and weave type used in weft yarns significantly affected the stiffness of the fabrics (p<0.001).
Exons are the regions depicting protein traces in DNA strands. Scientists have been formulating methods to identify the protein spots from last decade. Enormous efforts have been made to find a significant solution to help biologists to convert DNA strands to relative RNA strands. Since the problem is an open optimization issue, a robust optimal solution is still lacking. This paper presented a computational statistic solution for exon identification that provides close range estimation when there are mixed intron-exon noise regions in DNA strands. The Approach has been divided into three dimensions. Minimization of spectral leakage has been obtained by employing an optimal window function. Signal detection in 1/f background noise is achieved by selection of best indicator sequence after a keen comparative analysis of indicator sequence adoptions and finally exon spots have been maximized with the help of wavelet transforms. A significant improvement was observed as compared with other famous existing techniques over very common and general datasets.
An efficient intrusion detection system requires fast processing and optimized performance. Architectural complexity of the classifier increases by the processing of the raw features in the datasets which causes heavy load and needs proper transformation and representation. PCA is a traditional approach for dimension reduction by finding linear combinations of original features into lesser number. Support vector machine performs well with different kernel functions that classify in higher dimensional at optimized parameters. The performance of these kernels can be examined by using variant feature subsets at respective parametric values. In this paper SVM based intrusion detection is proposed by using PCA transformed features with different kernels. This results in optimal kernel of SVM for feature subset with fewer false alarms and increased detection rate.
Bioinformatics is an emerging area of research in recent days. A large amount of biological data has been accumulated in the Human Genome Project; the size of this data is increasing exponentially. The aims of the bioinformatics are to process this complex data and get useful information from it. The information may be about the structures or functions of the unknown protein sequences. Many computational techniques have been proposed in the past for modeling and analyzing protein or amino acid sequences. Classification of protein sequences into superfamily is also very useful to understand the structure and functions of unknown proteins. There are many issues in classifying protein into superfamily but the three major issues are the selection of suitable feature encoding method to represent protein sequences, selection of an optimized subset of features having higher discriminatory information for representation of protein sequence and selection of a suitable classification technique. In this research work, we have purposed new feature encoding technique that use variable length word with positional information. An optimized feature subset selection method using some statistical metrics is also proposed. We have tested feature encodings and selection technique with a new tree classification design that uses cluster k nearest neighbor classification algorithm. Our technique is alignment free and also more efficient .The proposed technique reduces the size of the original feature vectors to 15% and classification accuracy obtained is 97.4%. The data sets used in the training and testing has been taken from well known protein UniProt database.
Given the increasing economic and social needs of society, the need for fundamental changes in the accounting profession has been revealed more than ever. According to the accounting profession in Iran, many experts claim that accounting graduates, lack the knowledge and skills to meet the needs of professional accounting. Important goal of accounting education programs should establish a foundation for the development of permanent learning by students. The study also evaluated the quality of accounting education at the undergraduate level prior to its application in the labor market from the perspective of students and their teachers. Using the results of this study, Students, scholars of accounting degree can be successful in obtaining jobs. Research methods from the standpoint are applied and descriptive-collaborative. T-tests and questionnaires of Friedman\'s hypothesis are used as research tools .The population of students enrolled in accounting courses, teachers working in vocational centers are among statistical society which have been selected in 2011.\nThe study showed that both groups of students and teachers agree that current practices in accounting education and professional technical centers for students to gain professional skills related to accounting activities are not effective.\nKey Words: Accounting, Education, Program Approved Accounting Courses, Expert, Job Market, Teachers, Students.
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2011 would refer to as the acts of aggression, which demonstrated the vulnerability of any state to terrorism. Recent international developments have furnished convincing proofs for political and regulatory provision to combat international terrorism. Today, the individual states unable to approach this issue systematically. Consequently, they would seek to join forces to establish inter-regional and inter-state counter-terrorist centers. The Kazakh-US relations wouldn\'t be an exception since their main priority after September 11, have been the security issues and counter- terrorism. In Central Asia and Kazakhstan, as well as internationally, terrorist ideology is based on religious extremism, therefore the war on terror would suggest the fight against religious extremism. This paper would review the Kazakhstan-U.S. interaction and cooperation in combating international terrorism. Precisely, we consider bilateral counter-terrorism agreements, as well as Kazakhstan legislation on counter- terrorism and religious extremism.
