Since the ancient times Iran has always played a significant role in the Transportation Industry due to its strategic position in the silk road that connected Asia to Europe and Middle East to .Ancient Iranians are believed to be the pioneers of land transportation in the world and transportation has always been considered as one of the most ancient and historical Industries in Iran . Nowadays ...

The process, dialogues, and attitudes of vocational engineering high school students in a web problem-based learning (WPBL) system Kuo-Hung Tseng a , Chi-Cheng Chang b & Shi-Jer Lou c a Graduate Institute of Business and Management, Meiho University, No. 23, Ping Kuang Road, Neipu Hsiang, Pingtung, Taiwan, R.O.C b Department of Technological Application and Human Resource Development, National ...

The Young Scholars Program at the Institute for Systems Research of the University of Maryland at College Park is an innovative summer research experience for high school students from Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. Its goal is to steer talented high school seniors toward higher education and careers in science and engineering. One particularly popular component of this program is a tw...

Translating R&D and inventive efforts into a market product is characterized by significant financial skills, and the ability to overcome technical and instititonal barriers. Research into and translation of new technologies such as biotechnology products to the market requires even greater resources. This paper aims to understand the key factors that foster or hinder the complex process of tra...

Over the past decade or so, aided by information and communication technologies, money laundering has seen a sharp increase. While traditionally money laundering was associated with drug cartels and warlords, increasingly the focus has shifted towards white-collar crime and terrorist financing. It is therefore important to understand why money laundering (and hence white-collar crime) comes int...

This paper extends Persson, Roland and Tabellini’s (2000) simple legislature in the context of public finance with certainty to uncertainty. In our uncertain world, oversized coalitions (OSCs) as well as minimum winning coalitions (MWCs) may arise in equilibrium, and the agenda setter’s proposed policy may fail to receive a majority support. This is in marked contrast to the certain world in wh...

In this paper we present an algorithm for semi-automatic object extraction from video sequences using multiple features. This work is part of an ongoing e ort to study video segmentation using multiple features, and the relative contribution of each one of them. For this reason, the algorithm here presented will be very simple and made up from of the shelf algorithms. We will show that even wit...

Modern complexity of management is associated with important decision making, confronting a great number of useless information. Selection of information-the choice of only quality ones, i.e. essential ones, is a big problem in management decision-making. Implementation of systemic approach i.e. dialecticalnetwork thinking (DNT) can help dealing with it. It is known that decision-making based o...