This research evaluates the influence of conservation organizations on the cultural model of tavy (swidden agriculture) in eastern Madagascar. It compares communities in protected and unprotected areas of eastern Madagascar, whose members have been influenced to varying degrees by the introduction of non-indigenous conservation practices. The analysis makes use of schema theory and cultural mod...

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Original scientific paper Developing a model for citizens’ satisfaction with public services is one of the effective factors for improvement of service quality. In recent years, many studies have been carried out to identify a model for citizens’ satisfaction with public sector services. In the structure of the presented models in the literature, one of the most important issues regarding organ...

Introduction: Disruptive behaviors are one of the most topics affecting the wellbeing of organizations, therefore, it has become a significant research area. The purpose of this study was to determine experiences and perceptions of nurses who were involved in disruptive behaviors. Methods: A qualitative study was conducted by using a conventional content analysis. The data was obtained through ...

Organic agriculture (OA) includes a comprehensive production management system that is considered as one of the strategies to reduce negative impacts of industrial agriculture in many countries. This research was identifying factors affecting the development of OA in Ardabil province. A descriptive– correlation survey approach was used in this study. Participants were agricultural specialists o...

Data Mining is the process of extracting useful information from large datasets. Data mining techniques till now used in business and corporate sectors may be used in agriculture for data characterization, discrimination and predictive and forecasting purposes. Data mining in agriculture is a novel research field. Recently Knowledge Management in agriculture facilitating extraction, storage, re...

analyzing the efficiency of agricultural productions plays an important role in raising their productions and performances without spending extra cost. in this studythis study evaluated were the interval evaluated e fficiency and no efficiency of interval for greenhouseof greenhouse cucumber producers somefor some subsectors of sistan region. this research was donethe study conducted on the bas...

Control and evaluation are major secrets of an organization's survival. Universities, as research and educational organizations, need to be evaluated in order to survive. The results of educational activities encompass a vast spectrum including the graduates, researchers and planners, scientific publications, as well as satisfaction of students, parents, profossors and staff (Ramsden, 1996). Th...

the purpose of this research to prioritize the factors affecting administrative corruption in government organizations using analytic network process until the arrival of prioritized dimensions to quality function deployment model, provide appropriate strategies for solving this basic organizational problem.this study is a descriptive survey research and located into the category of applied res...