Fire blight caused by Erwinia amylovora is the most important diseases of many rosaceous plants including apple and pear that causes economical losses in many areas in the world. In recent years essential oils commonly have been used in management of bacterial plant diseases in many countries. For comparison efficacy of some common chemical compounds and essential oils, hindering effect this compounds on growth of bacterium Erwinia amylovora was evaluated on nutrient agar medium in Petri Dish. Applied compounds were including Copper compounds (Bordeaux mixture & Copper oxychloride) Streptomycin and Starner that compared with essential oil of white thyme and black thyme. In vitro bioassay results indicated the antibacterial effects of white thyme and black thyme as well as chemical compounds. Results of field experiments showed that essential oils were able to reduce the blossom blight infection, thus could be a suitable candidate for designing new pesticides for replacement antibiotics and copper compounds.
It is increasingly acknowledged that firms cannot be competitive if their business and information technology strategies are not aligned. A number of proposals have been made for achieving strategic alignment. Despite still being a major concern for business executives there is little published research that attempts to give methodological support for achieving strategic alignment in day-to-day business. Additionally it seems that alignment needs to be investigated in terms of formulating and implementing IT strategy on lower levels of abstraction in order to analyze, monitor and control the desired results.. This paper reports findings from a survey on Alignment IT & Business Strategy in the Manufacturing Companies of Iran .This paper reports on the use of SAM for alignment strategic Manufacturing Companies. We conducted a research in the Manufacturing CompanDepartment of management ,Islamic Azad University ,maku Branch, West Azarbaijan, Iran.\nies to determine this relation.. Data from completed projects are applied to the model to determine whether SAM is useful as a management tool to create alignment between information technology and the business.. Hence, we explore the role of Alignment strategic in the Iranian Manufacturing Companies. Analysis of the data reveals a Alignment strategic in the Manufacturing Companies of Iran.
As far as increasing the interest of investors, creditors, borrowing firms, governments, etc. is concerned, the prediction of financial distress is a crucial problem. It is, indeed, desirable to timely identify the firms’ impending failure. Research in financial distress and bankruptcy emphasize the design of more sophisticated classifiers, and less feature selection and their appropriate methods. This investigation aims at assessing the effectiveness of the fuzzy-rough set feature selection in the prediction of financial distress in the companies accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange. In this respect, the present study compares the performance of this feature selection with the commonly used feature selection and extraction methods. The experimental results of the study indicate that the fuzzy-rough set feature selection method outperforms the other ones through the two performance measurements. In other words, the application of this method of feature selection increases the mean of accuracy, and reduces the occurrence of type I and type II errors. Moreover, this method can reduce the highest number of predictor features.
In this paper, the scrubber of the sulfur granulation unit of Razi Petrochemical is simulated and as the ultimate goal, the efficiency improvement is investigated. Simultaneous existence of momentum, energy, mass transfer and the importance of surface stresses and adherence of sulfur particle and water droplet to each other and to the wall increase the complexity of the problem. The results suggest that to achieve highly efficient scrubbers, collector droplets should be small and the relative velocity of sulfur and water droplets should be great. Also, small droplets will decrease the contact surface and therefore the efficiency will be lower. However, the very large droplets are inefficient and consume a lot of water. Therefore, the optimization of the droplet size is an aim of this paper. Furthermore, the effects of spray angle and the velocity of droplet injection are studied.
In this study, we try to optimize the turbojet engine in ideal condition by multi objective particle swarm optimization algorithm and multi target genetic algorithm (NSGAII). Then, the results of these optimizations will be compared to each others. \n The target functions are specific thrust (ST), specific fuel consumption (SFC) and thermal efficiency (ηt) that once will simultaneously be optimized by two by two way and the results will be revealed in the Pareto curves. In all parts of optimization, several design vectors will be shown, and then these vectors will be compared to each others. Obviously by comparing these vectors, designer can select one of them according to limitation of design. \nDesign variables are considered as Mach number and total compressor pressure ratio. The significant relation between objective functions is introduced according to Pareto points. There is no doubt that these functions without using methods are not considerable.
