Enhancing sustainability performance of universities: A DMAIC approach

Enhancing Communities for Sustainability: a Travel Ecology Approach

the role of application of dynamic assessment approach in improvement of iranian efl writing performance at different language proficiency levels

the present study sought to investigate the role of dynamic assessment (da) in improvement of iranian efl writing performance at different language proficiency levels. to this end, after conducting the quick placement test, 60 iranian efl learners were assigned to two groups with different language proficiency levels. in both groups each participant wrote two compositions, one before and one af...

A Qualitative Approach towards Implementation of Urban Sustainability in Tehran

Sustainability as a predominant paradigm of 21st century adopted as the best approach to tackle the issues which threat the environment and people’s well-being. As cities in the world are places in which most of the population in the world settles, the best way of ensuring sustainability would be by observing a set of rules and regulations. There are various sets of urban regulations, rating sy...

Reduction in defects rate using DMAIC approach- A Case Study

The paper is related to the thread manufacturing process. This work clearly identified the different problems occurring during manufacturing. In the last process (winding), DMAIC tool is applied. The reason for choosing this work is to provide a better analysis of different processes in thread manufacturing. This textile firm has large departments where the thread produced from the waste clothe...

Improved Classification of Medical Universities in Iran, a New Approach

Background: In order to check the practicality of classification of Universities of Medical Sciences (UMSs) based on their infrastructures, and scientific contributions, this study explored the most appropriate indicators to measure the size and productivity of UMSs. Methods: In the first phase, we approached a group of experts who had a deep experience in the management of UMSs and in the mini...