iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It gives me a great pleasure to thank all those people who have helped me and contributed for the successful completion of this work. First of all, I would like to thank my advisor Dr. Ioan Raicu for giving me the opportunity to work under him on this project. The course I took under him triggered my passion in the field of distributed systems. His constant support and encou...

aim: it seems that positive outcomes resulting from the autonomy in the job, is dependent on a number of factors. autonomy means the interdependence and freedom of staff in planning and organizing work and it has different levels. the aim of current research is to investigate the role of task reflection in relation of autonomy and skill utilization. method: the research sample consisted of 324 ...

objectives: this study aimed to identify elderly fallers and non-fallers by balance test under dual tasks conditions. methods & materials: this study was an analyze-comparative study. subjects were from three park of tehran. subjects were 20 older adults with outhistory of falls (aged 75.95±6.28 years) and 21 older adults with a history of 2 or more falls in the previous one year (aged 72.50±7....

one of the most problematic areas in foreign language learning is collocation. it is often seen as arbitrary and an overwhelming obstacle to the achievement of nativelike fluency. current second language (l2) instruction research has encouraged the use of collaborative output tasks in l2 classrooms. this study examined the effects of two types of output tasks (editing and cloze) on the learning...

Past studies suggested that decision support systems (DSS) must be an “enabling” system aiming to enhance users’ capabilities and to leverage their skills and intelligence. This suggests that users be the center of DSS and users’ characteristics be an important factor of explaining their DSS acceptance behavior. Since DSS are aimed to work in semi-structured and unstructured task environment, p...