Impact is one of very important subjects which always have been considered in mechanical science. Nature of impact is such that which makes its control a hard task. Therefore it is required to present the transfer of impact to other vulnerable part of a structure, when it is necessary .one of the best method of absorbing energy of impact, is by using Thin-walled tubes these tubes collapses under impact and with absorption of energy, it prevents the damage to other parts. \nIn this paper, deformations and energy absorption capacity of thin walled tubes with various section shapes (square, rectangular) are investigated both experimentally and numerically. The tubes have the same volume, height, average section area, thickness and material and are subjected under lateral quasi static loading. The results of simulations are in good agreement with the experimental data and show that the section geometry has considerable effect on the energy absorption and also by increscent in speed of loading, energy absorption would be more.
One potent bacteriocin producing strain from papaya was isolated and identified for the production of antimicrobial protein. This bacterium produces maximum bacteriocin in MRS medium at static condition at 37°C only after 5 hours of fermentation time. The most remarkable feature of this bacteriocin is its wide range of temperature stability ranging from -20°C to 115.6°C. It is equally stable in wide range of pH (3-10). It has also shown broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity, nearly active to same extent against different strains of gm+ and gm- bacteria tested, including most potent food pathogens like Vibrio fischeri, Enterobacter aerogenes, E.coli, Salmonella typhi. All this noteworthy characteristics make this bacteriocin more fitted candidate for commercialization.\nKeywords: Lactococcus lactis JC10, Bacteriocin, stability, antimicrobial activity
All climatic parameters in an area such as precipitation, temperature, humidity and etc. can affect the region and study of these parameters can help a researcher to know the area better. This paper studies the precipitation variability in North Alborz basin using Mann-Kendall Method. This research has studied and analyzed the annual precipitation in North Alborz basin using synoptic and climatology stations data in a statistical period of 46 years (1960-2005). The research then uses Mann-Kendall Method to study the variables. The findings of the research show that the negative trend of precipitation in South of basin and the positive trend in East of basin.
The construction industry in Malaysia, as with any other country, has long been a very significant contributor towards the economic growth of the nation. While this industry has seemingly been integrated with numerous new and modern technologies to further enhance its productivity, there are still certain aspects of the industry which remain lagging behind other sectors. One of the more concerted approaches that has been recently adopted, particularly in Malaysia, is the implementation of the Industrialized Building System (IBS) within the construction industry. Although IBS is not entirely a recent innovation or approach, it has been given a new lease of life with various initiatives and incentives introduced to promote a more increased implementation of this system in order to effectively reduce the dependency on foreign labour as well as to elevate the industry’s overall productivity. However, it is pertinent that the capabilities of the building contractors in adopting this system be studied to ensure a smooth integration of IBS into the industry. This criterion forms the basis of this study, where the main factors that enable an extensive use of IBS will be identified. This study was undertaken through the use of a structured questionnaire that was distributed to the selected respondents representing IBS contractors in major states within Malaysia, namely, the Federal Territory, Selangor, Pulau Pinang and Johor. The study employed statistical analyses such as factor analysis, mean analysis and reliability analysis, through which findings were derived. The study findings clearly point to the fact that initial action as well as relevant knowledge as the main factors that would increase the capabilities of these contractors in effectively implementing IBS in Malaysia.
Wireless sensor and actor networks are improved form of wireless sensor networks. In these networks actor nodes are inducted for a quick action against any attack. Secure data delivery in these networks is very important because any tempered dta delivery to an actor node cause a big destruction of our own resources. There are many encryption algorithms for data security proposed by researchers; however we should be careful about energy consumption, data encryption time and decryption time of each encryption algorithm. In this paper we analyze existing encryption algorithms for wireless sensor and actor networks on the basis of energy consumption, encryption time, decryption time, packet size, key size, number of compromised sensor nodes and number of successful attacks. The simulation results show that packet size, encryption time and decryption time affect the performance of an encryption algorithm in resource limited sensor networks.
The present study theoretically investigates the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects on stagnation point flow of nanofluids towards a non-linear stretching sheet under the assumption of a small magnetic Reynolds number. Sheet is stretched with a power law velocity in the presence of a non-uniform magnetic field B applied in a transverse direction. A non-linear problem is modelled using the modified Bernoulli\'s equation for electrically conducting nanofluid by incorporating the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis parameters. Using appropriate similarity transformations, the governing non-linear partial differential equations are transformed into ordinary differential equations. These equations along with boundary conditions are numerically solved (when ε<1 and ε>1) using the Keller-box method. Numerical results are plotted and discussed for pertinent flow parameters. A comparison with previous results in literature is also provided.
