Dealing with students of diverse majors, mathematical background and programming experience presents a challenge to interdisciplinary courses such as “Introduction to Computational Science.” The author’s solution to this problem was to base the course on a sequence of interesting and illustrative problems/projects. This approach allows the physical models, mathematical models, numerical techniq...

People in every organization could be considered as the most important resource which contributes to the development of that organization. In fact, human capital is the most important dimension of organization’s intellectual capital especially in service-oriented organizations like municipality. Therefore, the main purpose of this paper is to introduce a suitable framework for human capital eva...

While research on the spatial representation of number has provided substantial evidence for a horizontally oriented mental number line, recent studies suggest vertical organization as well. Directly comparing the relative strength of horizontal and vertical organization, however, we found no evidence of spontaneous vertical orientation (upward or downward), and horizontal trumped vertical when...

This study is to investigate how government institutions extended customer-oriented idea throughout the whole organization by means of a service system design and management. Using COSES model (customer-oriented service-enhancement system), aided by in-depth interview, to categorize service strategies collected and study public sector institution customer-oriented serving people mindset and app...

In recent decades, the concept of "recovery" from Severe Mental Illness (SMI) has gained increased prominence among organizations providing behavioral health services. Many states and organizations are currently developing plans to transform their mental health systems in accordance with recovery-oriented care. Even though efforts to bring the principles of recovery to mental health agencies ha...

For many English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers working contingently with language learners’ problematic learner contributions in classroom interaction still remains a challenge. Drawing on conversation analysis methodology and using sociocultural and situated learning theories, this longitudinal case study traces the progressional changes in one Iranian English language teacher’s repairi...

as organization developed and the control area of management increased, assessment and control of organizational units became more essential for managers. usually managers try to assess the performance of units by defining and measuring varied indexes in operational department. also this method transforms some idea to managers, but doesn't attention to interrelationship between these index...