results of different studies demonstrate that the world-class organizations have better performance in encountering challenges of twenty-first century. therefore developing such features is strongly recommended to iranian firms. most of experts believe that to achieve to world-class situation, the most important factor is marketing, and all organizations should assess themselves about world-cla...

the administrative system is a means of achieving the goals of political, economic, social and cultural systems of any society. it seems the nature and content of administrative management system affected by the construction and nature of governing system in every society. thus, there is a proactive relationship between these systems. therefore competency-based administrative system is equivale...

the present article, following an archetypical criticism, studies the symbolic aspect of the four elements-fire, water, earth, air- and their manifestations in ferdowsi’s shāhnāmeh. the embodiment of the essential opposition and the ultimate unification of the opposing elements is the result of the environmental subjects trying to overcome the nature. in this process, the emotional elements fin...

BACKGROUND Management pain in hospitalized children is challenging for the health-care professionals. Nurses have the most interactions with children who need to assess and manage for their pain. Therefore, the aim was to describe nurses' experiences from pain management among hospitalized children from Iranian culture in this study. METHODS A phenomenological study was conducted in which 23 ...

This paper is the third and final one in a sequence of three. All three papers emphasize that a proposition can be justified by an infinite regress, on condition that epistemic justification is interpreted probabilistically. The first two papers showed this for one-dimensional chains and for one-dimensional loops of propositions, each proposition being justified probabilistically by its precurs...

built environment does not “simply appear overnight, like a movie-set springing up on a vacant lot, but has to be produced”.thus, the first point in dealing with such an environment is considered to be the tracing of time in the evaluation of the city and keeping in mind that the whole is more than its parts. the last point becomes naturally understood when the process of city building is p...