while sophisticated analytical methods like morgenstern-price or finite elementmethods are available for more realistic analysis of stability of slopes, assessment of the exactvalues of soil parameters is practically impossible. uncertainty in the soil parameters arisesfrom two different sources: scatter in data and systematic error inherent in the estimate of soilproperties. hence, stability o...

abstract introduction: the aim of this study validating and investigating reliability ‎of the eating attitude test (garner & garfinkel, 1979).‎ methods: 100 randomly selected student of shahid beheshti university ‎participated in this study. applied methods were: item analysis (degree of ‎difficulty, discrimination coefficient, loop method), construct validity ‎‎(confirmative factor analysis, i...

the purpose of this research was identifying mechanisms for the development of human resources in khouzestan sugarcane agro industrial company, iran. this is an applied study and the research method was descriptive correlative. the population consisted of employees working in the sugarcane agro industrial company in the province of khuzestan, iran(n=315). one hundred and seventy five people wer...

in this paper, we apply the  homotopy analysis method (ham) for solving fuzzy  linear systems and present  the necessary and sufficient conditions for the convergence of series solution obtained via the ham. also, we present a new criterion for choosing a proper value of convergence-control parameter $hbar$ when the ham is applied to linear system of equations. comparisons are made between the ...

this paper processes a combined method, based on vikor and data envelopment analysis (dea) to select the units with most efficiency. we utilize the vikor as compromise solution method. this research is a two-stage model designed to fully rank the alternatives, where each alternative has multiple inputs and outputs. the problem involves belief parameters in the solution procedure. first, the alt...

in this paper, we reconstruct the hardy-littlewood’s inequality byusing the method of the weight coefficient and the technic of real analysis includinga best constant factor. an open problem is raised.

We want to thank the authors for responding to our paper and for apprising readers as to the effects of the new information technologies in Asian educational settings. We think Miyake has characterized our argument very accurately and succinctly. As she points out the equity issues we raise are exacerbated in Asia because the resources available through new technologies are mostly in English. B...