The present article aims to compare Mulla Sadra and Russell’s points of view on correspondence relation in the theory of truth. Mulla Sadra believes that there is a correspondence between the picture created in mind and the external object, because the external object has a unity in nature and quiddity with its mental picture. Russell maintains that a belief is the relation of believing or judging, which makes a relation between a mind and several things other than itself. According to what Russell regards necessary for a theory of truth, one of which is allowing for falsehood, it is impossible considering belief as a relation of the mind to a single object. But Mulla Sadra in the ‘fact’ side of correspondence relation considers only a single object. Sadra believes that the knower and the directly known object are identical, since the knower or mind, itself, creates the quiddity of known object, and it is known directly by each individual in the process of perception, the view which is in agreement with Russell’s view, when he comments that much of what we call perception is, in fact, influenced by memory, habit, and interpretation.
This paper focuses on the extent to which the sensitivity of the degree of heterogeneity within industries on firm performance model to Malaysia using a panel of 240 companies from the manufacturing sector over the period 2001 to 2008. We use Latent Class (LC) cluster analysis to classify companies into groups, such that the companies within a group are sufficiently homogeneous and that companies in different groups are less homogeneous. Our results demonstrate that the homogeneity, or heterogeneity of the groupings identified by the data, affects the performance of the empirical model of profitability employed here. The paper also examines the role of other factors that are commonly found to affect profitability. In this work the roles of market share, market concentration, firm size, leverage, industry growth, firm growth, firm capital intensity, labour productivity, openness, advertising intensity and research and development intensity are also subjected to empirical scrutiny.
ABSTRACT\nObjectives: Sedentary life style leads to increase in coronary heart disease. Regular physical activity results in decreased risk of coronary heart disease (Berlin 1990). Effects of endurance training on inflammatory markers including hs-crp and HC, LDL, HDL and total blood cholesterol of sedentary adult female subjects were evaluated. Methods: Twenty healthy volunteer female sedentary subjects aged 35 to 45 voluntarily participated in two types of endurance exercise for 8 consecutive weeks. Blood parameters including TC, TG, HDL, VLDL and HS-crp tests were analyzed. \nResults: No significant differences between the training protocols on TC, TG, LDL, HDL, VLDL and hs-CRP (P=0.885, 0.110, 0.607, 0.137, 0.90, 0.283) were found. Both exercise types had a significant effects on TC, LDL, HDL, hs-CRP and weight (P=0.0001, 0.0001, 0.006, 0.01, 0.0001), whereas no significant difference was found between the pre and post test levels of TG and VLDL (p=0.46, 0.44), respectively. \nConclusion: Endurance exercise intermittently or continuously have significant effect on all lipids and hs-CRP. Also, both type of exercise are effective on weight reduction. Further research is needed to make firm conclusion in regard to change in the levels of TG and VLDL of sedentary female adults\nKeywords: Intermittent, Continuous, Exercise, Lipid profiles, hs-CRP
For designing robust policy decision, it is crucial to understand the path of private capital flows. For example, if the private capital flows are stationary (non-stationary), then it implies that shocks to private capital flows are temporary (permanent). Using three types of panel unit root tests, this study concludes that shocks to portfolio investment and foreign direct investment is temporary while total debt series are permanent in a panel of 87 countries from 1988-2009. Furthermore, the shock of East Asian financial crisis has a significant impact on the time path of these private capital flows in some income group countries.
