iranian industries are increasingly concerned with sustainable development by controlling their impacts on environment. iranian automotive industries have began conducting environmental management within a structured management system based on iso 14001 international standard since 1997. iran khodro co. (ikco), the largest iranian automotive manufacturer, implemented ems entire the company in 2...

The Stereotype Content Model (SCM) plays a prominent role in social perception research when comparing the evaluation of different targets on warmth and competence dimensions. However, there is scarce information SCM’s measurement properties. Thus, this article, we provide comprehensive test structural validity (i.e., reliability, dimensionality, cross-group comparability properties). We re-ana...

The purpose of this toxicity test was to determine the reliability and comparability of Cu++ toxicity on Gammarus fasciatus. The study was conducted to compare toxicity results for Rainbow trout, Salmo ~airdneri Richardson, another coldwater poikilotherm. Since G. fasciatus comprises a major portion of the diet of many freshwater fishes, it can be stated to be an "important" species (PATRICK et...

In this paper, we propose a new execution trace driven simulation technique, called the Resource Conflict Methodology (RCM), for modeling and simulating computer systems early in the design cycle. By using a simplified hardware element model which allows the user to easily add or delete hardware elements in the model, RCM allows the user to readily change the machine design being investigated a...

Spatial and/or temporal biases in biodiversity data can directly influence the utility, comparability, and reliability of ecological and evolutionary studies. While the effects of biased spatial coverage of biodiversity data are relatively well known, temporal variation in data quality (i.e., the congruence between recorded and actual information) has received much less attention. Here, we deve...