background & purpose: promotion of postgraduate medical education (pgme) is constantly one of the main concerns’ for medical education policy makers because of the key role of residents and graduated specialists/subspecialists in health care system. this study aimed to determine challenges, and potential solutions for promoting the pgme in iran by exploring the expert’s implicit knowledge.  met...

Constructing a planner for a particular application is a diicult job, for which little concrete support is currently available. The literature on planning is overwhelming and there is no clear synthesis of the various planning methods which could be used by knowledge engineers. In this paper, we show how a general, knowledge-level framework for conceptually specifying knowledge-based systems, c...

In this paper, we present an analysis of planning with uncertain information regarding both the state of the world and the eeects of actions using a Strips-or (propositional) Adl-style representation 4, 17]. We provide formal deenitions of plans under incomplete information and conditional plans, and describe Plinth, a conditional linear planner based on these deenitions. We also clarify the de...

Purpose: After sales service includes a wide range of services and provides the basis for long and easy use of the product. The present study was conducted with the aim of designing after sales service curriculum pattern of automobile industry in Iran. Methodology: This was a mixed exploratory study (qualitative and quantitative). The research population in both qualitative and quantitative pa...

This study aimed at investigating the effect of instructional YouTube videos on Iranian male and female EFL learners' listening comprehension. It was conducted with 60 male and female intermediate male and female EFL learners. The Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) was used to measure the participants’ language proficiency to make sure about homogeneity of the participants. The participants wer...