Abstract \n The influence of arts on each other during the history always has been a natural matter and the very matter, have made this issue to be granted and considered by critics. As Martin Heidegger said, when opening the secrets the world becomes difficult for philosophy and modern science, art opens it and figures it out.\n As it is clear, all the genuine arts are generally one in the nature, so there is not much difference in the ultimate goal of all the arts. We should not divide the arts to painting, music, architecture and etc. These divisions exist in the world of multitude and techniques and it is again the matter of dialect that is different and it is not repetitive. \nThe important issue that is influencing on architecture is visual perception, imagination, visualization, and the making the atmosphere of the music works. Sometimes the architect will be asked to architect for a piece of music, and a building or a decor. Sometimes music can be an inspiration, idea or start for an architectural design. Sometimes a musician will be asked to write a piece of music for a work of architecture or Sometimes an architect will be asked to choose a music for a work.\n The easiest way that often talking about it comes in is the similarities, the common issues and the similar terms of music and architecture. For example, it is said that, music has got rhythm and song and also the architecture uses the same, so it has used of music. But the issue is not so simple and commonplace. It is much deeper. Visual and intuitive understanding of the sounds and waves of the environment and nature, both are involved in the creation. If we look from this perspective, we will get to this conclusion that music has benefited more, from the architecture. Here architecture is involved with climate and ecosystems and music with both. \n If the comparative study of architecture and music comes to the comparison of the periodic motion of playing the corners in a row and turning these corners to each other in the improvisation of the musician, it will degrade to space divisions in the architecture, so it must be said that the result of such an adaptive comparison is so clear on its surface that, it is like connecting the string to the heavens, and it doesn’t matter how skilled is the weaver.
The goal of current study is to analyze the relation between financing (capital structure) and stock abnormal return of companies in the Tehran Stock Exchange. Time frame of current study was 2006 to 2010 that 133 companies had formed sample of research in form of 23 different industries. Current research is a practical descriptive correlation study. Chaw Test had been employed to test models and revealed that panel method shall be employed therefore Hausman Test was used to employ random effects or fixed effects panel method. Finally model\'s fitting was submitted and achieved results of Classic Regression hypotheses were represented for researches\' models. The results reveal that there is significant and inverse relation between book leverage and retained abnormal return of the companies while no relation is observable between market leverage and company\'s retained abnormal return in confidence level of 95 percent.
Value-based organization is a new face of organization which place emphasis on values.\nThinkers believe that the ever-changing environment has forced the new era’s organizations\nto search for more cohesion to respond the challenges. In this article after reviewing the\ncharacteristics of value-based organization, its basics and benefits are presented. Then, as the\npurpose of the article is designing a value-based model for the Iran’s Payam Noor university,\ndoctoral Center (PNU), the steps for doing that is presented. Firstly the conceptual model\ndesigned after literature review is introduced and secondly the hypothesis are presented.\nAccording to the model a value-based organization model is created via a special style of\nleadership, called value-based leadership which embodies vision management, values\ntransmission, trust management, self-management. The value-based leadership style tries to\nconvert the stakeholders expectations into organizational values.The stakeholders in Iran’s\nPayam Noor University, Doctoral Center(PNU) are students,employees, managers, and the\nhead-office. All of the hypothesis are confirmed and the ranking of stakeholders expectations\nare presented.
The present research intended to study impact of “trust” on “knowledge sharing” in Iran\nKhodro Diesel Company. For the present research classified random sampling was used and\nits statistical community included all staff managers, employees and experts within Iran\nKhodre Diesel Company. The main tools for collecting the required data included face to\nface questionnaire and the descriptive-field research method was used for this purpose.\nOutcome of the statistical methods as well as Spss and Amos software utilized for the present\nresearch suggested that there existed positive and meaningful relationship among variables\nwithin our model. In conclusion in view of the findings of the research some\nrecommendations produced for thescientific and organizational community
This study was designed to investigate the relationship among learning environment perception, epistemological beliefs and academic achievement using structural equation modeling. The study population consisted of the students of Islamic Azad University in Fars province, southern Iran, randomly selected by using multi step cluster random sampling. In total, 267 questionnaires were administered and the validity and reliability of them were assessed by item analysis and Cronbach’s alpha, respectively. It was shown that constructivist learning environment with (β-0.86) was negatively correlated with the students’ epistemological beliefs, i.e., the more constructivist the learning environment is, the more complex the epistemological beliefs are. Also, constructivist learning environment with (β0.28) was significantly positively correlated with students’ academic achievements. On the contrary, epistemological beliefs with (β-0.40) was found to be negatively correlated with academic achievement. That is , the more complex the epistemological beliefs are, the more academic achievement is observed. Overall, all indices lent support to the proposed research model. \nKeywords: constructivist learning environment, epistemological beliefs, academic achievement
