the purpose of this article is to determine elements of strategic thinking in the context of iranian organizations and to find out the interactions and relationships among determined elements. a literature review and also in-depth interviews with experts are conducted to identify strategic thinking elements. interpretive structural modeling methodology is used for analyzing and determining the ...

the present article intends to start introduction to the political thinking of          machiavelli by passing through some key concepts in his thinking, and by placing his idea in the area of political thinking. surveying ethics in machiavelli’s political thinking needs     separate individual ethics from political (civil) one.  and explaining machiavelli’s remarks about the category of ethics...

Since the1990’s there have been multiple efforts to fix the broken pipeline at the K-12 level in computer science (CS) education [1-3], and most of those efforts have focused on the student motivational factor [4, 5]. The results of many studies in computer science education indicate that student motivation in computer science has been successfully increased by those efforts [4, 5], but most of...

background: enhancing nursing students’ critical thinking is a challenge faced by nurse educators. this study aimed at determiningthe effect of clinical concept mapping on discipline-based critical thinking of nursing students. materials and methods: in this quasi-experimental post-test only design, a convenient sample of 4th year nursing students (n = 32)participated. they were randomly divide...

conclusions due to the correlation between strategic thinking and productivity, we recommend educating and training managers in the use of strategic thinking, and that they understand its importance to productivity. managers should understand that increasing efficiency in a competitive environment today is a necessity for survival. background using different methods of strategic thinking is ess...

The debate about the medical use of cannabis in Australia has become confused with the proposal for a formal clinical trial instead of proceeding to legislation in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria. Debates about prohibition of cannabis have a long history,1 as has the proposal for medical cannabis in Australia.2 Politicians are nervous about being “soft on drugs”, ...

The impact of training or experience is not the same at all points in development. Children who receive music lessons, or learn a second language before age 7–8 are more proficient as adults. Early exposure to drugs or trauma makes people more likely to become addicted or depressed later life. Rat pups exposed to specific frequencies from 9 to 13 days post-partum show expanded cortical represen...