university of tehran administers a test known as the university of tehran english proficiency test (the utept) to phd candidates on a yearly basis. by definition, the test can be considered a high-stakes one. the validity of high stakes tests needs to be known (roever, 2001). as mesick (1988) maintains, if the validity of high stakes tests are not known, it might have some undesirable consequen...

displacement coefficient method (dcm) stipulated in the asce 41-06 standard is becoming the preferred method for seismic rehabilitation of buildings in many high-seismic-hazard countries. applications of the method for non-building constructions such as bridges are beyond the scope of this standard. thus its application to this kind of structure should be approached with care. target displaceme...

objective: the forgivingness questionnaire has been designed to assessforgivingness in a variety of cultural contexts. this questionnaire was based on common western conceptualizations of forgiveness. in western communities, when one is the victim of an intentional offense, a feeling of resentment seems logical. the intensity and duration of this feeling of resentment usually depends on the cir...

in order to increase the efficiency of the conveyance of the granular solids, a new experimental set-up is designed. the test rig has longitudinal trapezoidal slots in its conveying pipes. through experimentation, a correlation for friction factor in terms of solid mass flow rate, fluid flow rate and froude number is presented. it is shown that the mixture friction factor for pipes with inner t...

conclusions the nursing workload is influenced by many factors. the clear responsibilities and authorities of nurses, patients' admission according to the capacity of wards, use of the new technologies and equipment, and providing basic training for new nurses can decrease the workload of nurses. results twenty-five factors were divided into three major categories through efa, including structu...

the present study pursued two goals: first, to discover the subscales underlying the teacher status scale (tss); and second, to reveal the status of the teachers of persian, arabic, and english in iranian junior high school students’ perceptions in order to determine the relative roles of national, religious, and western influences in the identity construction of the students. the data was coll...

background: beck scale for suicidal ideation (bssi) is a widely used instrument to assess suicidality. however, there is only limited information about the psychometric characteristics of bssi in the persian language. in this study, we investigated the validity, reliability and factor structure of the bssi in the general population of tehran.   methods : initially, 900 questionnaire packages we...

statistics and reports from the countries have strong film industry shows the impact of film industry growth, activities and services on national economics. development of this industry on the one hand providing dynamic employment and gdp growth and on the other hand influence indirectly on related industries such as the media and television, advertising, hardware and software industries, touri...

business cost is acknowledged as one of the priorities in smes research. in thisstudy, the business cost of smes in shanghai was primarily measured using factor-entropy analysis method. the purpose of this study is to effectively resolve the issueof simplification and assignment evaluation index system on business costs of smesin shanghai. however, this study uses factor analysis to interpret t...